Organizing America
| Titel: | Organizing America : wealth, power, and the origins of corporate capitalism / Charles Perrow |
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| Veröffentlicht: | Princeton, N.J. : Princeton Univ. Press, 2002 |
| Umfang: | VII, 259 S. |
| Format: | E-Book |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
| RVK-Notation: | Vorliegende Ausgabe: | Online-Ausg.: 2003. - Online-Ressource. |
| ISBN: | 1400814537 (Sekundärausgabe) |
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X
- Acknowledgments
- p. ix
- Chapter1
- Introduction
- p. 1
- Some Central Concepts
- p. 3
- Density and concentration
- p. 3
- Size and small-firm networks
- p. 4
- Organizations or capitalism
- p. 6
- Noneconomic organizations
- p. 7
- Power
- p. 8
- Culture and other shapers of society
- p. 9
- Organizations as the independent variable
- p. 10
- What Do Organizations Do?
- p. 12
- What Kind of Organizations?
- p. 16
- Alternative Theories
- p. 17
- Conclusion
- p. 19
- Chapter2
- Preparing the Ground
- p. 22
- Communities, Markets, Hierarchies, and Networks
- p. 22
- Community
- p. 23
- The market direction
- p. 25
- Toward hierarchy and networks
- p. 28
- The Legal Revolution that Launched Organizations
- p. 31
- Fear of corporations
- p. 33
- What organizations need to be able to do
- p. 35
- Making capitalism corporate
- p. 36
- Capitalism to Corporate Capitalism
- p. 40
- Lawyers: "The Shock Troops of Capitalism"
- p. 43
- Chapter3
- Toward Hierarchy: The Mills of Manayunk
- p. 48
- Getting the Factory Going: The Role of Labor Control
- p. 48
- The first mill-a workhouse
- p. 50
- To mechanize or not?
- p. 51
- Social Consequences
- p. 53
- Labor Policies and Strikes
- p. 58
- Organizations and Religion
- p. 60
- From Working Classes to a Working Class
- p. 61
- The politics of class
- p. 62
- Conclusion
- p. 63
- Chapter4
- Toward Hierarchy and Networks
- p. 65
- Lowell and the Boston Associates
- p. 65
- Wage dependence and labor control
- p. 65
- Lowell I: The benign phase
- p. 67
- Profits and market control
- p. 69
- Lowell II: The exploitive phase
- p. 70
- Explaining the First Modern Business
- p. 75
- Structural constraints
- p. 77
- The Slater Model
- p. 79
- Toward Networks with the Philadelphia Model
- p. 81
- When capital counts
- p. 82
- Philadelphia's large mills
- p. 84
- Size and technology
- p. 86
- Networks of Firms
- p. 88
- Labor conflict
- p. 90
- Externalities
- p. 90
- The Decline of Textile Firms
- p. 92
- Summary
- p. 94
- Chapter5
- Railroads, the Second Big Business
- p. 96
- Railroads in France, Britain, and the United States: The Organizational Logic
- p. 102
- France
- p. 104
- Britain
- p. 108
- The importance of the railroads
- p. 111
- Why Were the Railroads Unregulated and Privatized?
- p. 113
- The efficiency argument
- p. 115
- Historical institutionalism
- p. 117
- Historical institutionalism assessed
- p. 122
- The neoinstitutionalist account
- p. 123
- The organization interest account
- p. 127
- The details
- p. 129
- Self-interested opposition to the railroads
- p. 139
- Corruption Observed but Not Interpreted
- p. 141
- Evidence from the public record, and the outcry
- p. 144
- Scholars explain corruption
- p. 151
- Summary and Conclusions
- p. 157
- Chapter6
- The Organizational Imprinting
- p. 160
- Making the Railroads Work
- p. 160
- Divisionalization
- p. 161
- Finance takes charge
- p. 162
- Inevitable, or a chance path?
- p. 165
- Contracting out
- p. 166
- Leadership Style and Worker Welfare
- p. 173
- Work in general
- p. 175
- Nationalization and Centralization: The Final Spike
- p. 179
- Organizational versus political interpretations
- p. 180
- Where did the money come from?
- p. 183
- Regionalization versus Nationalization
- p. 186
- The debate over the ethos
- p. 187
- A political or an organizational interpretation of the struggle?
- p. 192
- Was Regionalism Viable?
- p. 194
- Concentrating Capital and Power
- p. 196
- The corporate form triumphs
- p. 197
- Explaining the arrival of the corporate form
- p. 201
- An organizational agency account
- p. 204
- Summary and Conclusions
- p. 212
- Chapter7
- Summary and Conclusions
- p. 217
- Appendix Alternative Theories Where Organizations Are the Dependent Variable
- p. 229
- Notes
- p. 237
- Bibliography
- p. 243
- Index 251
