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The modern business enterprise: selected readings;

Title
The modern business enterprise: selected readings; edited by M. Gilbert.
Author
Gilbert, Michael (Michael D. M.)
Publication
Harmondsworth, Penguin, 1972.

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461 pages illustrations; 20 cm
Summary
Compilation of interdisciplinary research readings on the modern enterprise and its business organization, particularly in the USA and the UK - covers ownership and control, mergers, workers participation, corporate goals and policies, decision making and organizational processes, information processing, the economic and political power of the large firm, monopolys and multinational enterprises, etc. References.
Series Statement
  • Penguin education
  • Penguin interdisciplinary readings
Uniform Title
  • Penguin Education.
  • Penguin interdisciplinary readings.
Subject
  • Corporations
  • Business enterprises
  • corporations
  • Business enterprises
  • Corporations
  • interdisciplinary research
  • enterprise
  • business organization
  • ownership
  • merger
  • workers participation
  • decision making
  • information processing
  • political power
  • monopoly
  • multinational enterprise
  • Entreprises
  • recherche interdisciplinaire
  • entreprise
  • organisation de l'entreprise
  • propriété
  • fusion d'entreprises
  • participation des travailleurs
  • prise de décision
  • traitement de l'information
  • pouvoir politique
  • monopole
  • entreprise multinationale
  • investigación interdisciplinaria
  • empresa
  • organización de la empresa
  • propiedad
  • fusión de empresas
  • participación de los trabajadores
  • toma de decisiones
  • procesamiento de la información
  • poder político
  • monopolio
  • empresa multinacional
  • United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
  • USA
  • Etats-Unis
  • Royaume-Uni de Grande-Bretagne et d'Irlande du Nord
  • Estados Unidos
  • Reino Unido de Gran Bretaña e Irlanda del Norte
Genre/Form
  • reference.
  • référence bibliographique.
  • referencia.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographies and index.
Contents
Historical inheritance of American corporations / A.A. Berle -- Anti-trust and the classical model / S. Peterson -- Modern organization theory / D.S. Pugh -- On the plurality of social systems / T. Burns -- The corporation / J.K. Galbraith -- The separation of ownership from control / C.S. Beed -- Mergers and the market for corporate control / H. Manne -- Workers participation : a critical view / G. Strauss and E. Rosenstein -- Consensus or elite domination / J.P. Nettl -- A model of the managerial enterprise / R.L. Marris -- Managerial discretion and business behavior / O.E. Williamson -- Organizational goals / R.M. Cyert and J.G. March -- Organization theory : decision-making in organizational contexts / N.P. Mouzelis -- Information processing for decision-making / M. Alexis and T. Wilson -- Mechanistic and organic systems of management / T. Burns and G. Stalker -- A theory of large managerial firms / R. Monsen and A. Downs -- The corporation, how much power? What scope? / C. Kaysen -- Militarism and imperialism / P. Baran and P.M. Sweezy -- Politics and the corporation / A. Hacker -- The power of business / R. Miliband.
ISBN
  • 0140807225
  • 9780140807226
LCCN
73179420
OCLC
  • ocm00798348
  • 798348
  • SCSB-210543
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library