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Scale and Scope
Scale and Scope is Alfred Chandler's first major work since his Pulitzer Prize-winning The Visible Hand.Representing ten years of research into the history of the managerial business system, this book concentrates on patterns of growth and competitiveness in the United States, Germany, and Great Britain, tracing the evolution of large firms into.
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The decoded company : know your talent better than you know your customers
\"Google amazes us by generating answers before we even finish asking a question. Netflix delights us with spot-on recommendations. These companies use the power of Big Data-the collection and analysis of massive amounts of information. It's one of the hottest concepts in business. But while many companies are embracing Big Data to understand their customers, very few are applying it to their own employees. One of the pioneers in that effort has been acclaimed digital marketing agency Klick Health. Now Klick's leaders share the principles that guided their fast growth and low turnover. Klick CEO Leerom Segal and his colleagues show how personalizing each employee's experience can increase their engagement, help them learn new skills faster, and be placed with the right teams. The authors outline the three transformative ideas they've developed for \"decoding\" any company or department-figuring out what really makes it tick, so you can maximize its potential. The authors share success stories from Klick and other organizations, and offer a bold new approach to designing and managing a workplace. The result is a groundbreaking book for any company that wants the best from its people\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Organizing America
American society today is shaped not nearly as much by vast open spaces as it is by vast, bureaucratic organizations. Over half the working population toils away at enterprises with 500 or more employees--up from zero percent in 1800. Is this institutional immensity the logical outcome of technological forces in an all-efficient market, as some have argued? In this book, the first organizational history of nineteenth-century America, Yale sociologist Charles Perrow says no. He shows that there was nothing inevitable about the surge in corporate size and power by century's end. Critics railed against the nationalizing of the economy, against corporations' monopoly powers, political subversion, environmental destruction, and \"wage slavery.\" How did a nation committed to individual freedom, family firms, public goods, and decentralized power become transformed in one century?
Bountiful resources, a mass market, and the industrial revolution gave entrepreneurs broad scope. In Europe, the state and the church kept private organizations small and required consideration of the public good. In America, the courts and business-steeped legislators removed regulatory constraints over the century, centralizing industry and privatizing the railroads. Despite resistance, the corporate form became the model for the next century. Bureaucratic structure spread to government and the nonprofits. Writing in the tradition of Max Weber, Perrow concludes that the driving force of our history is not technology, politics, or culture, but large, bureaucratic organizations.
Perrow, the author of award-winning books on organizations, employs his witty, trenchant, and graceful style here to maximum effect. Colorful vignettes abound: today's headlines echo past battles for unchecked organizational freedom; socially responsible alternatives that were tried are explored along with the historical contingencies that sent us down one road rather than another. No other book takes the role of organizations in America's development as seriously. The resultant insights presage a new historical genre.
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Too big to ignore : the business case for big data
Residents in Boston, Massachusetts, are automatically reporting potholes and road hazards via their smartphones. Google accurately predicts local flu outbreaks based upon thousands of user search queries. Amazon provides remarkably insightful, relevant, and timely product recommendations to its hundreds of millions of customers. But how do these organizations and municipalities do it? 'Too Big To Ignore' explains how organisations can reap massive benefits from analyzing today's new and emerging types of data.
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Globalization and the Cultures of Business in Africa
Can Africa develop businesses beyond the extractive or agricultural sectors? What would it take for Africa to play a major role in global business? By focusing on recent changes, Scott D. Taylor demonstrates how Africa's business culture is marked by an unprecedented receptivity to private enterprise. Challenging persistent stereotypes about crony capitalism and the lack of development, Taylor reveals a long and dynamic history of business in Africa. He shows how a hospitable climate for business has been spurred by institutional change, globalization, and political and economic reform. Taylor encourages a broader understanding of the mosaic of African business and the diversity of influences and cultures that shape it.
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Corporation Nation
From bank bailouts and corporate scandals to the financial panic of 2008 and its lingering effects, corporate governance in America has been wracked with crises. Amid a weakening system of checks and balances in which corporate executives have little incentive to protect shareholder interests, U.S. corporations are growing larger and more irresponsible at the same time. But dependence on corporate profit was crucial to the early republic's growth, success, and security: despite protests that incorporated business was an inefficient and potentially corrupting system, U.S. state governments chartered more corporations per capita than any other nation-including Britain-effectively making the United States a \"corporation nation.\" Drawing on legal and economic history, Robert E. Wright traces the development and decline of corporate institutions in America, connecting today's financial failures to deteriorating corporate law.In the nineteenth century, checks and balances kept managerial interests aligned with those of stockholders, and public opinion grew supportive as corporations raised billions of dollars to finance infrastructure such as transportation networks, financial systems, and manufacturing operations. But many of these checks and balances were dismantled after the Civil War, allowing leeway for the managerial malfeasance that spiraled into economic crisis in the twenty-first century. Bolstered with archival and original data, including the first complete count of American business corporations before the Civil War,Corporation Nationmakes a compelling argument for improved internal governance and more effective external government regulation.
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Big data for big decisions : building a data-driven organization
\"While every enterprise aspires to becomes100% data-driven, the Gartner Group estimates over 80% of all analytics projects fail to deliver intended value. This is a practitioners' guide for creating a transformational roadmap, prioritize Big Data for big decisions, and deliver value from analytics\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Big businesses versus institutions for entrepreneurship: new firm creation and growth in China
This study on entrepreneurship in China compares the relative importance of institutions with that of a new and less studied variable—big businesses. This study considers two aspects of entrepreneurship: new firm creation and new firm growth. Regression analyses are conducted using province-year panel data from 174 observations. We first find some evidence of positive but diminishing marginal impacts of the aggregate index representing institutional development on new firm creation and growth. Second, we confirm the robust impact of the greater presence of big businesses in a province on the sales of new firms, measured by the sales sum of new firms per population in each province. This result is consistent with the linkage effect, whereby big businesses build their supply chains and promote new firms to be their suppliers. We find no evidence of a net barrier-to-entry effect of big businesses on new firm creation, suggesting that positive spillover effects tend to offset negative barrier-to-entry effects on new firm creation. In terms of policy implications, the results suggest that for an economy at the middle-income stage, promoting big businesses is justified as it has no negative effects on new firm creation, while it positively affects new firm growth.
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Is a strong presence of big businesses in an economy beneficial or detrimental to the emergence and growth of new firms? Although the relationship might initially seem negative due to barriers to entry and the concentration of tangible and intangible resources within big businesses, there could also be positive spillovers. These include the mobility and transfer of talent and technologies, business venturing and the creation of spinoff startups, and the inclusion of small or new firms as suppliers. Utilizing data from China, this paper confirms the robust and positive impact of big businesses on the growth of new firms and finds no evidence of a barrier-to-entry effect of big businesses on new firm creation. One implication is that promoting big businesses in the early stages of development in emerging economies has no negative effects.
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