For the purpose of carrying out its operations, a business firm keeps many kinds of assets, both physical and financial, e.g. manufacturing equipment, inventories of raw materials and finished products that facilitate production and marketing, accounts receivable that result from sales, cash on...

In all organizations, there is, to one degree or another, a function that makes their members mutually alike. Let us refer to this function as that of assimilation. We must recognize that this is not a question of good or bad but that it functions generally, at any rate, as an attribute of...