Writing about Business and Industry

• IntroductionThe Inquisitive SpiritBlaise Pascal: Pensee 139Adam Smith: Of the Division of LaborMeriwether Lewis and William Clark: The Dalles to Walla Walla RiverMax Weber: The Spirit of CapitalismFriedrich Engels: CompetitionGeorge Orwell: South WalesB. L. Hutchins: The Working Life of WomenFelice N. Schwartz: Management Women and the New Facts of LifeEric Hobsbawn: Man and Woman: Images on the LeftMary Parker Follett: The Essentials of LeadershipHenry Ford: What I Learned About BusinessRobert Sobel: Cyrus Hall McCormick: From Farm Boy to TycoonThe Acquisitive SpiritRichard Goldthwaite: The Wherewithal to Spend: The Economic Background of Renaissance FlorenceAlfred D. Chandler: The Enduring Logic of Industrial SuccessDharma Kumar with Meghnad Desai: The Occupational Structure of IndiaJoseph Grunwald, Leslie Delatour, and Karl Voltaire: Foreign Assembly in HaitiGary Hamel and C. K. Prahalad: Strategic IntentArthur Pound: Pouring Ideas into Tin CansBeatrice Webb: Women and the Factory ActsStuart Blumin: Black Coats to White Collars: Economic Change, Nonmanual Work, and the Social Structure of Industrializing AmericaAlfred Pritchard Sloan: Co-Ordination by CommitteePaul R. Lawrence and Davis Dyer: Autos: On the Thin EdgeAndrea Gabor: America Rediscovers W. Edwards DemingJeffrey Pfeffer: Organizations as Physical StructuresBowen McCoy: The Parable of the SadhuR. Roosevelt Thomas, Jr.: From Affirmative Action to Affirming DiversitySteven C. Wheelwright and W. Earl Sasser, Jr.: The New Product Development Map

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