The Vanishing American Corporation: Navigating the Hazards of a New Economy
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| Rating | : | 4.73 (508 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1626562792 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 240 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-02-12 |
| Language | : | English |
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Terry Book Award) and the coauthor of Changing Your Company from the Inside Out, Social Movements and Organization Theory, and Organizations and Organizing. Pierpont Collegiate Professor of Management at the Ross School of Business and professor of sociology at the University of Michigan. Davis is the Wilbur K.
Outstanding book on the Vanishing American Corporation Myron M. Miller Review of the book by Gerald F. Davis Myron M. Miller“The Vanishing American Corporation”First, this is a book that should be read, and re-read, by all those currently involved in business, NGOs and government. Perhaps even more importantly, it should be read by all university faculty and the students of today and tomorrow. Dr. Davis’s description of what formed the corporations of America, and the dramatic forces that have changed them, provides an ideal background to the. Thought-provoking look at corporate America A brilliant, eye-opening book which includes advice on how to adapt to the changing world of business. Rethinking one’s career path might be wise. An interesting history on how the business world used to work and how and why it can no longer continue in the same direction. Corporations are rapidly disappearing and the reasons why are given. Some of the statistics on the state of corporations are surprising. Technology is changing the world of business very rapidly.Directed not only at. "I never imagine that - the relevance of corporations as" according to Guilhermino Domiciano de Souza. I never imagine that - the relevance of corporations as parastates and the end of corporations as we know them. Im brazilian and here the corporation model is vanishing too, in a more slow way; to read this is to look to the future.
The implications are significant, but so are the opportunities. Davis offers us a way to understand the significance of the change and to lead through it. Elegantly paced, it gives glimpses of the social and economic impact of corporations on nations and makes for very good reading.”—S.D. It raises radical questions for how we should collectively organize and individually navigate this brave new world, forces us to look afresh at how market and government should be allowed to interact, and puts our existing economic and political philosophies to the test.” —Philip Pettit, L. Dee II Professor of Organizational Behavior, Graduate School of Business, Stanford University“Davis challenges the future of the corporation and of traditional jobs in a world of digital disruption and decentralization. Jerry Davis shows himself again to be a tow
It may be hard to believe in an era of Walmart, Citizens United, and the Koch brothers, but corporations are on the decline. In recent years we've seen some of the most storied corporations go bankrupt (General Motors, Chrysler, Eastman Kodak) or disappear entirely (Bethlehem Steel, Lehman Brothers, Borders). The businesses that are replacing them will not fill the same role. The number of American companies listed on the stock market dropped by half between 1996 and 2012. The future could see either increasing economic polarization, as careers turn into jobs and jobs turn into tasks, or a more democratic economy built from the grass roots. He points out that in their heyday they offered millions of people lifetime employment, a stable career path, health insurance, and retirement pensions. Gerald Davis argues this is a root cause of the income inequality and social instability we face today. And in the “sharing economy,” companies have no obligation to most of the people who work for them—at the end of 2014 Uber had over 160,000 “driver-partners” in the Uni