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Author Perrow, Charles.

Title Organizing America : wealth, power, and the origins of corporate capitalism / Charles Perrow.

Publication Info. Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2005.
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Description 1 online resource (272 pages) : illustrations
Physical Medium polychrome
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Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 243-249) and index.
Summary American society today is shaped not nearly as much by vast open spaces as it is by vast, bureaucratic organizations. Over half the working population toils away at enterprises with 500 or more employees--up from zero percent in 1800. Is this institutional immensity the logical outcome of technological forces in an all-efficient market, as some have argued? In this book, the first organizational history of nineteenth-century America, Yale sociologist Charles Perrow says no. He shows that there was nothing inevitable about the surge in corporate size and power by century's end. Critics railed a.
Contents CONTENTS; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; CHAPTER 1 Introduction; CHAPTER 2 Preparing the Ground; CHAPTER 3 Toward Hierarchy: The Mills of Manayunk; CHAPTER 4 Toward Hierarchy and Networks; CHAPTER 5 Railroads, the Second Big Business; CHAPTER 6 The Organizational Imprinting; CHAPTER 7 Summary and Conclusion; APPENDIX Alternative Theories Where Organizations Are the Dependent Variable; NOTES; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX.
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Subject Organizational behavior -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
Organizational behavior.
United States.
History.
Chronological Term 19th century
Subject Big business -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
Big business.
Social change -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
Social change.
Chronological Term 1800 - 1899
Genre/Form Electronic books.
History.
Electronic books -- History.
Other Form: Print version: Perrow, Charles. Organizing America. Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2005 9780691123158 (OCoLC)57750567
ISBN 9781400825080 (electronic book)
1400825083 (electronic book)

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