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Control through Communication: The Rise of System in American Management
Joanne Yates
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Description for Control through Communication: The Rise of System in American Management
Paperback. The recipient of the Society of American Archivists' Waldo Gifford Leland Prize and the Association for Business Communication's Alpha Kappa Psi Award for Distinguished Publication on Business Communication, Yates discusses how modern managerial systems evolved within the American business system. Series: Studies in Industry and Society. Num Pages: 370 pages, 50, 50 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; GTC; KJP; KJQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 156 x 230 x 20. Weight in Grams: 528.
A superb historical analysis of the philosophical and technological forces that led to the development of communication genres and processes in the modern American corporation.
A superb historical analysis of the philosophical and technological forces that led to the development of communication genres and processes in the modern American corporation.
Product Details
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press
Number of pages
368
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1993
Series
Studies in Industry and Society
Condition
New
Weight
532g
Number of Pages
368
Place of Publication
Baltimore, MD, United States
ISBN
9780801846137
SKU
V9780801846137
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About Joanne Yates
JoAnne Yates, Deputy Dean and Distinguished Professor of Management at the MIT Sloan School of Management, is the author of Control Through Communication: The Rise of System in American Management, also published by Johns Hopkins.
Reviews for Control through Communication: The Rise of System in American Management
[This book's] timeliness is remarkable. Now that the Western system of responsible (that is, profit-based) production has emerged as the victor over command economies, the secrets of how we did it may replace foreign relations as 'topic A' at conferences, and historians who continue to reject 'material civilization' as unworthy of genuine scholars will do so at their peril.
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