Alfred P. Sloan: Critical Evaluations in Business and ManagementJohn Cunningham Wood, Michael C. Wood Taylor & Francis, 2003 - 472 pages This two-volume collection looks at the life and work of Alfred Pritchard Sloan, Jr. (1875-1966), chief executive of General Motors from 1923 to 1946, whose unique and ahead-of-its-time management style left an indelible mark on business and management studies.Also featuring an extensive bibliography, this set will prove valuable to business students and researchers alike. |
Table des matières
WOOD AND MICHAEL C WOOD | 8 |
Smith battles Sloans legacy 369 | 14 |
VOLUME I | 23 |
Bruce Barton Alfred Sloan | 48 |
PART 5 | 87 |
how two mighty corporations tried to stifle | 91 |
tuning | 101 |
tuningup General Motors | 144 |
The fable of Fisher Body | 253 |
FisherGeneral Motors and the nature of the firm | 289 |
Employee relations | 307 |
an historical analysis | 329 |
GM and public transport | 377 |
Contributions to administration by Alfred P Sloan Jr | 384 |
a comparative analysis | 411 |
General Motors and the demise of streetcars | 414 |
PART 7 | 154 |
physical regulation contrasted | 160 |
Markets networks and the rise of Chrysler in old Detroit | 218 |
General Motors and mass transit again | 439 |
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acquisition administrative Alfred Alfred Sloan Argentina assembly assets auto Automotive Industries BBDO Bruce Barton budget Buick Business History Review Cadillac campaign capital cash central Chandler Charles Kettering Chevrolet Chrysler Corporation Coase competitive comptroller contract coordination cost dealers decentralized Detroit divisional Durant Motors Durant's Economic employees engineering estimated expenses factory firms Fisher Body Fisher brothers Flint Frigidaire GM's Henry Ford holdup increased innovation institutional advertising inventory investments JWT archives JWT's Kettering Klein labor manufacturing division materials merger month Motors Corporation Oldsmobile operating organization organizational percent Pierre du Pont plant Plymouth president problems production profit purchase relationship Salsbury Saturday Evening Post schedule Sloan specific staff strategy structure suppliers supply supra note tion United vertical integration vice-president voting trust Walter Walter Chrysler York