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.
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[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.
(American Historical Review )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.
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This review is from: Control through Communication: The Rise of System in American Management (Studies in Industry and Society) (Paperback)
The nature of business and organizations has changed radically in the last 150 years. Dr. Yates describes those changes and shows how improved information and communications technology made those changes possible. Her point is that the telegraph, the memeograph machine, vertical filing and so on made possible the development of copmplex modern organizations with multiple divisions in different locations. She uses the Illinois Central Rail Road, the Scovill Manufacturing Company, and DuPont to show how organizations evolved. Obviously, the rise of the modern corporation -- and other complex organizations -- has made the modern world possible. This interesting book helps explain that revolutionary development. This book is clear and interesting. Her research is carefully document.
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The nature of business and organizations has changed radically in the last 150 years. Dr. Yates describes those changes and shows how improved information and communications technology made those changes possible. Her point is that the telegraph, the memeograph machine, vertical filing and so on made possible the development of copmplex modern organizations with multiple divisions in different locations. She uses the Illinois Central Rail Road, the Scovill Manufacturing Company, and DuPont to show how organizations evolved. Obviously, the rise of the modern corporation -- and other complex organizations -- has made the modern world possible. This interesting book helps explain that revolutionary development. This book is clear and interesting. Her research is carefully document.
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In early nineteenth-century America, business enterprises were generally small, family affairs. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
upward reporting system, lateral correspondence, internal written communication, cabinet flat files, formal internal communication, stencil duplicating, upward reports, systematic management movement, downward communication, vertical filing, external letters, internal correspondence, external correspondence, flat filing, prose reports, local treasurer, press copying, midcentury period, formal communication system, casting shop, internal letters, filing correspondence, shop conferences, managerial methods, hoc management Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Illinois Central, New York, Experimental Station, General Henry, Taft Commission, Burner Department, Carney's Point, Western Railroad, Ballistic Division, Research Department, Chemical Department, Lammot du Pont, Pennsylvania Railroad, Southern Division, Iowa Powder Mills, World War, Eugene du Pont, New Orleans, Repauno Chemical Company, Stuyvesant Fish, Harry Haskell, Harvard Business School, Industrial Management, Scovill Manufacturing Company, United States New!
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In early nineteenth-century America, business enterprises were generally small, family affairs. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
upward reporting system, lateral correspondence, internal written communication, cabinet flat files, formal internal communication, stencil duplicating, upward reports, systematic management movement, downward communication, vertical filing, external letters, internal correspondence, external correspondence, flat filing, prose reports, local treasurer, press copying, midcentury period, formal communication system, casting shop, internal letters, filing correspondence, shop conferences, managerial methods, hoc management Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Illinois Central, New York, Experimental Station, General Henry, Taft Commission, Burner Department, Carney's Point, Western Railroad, Ballistic Division, Research Department, Chemical Department, Lammot du Pont, Pennsylvania Railroad, Southern Division, Iowa Powder Mills, World War, Eugene du Pont, New Orleans, Repauno Chemical Company, Stuyvesant Fish, Harry Haskell, Harvard Business School, Industrial Management, Scovill Manufacturing Company, United States New!
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- American Railroads (The Chicago History of American Civilization) by John F. Stover in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- Strategy and Structure: Chapters in the History of the American Industrial Enterprise by Alfred D. Chandler on page 1, Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
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- Advertising Progress: American Business and the Rise of Consumer Marketing (Studies in Industry and Society) by Pamela Walker Laird in Front Matter, Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
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