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Introduction--Strategy and Structure | |
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Motives and Methods | |
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Some General Propositions | |
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Historical Setting | |
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The Beginnings of Business Administration in the United States | |
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The Coming of the Integrated, Multidepartmental Enterprise | |
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Integration via Combination and Consolidation | |
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Organization Building | |
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Further Growth--The Coming of the Multidivisional Enterprise | |
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Du Pont--Creating the Autonomous Divisions | |
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The Centralized Structure | |
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The Strategy of Consolidation | |
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Creating the Multidepartmental Structure | |
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Structural Modifications--1903-1919 | |
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Further Centralization--1919 | |
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The Strategy of Diversification | |
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Initial Steps Toward Diversification | |
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Intensified Pressures for Diversification | |
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The Final Definition of the Strategy of Diversification | |
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New Structure for the New Strategy | |
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New Problems Created by New Strategy | |
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The Problems Analyzed | |
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A New Structure Proposed and Rejected | |
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A Compromise Structure Adopted | |
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Crisis and the Acceptance of the Multidivisional Structure | |
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General Motors--Creating the General Office | |
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The Durant Strategy | |
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The Sources of Durant's Strategy | |
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The Creation of General Motors | |
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The Storrow Regime | |
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Durant's Return and Renewed Expansion and Integration | |
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Du Pont Contributions to Durant's Organization | |
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The Crisis of 1920 | |
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The Sloan Structure | |
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The Sources of Sloan's Structure | |
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The "Organization Study" | |
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Minor Modifications | |
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Putting the New Structure into Operation | |
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Defining Divisional Boundaries | |
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The Development of Statistical and Financial Controls | |
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Defining the Role of the Advisory Staff | |
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The Role of the Executive Committee | |
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The Finished Structure | |
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A Comparison of Organization Building at General Motors and du Pont | |
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Standard Oil Company (New Jersey)--Ad Hoc Reorganization | |
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Structure and Strategy Before 1925 | |
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The Strategy of Vertical Integration and Continued Expansion | |
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Vertical Integration and the Creation of New Functional Departments | |
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Expansion and the Older Departments | |
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The Growth of Staff Departments | |
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The Board | |
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Initial Awareness of Structural Weaknesses | |
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The Initial Reorganization--1925-1926 | |
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Teagle's Troubles | |
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The 1925 "Program" | |
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The Coordination Department and Committee | |
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The Budget Department and Committee | |
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Reorganizing the Marketing Department | |
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Reorganizing the Manufacturing Department | |
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The Creation of the Multidivisional, "Decentralized" Structure | |
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Continuing Difficulties | |
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The 1927 Changes | |
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Working Out the New Structure | |
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Some Final Considerations | |
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Sears, Roebuck and Company--Decentralization, Planned and Unplanned | |
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Changing Strategy and Structure | |
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Initial Strategy and Structure | |
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The New Strategy | |
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Structural Strains Created by the New Strategy | |
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Abortive Decentralization | |
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The Frazer Committee | |
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The Committee's Proposals | |
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Carrying Out the Committee's Proposals | |
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Frazer Reviews the New Structure | |
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Continuing Conflict and Resulting Proposals | |
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The Territorial Organization Scrapped | |
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Evolutionary Decentralization | |
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The Centralized Retail Organization | |
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Decentralization of the Retail Organization | |
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The Growth of Local Regional Administrative Units | |
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The Return to the Territorial Organization | |
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The Final Structure | |
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Organizational Innovation--A Comparative Analysis | |
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The Adaptive Response | |
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Building the Functional Departments | |
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Building the Central Office | |
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The Creative Innovation | |
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The Conditions for Innovation | |
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The Process of Innovation | |
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The Significance of the Innovation | |
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Organizational Innovators | |
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An Organization Builder's Personality and Training | |
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Sources of Information | |
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The Spread of the Multidivisional Structure | |
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Industries Not Accepting the New Structure | |
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Copper and Nickel | |
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Steel | |
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Aluminum | |
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Materials | |
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Industries Partially Accepting the New Structure | |
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Processors of Agricultural Products | |
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Rubber | |
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Petroleum | |
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Industries Widely Accepting the New Structure | |
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Electrical and Electronics | |
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Power Machinery and Automobiles | |
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Chemicals | |
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Variations on Structural Change | |
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The Merchandising Enterprises | |
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Summary of the Process of Structural Change within the Enterprise | |
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Conclusion--Chapters in the History of the Great Industrial Enterprise | |
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The First Chapter--Accumulating Resources | |
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The Second Chapter--Rationalizing the Use of Resources | |
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The Third Chapter--Continued Growth | |
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The Fourth Chapter--Rationalizing the Use of Expanding Resources | |
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References | |
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Notes | |
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Index | |