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GM Passes Ford Designing the General Motors Performance-Control System

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ISBN-10: 0271004320

ISBN-13: 9780271004327

Edition: 1986

Authors: Arthur Kuhn

List price: $45.95
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The dramatic story of how upstart General Motors got ahead of pioneer Ford--and has stayed ahead--is told here along with an explanation of GM's success. This book argues that GM won the race by designing a successful performance-control system, in harmony with cybernetic principles and systems theory, under the leadership of Alfred Sloan and his expert team. Henry Ford, the passionate individualist, meanwhile established a losing tradition described by the author as anti-team, anti-expert, and anti-system. GM's recent difficulties, according to Dr. Kuhn, are a result of its lapse from early policies.In 1921 Ford held the largest share of a market ever attained by a single manufacturer,…    
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Book details

List price: $45.95
Copyright year: 1986
Publisher: Pennsylvania State University Press
Publication date: 10/1/1990
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 464
Size: 6.50" wide x 9.50" long x 1.50" tall
Weight: 1.738
Language: English

Arthur J. Kuhn is Senior Administrative Analyst, Office of Institutional Research, University of California, Berkeley. He previously taught in the Graduate School of Business Administration at Duke University, after earning his PhD in organizational theory at Berkeley.