Intro -- Contents -- Introduction -- 1 The Dilemmas of Ruling Elites in Revolutionary America -- 2 The "Slave Power" in the United States, 1783-1865 -- 3 Merchants and Manufacturers in the Antebellum North -- 4 Gilded Age Gospels -- 5 The Abortive Rule of Big Money -- 6 The Managerial...

This paper analyzes the design, refinement, and evolution of organizational policymaking processes, that is to say, organizational governance. Governance procedures like other aspects of organization are refined through time to advance formeteur interests. Several mechanisms of evolution are...