The Struggle for Control of the Modern Corporation Organizational Change at General Motors, 1924–1970
Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Figures and Tables
- Acknowledgments
- 1 The Modern Corporation and the Problem of Order
- 2 Creating Corporate Order: Conflicting Versions of Decentralization at GM, 1921–1933
- 3 Administrative Centralization of the M-form, 1934–1941
- 4 Participative Decentralization Redefined: Mobilizing for War Production, 1941–1945
- 5 The Split between Finance and Operations: Postwar Problems and Organization Structure, 1945–1948
- 6 Consent as an Organizational Weapon: Coalition Politics and the Destruction of Cooperation, 1948–1958
- 7 Consent Destroyed: The Decline and Fall of General Motors, 1958–1980
- 8 Conclusion
- Appendix: General Motors' Financial Performance, 1921–1987
- References
- Index
Index
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 August 2011
Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Figures and Tables
- Acknowledgments
- 1 The Modern Corporation and the Problem of Order
- 2 Creating Corporate Order: Conflicting Versions of Decentralization at GM, 1921–1933
- 3 Administrative Centralization of the M-form, 1934–1941
- 4 Participative Decentralization Redefined: Mobilizing for War Production, 1941–1945
- 5 The Split between Finance and Operations: Postwar Problems and Organization Structure, 1945–1948
- 6 Consent as an Organizational Weapon: Coalition Politics and the Destruction of Cooperation, 1948–1958
- 7 Consent Destroyed: The Decline and Fall of General Motors, 1958–1980
- 8 Conclusion
- Appendix: General Motors' Financial Performance, 1921–1987
- References
- Index
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- The Struggle for Control of the Modern CorporationOrganizational Change at General Motors, 1924–1970, pp. 355 - 364Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2000