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Remaking the Industrial Corporation
Nitin Nohria, Davis Dyer, Frederick Dalzell
ISBN: 9780471384816
Format: Hardback
Publisher:John Wiley and Sons Ltd
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In 1973, Westinghouse and its longtime rival, General Electric, ranked among the strongest companies in the American economy. By the late 1990s, Westinghouse had disappeared from the economic landscape, whereas GE posted sales of $100 billion and employed nearly 300,000 people. Both companies faced common external challenges…
One of the first books to address the role large corporations will play in the coming century Over the last twenty-five years, an enormous change has occurred in the landscape of business-the rise and decline of the industrial corporation. Changing Fortunes examines this evolution and looks ahead to what it means for owners, managers, employees, and the public. A well-written business history from a rising star at Harvard Business School and two business historians, this book portrays the dramatic shifts in strategy that America's biggest companies (i.e., GE, IBM) underwent in moving from an industrial to a postindustrial economy. It also offers a forward look at their place in a changing economy.
| ISBN | 047138481X | | Pages | 336 | | ISBN13 | 9780471384816
(What's this?) | | Volumes | 1 | | Publisher | John Wiley and Sons Ltd | | Weight (grammes) | 610 | | Imprint | John Wiley & Sons Inc | | Published in | New York | | Format | Hardback | | Series title | IGN "TOP250" Red Series Maps | | Publication date | 24 Apr 2002 | | Height (mm) | 241 | | Library of Congress | HD2785.N64 | | Width (mm) | 163 | | DEWEY | 338.740973 | | Spine width (mm) | 29 | | DEWEY edition | DC21 | | Academic level | Undergraduate, Postgraduate, Professional / Scholarly |
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| | | Preface | | | | Ch. 1 | | The Ordeal of the Industrial Economy | | 1 | | Ch. 2 | | Passages and Patterns | | 35 | | Ch. 3 | | Strategy: Coping with the End of Growth | | 61 | | Ch. 4 | | Structure: Crumbling Walls | | 97 | | Ch. 5 | | Systems: Intelligence Unbound | | 129 | | Ch. 6 | | Governance: The Tighter Leash | | 161 | | Ch. 7 | | Fraying Loyalties | | 195 | | Ch. 8 | | The Churning Mix: The Changing Nature of the Largest American Companies | | 219 | | Ch. 9 | | The Industrial Corporation in a Post-Industrial Age | | 257 | | | | Acknowledgments | | 283 | | | | Notes | | 285 | | | | Index | | 311 |
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