Control Through Communication: The Rise of System in American ManagementJHU Press, 1993 - 339 pagina's Winner of the Waldo Gifford Leland Prize from the Society of American ArchivistsWinner of the Alpha Kappa Psi Foundation Award for Distinguished Publication on Business Communication from the Association for Business Communication Caught in the midst of an information revolution, today's business managers and scholars are trying to assess the likely effects of the sweeping changes now taking place in technolocy and in organization. In Control through Communication JoAnne Yates looks back to the last major shift in the use of communication and information-and writes the first full and detailed account of the process by which modern managerical systems came to be created within the American business system. Focusing on the evolution of corporate communication as an integrated whole, Yates examines its functions, technologies, and genres in case studies of the Illinois Central Railroad, Scovill Manufacturing Company, and E. I. du Pont de Nemours & Company. |
Inhoudsopgave
Managerial Methods and the Functions | 1 |
Communication Technology and the Growth | 21 |
Genres of Internal Communication | 65 |
The Illinois Central before 1887 | 101 |
The Illinois Central after 1887 | 133 |
Gradual Systematization at Scovill | 159 |
Du Ponts First Century | 201 |
Du Pont 19021920 | 217 |
Conclusion | 271 |
A Note on Archival Sources | 329 |
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Control Through Communication: The Rise of System in American Management JoAnne Yates Fragmentweergave - 1989 |
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