Setting the stage for corporate headquarters: A technological explanation for the rise of modern industrial corporations
This paper combines theories of organizational design with theories of production to provide a novel perspective, which helps explain the technological forces that led to the rise of vertically integrated "modern" corporations in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. I describe the technology of a flow process with bottlenecks and show how this technology rewards unified governance, a hierarchical organization structure, and the use of direct authority. These properties in turn became the organizational hallmarks of "modern" industrial corporations with central corporate headquarters.
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2019
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Authors: | Baldwin, Carliss Y. |
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Journal of Organization Design. - Cham : Springer, ISSN 2245-408X. - Vol. 8.2019, 19, p. 1-16
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Cham : Springer |
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