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The struggle for control of the modern corporation : organizational change at General Motors, 1924-1970
Freeland, Robert F., 1957-

Publisher:	Cambridge University Press,
Pub date:	2006, c2001.
Pages:	xvii, 364 p. :
ISBN:	0521677912
Copy info:	1 copy available in CIRC1. 1 copy total in all locations.

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Call number	Copies	Material	Location
HD9710 .U54 G397 2006	1	Book	Main Library - Circulating Collection - 1st Fl.

Summary

Winner of the 2005 Business History Review Newcomen Award for best book in business history, The Struggle for Control of the Modern Corporation provides a fascinating historical overview of decision-making and political struggle within a titan of American enterprise, General Motors. Book jacket. Distributed by Syndetic Solutions, Inc.

Author Biography

Robert F. Freeland is Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Wisconsin Distributed by Syndetic Solutions, Inc.

Table of Contents

List of Figures and Tables	x
Acknowledgments	xiii
1 The Modern Corporation and the Problem of Order	1
2 Creating Corporate Order: Conflicting Versions of Decentralization at GM, 1921-1933	43
3 Administrative Centralization of the M-form, 1934-1941	81
4 Participative Decentralization Redefined: Mobilizing for War Production, 1941-1945	127
5 The Split between Finance and Operations: Postwar Problems and Organization Structure, 1945-1948	175
6 Consent as an Organizational Weapon: Coalition Politics and the Destruction of Cooperation, 1948-1958	223
7 Consent Destroyed: The Decline and Fall of General Motors, 1958-1980	271
8 Conclusion	295
Appendix General Motors' Financial Performance, 1921-1987	324
References	340
Index	355

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ISBN:	0521677912 (pbk.)
ISBN:	9780521677912 (pbk.)
ISBN:	0521630347
ISBN:	9780521630344
LC call number:	HD9710.U54 G397 2006
Personal author:	Freeland, Robert F., 1957-
Title:	The struggle for control of the modern corporation : organizational change at General Motors, 1924-1970 / Robert F. Freeland.
Edition:	1st pbk. ed.
Publication info:	Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2006, c2001.
Physical description:	xvii, 364 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Series:	(Structural analysis in the social sciences ; 17)
Bibliography note:	Includes bibliographical references (p. 340-353) and index.
Corporate subject:	General Motors Corporation--Management.
Subject:	Organizational change.
Subject:	Industrial management.
Electronic access:	Publisher description http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0659/2006275862-d.html
Electronic access:	Table of contents http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0659/2006275862-t.html
Electronic access:	Contributor biographical information http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0732/2006275862-b.html