Artikel
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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Englisch
- Bibliographic citation
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Journal: Journal of Organization Design ; ISSN: 2245-408X ; Volume: 8 ; Year: 2019 ; Issue: 19 ; Pages: 1-16 ; Cham: Springer
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Management
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Geistige Schöpfung
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Baldwin, Carliss Y.
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Veröffentlichung
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Springer
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Cham
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2019
- DOI
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doi:10.1186/s41469-019-0059-4
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10.03.2025, 11:44 AM CET
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- Baldwin, Carliss Y.
- Springer
Time of origin
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