Alfred P. Sloan - Critical Evaluations in Business and Management (Hardcover)

Contents:
The Founders of GM
1. J.B. Rae The fabulous Billy Durant, Business History Review, 32, 3: 255-271 [1958]
2. R. Marchand The corporation nobody knew: Bruce Barton, Alfred Sloan, and the founding of the General Motors 'family.', Business History Review, 65, 4: 825-875 [1991]
3. D. Seligman Prior restraint: how two mighty corporations tried to stifle a masterpiece, Forbes, 162: 74-82 [1998]
1920s Reorganization at GM
4. D. Brown Pricing policy in relation to financial control, Management and Administration, 283-286 [1924]
5. T. B. Fordham and E. H. Tingley The compilation of a budget - control through organization and budget -article 2, Management and Administration, 7, 1-3: 57-62, 205-208, 291-294 [1924]
6. C. S. Mott Organizing a great industrial, Management and Administration, 7: 523-527 [1924]
7. A. H. Swayne Mobilization of cash reserves, Management and Administration, 7: 21-23 [1924]
8. E. C. Wennerlund Quality control of inventories - physical regulation contrasted with mere financial information, Management and Administration, 7: 677-682 [1924]
9. H. C. Carlson Organizational research and organizational-change - General Motors approach, Personnel, 54, 4: 11-22 [1977]
10. R. F. Freeland The struggle for control of the modern corporation: organizational change at General Motors, 1924-1958, Management and Administration, 25, 1: 32-37 [1996]
11. J. Merron Putting foreign consumers on the map: J. Walter Thompson's struggle with General Motors' international advertising account in the 1920s, Management and Administration, 73, 3: 465-503 [1999]
12. M. Schwartz Markets, networks, and the rise of Chrysler in old Detroit, 1920-1940, Management and Administration, 1, 1: 63-99 [2000]
Fisher Body
13. R. Casadesus-Masanell and D. F. Spulber The fable of Fisher Body, Journal of Law and Economics, 43, 1: 67-104 [2000]
14. B. Kliein Fisher-General Motors and the nature of the firm, Journal of Law and Economics, 43, 1: 105-141 [2000]
Management of GM- Assessment
15. A. D. J. Chandler Management decentralization: an historical analysis, Business History Review, 30: 111-174 [1956]
16. E. Dale Contributions to administration by Alfred P. Sloan, Administrative Science Quarterly, 1: 30-62 [1956]
17. A. D. J. Chandler Organizational innovation -- a comparative analysis, in Strategy and Structure: Chapters in the History of the Industrial Enterprise, Cambridge Mass.: Massachusetts Institute of Technology Press.283-323 [1962]
18. E. Dale and C. Meloy Recognition of the corporate executive as management pioneer - Contributions of Barksdale, Hm to systematic management in Dupont and General Motors, Conference Board Record, 13, 6: 43-49 [1976]
19. H. T. Johnson Management accounting in an early multi-divisional organization - General-Motors in the 1920s, Business History Review, 52, 4: 490-517 [1978]
20. O. Williamson Modern corporation: origins, evolution, attributes, Journal of Economic Literature, 19: 1539-1544 [1981]
21. A. J. Kuhn Introduction: 'Steermanship' in action, in GM Passes Ford, 1918-1938: Designing the General Motors performance-Control System, University Park, Penn.: The Pennsylvania State University Press.pp. 3-12 [1986a]
22. A. J. Kuhn Contrasting the General Motors - Ford Motor policies via the System-Design-for-Performance-Control Model in GM Passes Ford, 1918-1938: Designing the General Motors performance-Control System, University Park, Penn.: The Pennsylvania State University Press.pp.13-29 [1986b]
23. R. Marchand The inward thrust of institutional advertising: General Electric and General Motors in the 1920s, in W.J. Hausman (ed.) Business and Economic History: Papers Presented at the Thirty-fifth Annual Meeting of the Business History Conference, March 31-April 2, 1989, Boston, Massachusetts., (vol. 18), Williamsburg, Va.: College of William and Mary, Department of Economics Business History Conference.pp. 188-196 [1989]
24. A. P. O'Brien How to succeed in business: lessons from the struggle between Ford and General Motors during the 1920s and 1930s, in W.J. Hausman (ed.) Business and Economic History: Papers Presented at the Thirty-fifth Annual Meeting of the Business History Conference, March 31-April 2, 1989, Boston, Massachusetts., (vol. 18),Williamsburg, Va.: College of William and Mary, Department of Economics Business History Conference. pp. 79-87 [1989]
25. J. Flint Alfred Sloan spoken here, Forbes, 48, 11: 96-97 [1991]
26. S. Helper Strategy and irreversibility in supplier relations: the case of the U.S. automobile industry', Business History Review, 65, 4: 781-824 [1991]
27. A. K. Kashyap and D. W. Wilcox Production and inventory control at the General-Motors- Corporation during the 1920s and 1930s, American Economic Review, 83, 3: 383-401 [1993]
28. P. F. Drucker The theory of the business, Harvard Business Review, Sept-Oct: 95-104 [1994]
29. R. J. Murnane and F. Levy What General Motors can teach US schools about the proper role of markets in education reform, Phi Delta Kappan, 78, 2: 108-114 [1996]
30. S. W. Norton Information and competitive advantage: The rise of General Motors, Journal of Law and Economics, 40, 1: 245-260 [1997]
31. A. P. O'Brien The importance of adjusting production to sales in the early automobile industry, Explorations in Economic History, 34, 2: 195-219 [1997]
32. P.F. Drucker Management's new paradigms, Forbes, Oct. 5: 152-177 [1998]
33. C. A. Medeiros High wage economy, Sloanism and Fordism: the American experience during the Golden Age, Contributions to Political Economy, 19: 33-52 [2000]
Employee Relations
34. G. D. Blackwood The sit-down strike in the thirties', South Atlantic Quarterly, 55, 4: 438-448 [1956]
35. J. Barnard Rebirth of the United Automobile Workers - the General-Motors tool and diemakers strike of 1939, Labor History, 27, 2: 165-187 [1986]
36. A. Raucher Employee relations at General-Motors - the My-Job-Contest, 1947, Labor History, 28, 2: 221-232 [1987]
37. D. Reynolds Engines of struggle - technology, skill, and unionization at General-Motors, 1930-1940, Michigan Historical Review, 15, 1: 69-92 [1989]
GM Today
38. C. Child Smith battles Sloan's legacy, Automotive News, 5706: 25 [1997]
39. E. W. Johnson General-Motors-Corporation, its constituencies and the public- interest, Journal of Business Ethics, 5, 3: 173-176 [1986]
GM and Public Transport
40. Bradford C. Snell General Motors and the Nazis, Ramparts, 12, 11: 14-16 [1974]
41. T. P. O'Hanlon General-Motors, Nazis, and the demise of urban rail transit, Government Publications Review, 11, 3: 211-232 [1984]
42. C. Slater General motors and the demise of streetcars, Transportation Quarterly, 51, 3: 45-66 [1997]
43. B. Cudahy General motors and mass transit ... Again, T ransportation Quarterly, 52, 1: 24-26 [1998]