Control Through Communication

The Rise of System in American Management
Erscheinungsjahr 1993
ISBN: 978-0-8018-4613-7
Verlag: Johns Hopkins University Press

Buch, Englisch, Band 6, 368 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 600 g

Reihe: Studies in Industry and Society

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Yates, Joanne

Fachgebiete

• Technische Wissenschaften Technik Allgemein Technikgeschichte
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Betriebswirtschaft Unternehmenskommunikation
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Betriebswirtschaft Management Unternehmensorganisation & Entwicklungsstrategien

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Illustrations
Foreword
Acknowledgments
Introduction: The Transformation of Internal Communication
1. material Methods and the Functions of Internal Communication
2. Communication Technology and the Growth of Internal Communication
3. Genres of Internal Communication
4. The Illinois Central before 1887: Communication for Compliance and Efficiency
7. Du Pont's First Century: Conservatism in Family and Firm
8. Du Pont, 1902-1920: Radical Change from a New Generation
Conclusion
Notes
A Note on Archival Sources
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Yates, Joanne
JoAnne Yates, Deputy Dean and Distinguished Professor of Management at the MIT Sloan School of Management, is the author of Control Through Communication: The Rise of System in American Management, also published by Johns Hopkins.

JoAnne Yates is the Sloan Distinguished Professor of Management, Emerita, at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She is the author of Engineering Rules: Global Standard Setting since 1880 and Structuring the Information Age: Life Insurance and Technology in the Twentieth Century.