1st Edition

Concept of the Corporation

By Peter Drucker Copyright 1993
360 Pages
by Routledge

360 Pages
by Routledge

329 Pages
by Routledge

Concept of the Corporation was the first study ever of the constitution, structure, and internal dynamics of a major business enterprise. Basing his work on a two-year analysis of the company done during the closing years of World War II, Drucker looks at the General Motors managerial organization from within. He tries to understand what makes the company work so effectively, what its core... Read more

Introduction to the 1983 Edition

Preface to the 1983 Edition

Preface to the Original Edition

Part 1: Capitalism in One Country

Part 2: The Corporation as Human Effort

1. Organization for Production

2. Decentralization

3. How Well Does It Work?

4. The Small Business Partner

5. Decentralization as a Model?

Part 3: The Corporation as a Social Institution

6. The American Beliefs

7. The Foreman: The Industrial Middle Class

8. The Worker

Part 4: Economic Policy in an Industrial Society

9. The "Curse of Bigness"

10. Production for "Use" or for "Profit"?

11. Is Full Employment Possible?
  
Epilogue

Biography

Drucker, Peter