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An entertaining account of the rise and fall of the Saturn plant, built by General Motors in Tennessee to produce an entirely new car that would reinvent the way American companies manufactured automobiles.

Automobile industry and trade --- Saturn automobile --- Automobiles --- Saturn (Automobiles) --- Industrie et commerce --- General Motors Corporation --- General Motors Corporation. --- Cars --- Production --- History --- United States --- E-books --- Saturn automobile. --- General Motors automobiles --- Dzheneral motors --- G.M.C. --- General Motors --- General Motors Corp. --- GM --- GMC --- Elmore Manufacturing Company --- General Motors Company --- Motors Liquidation Company

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Describes the strategic turnaround at General Motors beginning in the early 1990s that has brought it back from the brink of bankruptcy. This work focuses on how other companies in a variety of industries can learn from GM's experience.

Automobile industry and trade --- Organizational change --- Automobile industry and trade. --- Organizational change. --- Management --- Automotive industry --- Motor vehicle industry --- General Motors Corporation --- Dzheneral motors --- G.M.C. --- General Motors --- General Motors Corp. --- GM --- GMC --- Elmore Manufacturing Company --- General Motors Company --- E-books --- Motors Liquidation Company

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Winner of the 2005 Business History Review Newcomen Award for best book in business history, The Struggle for Control of the Modern Corporation provides a fascinating historical overview of decision-making and political struggle within one of America's largest and most important corporations. Drawing on primary historical material, Robert Freeland examines the changes in General Motors' organization between the years 1924 and 1970. He takes issue with the well-known argument of business historian Alfred Chandler and economist Oliver Wiliamson, who contend that GM's multidivisional corporate structure emerged and survived because it was more efficient than alternative forms of organization. This book illustrates that for most of its history, GM intentionally violated the fundamental axioms of efficient organization put forth by these analysts. It did so in order to create cooperation and managerial consent to corporate policies. Freeland uses the GM case to re-examine existing theories of corporate governance, arguing that the decentralized organizational structure advocated by efficiency theorists may actually undermine cooperation, and thus foster organizational decline.

General Motors Corporation --- Industrial management. --- Organizational change. --- Changement organisationnel --- Gestion d'entreprise --- Management. --- Social Sciences --- Sociology --- Business administration --- Business enterprises --- Business management --- Corporate management --- Corporations --- Industrial administration --- Management, Industrial --- Rationalization of industry --- Scientific management --- Management --- Business --- Industrial organization --- Change, Organizational --- Organization development --- Organizational development --- Organizational innovation --- Organization --- Manpower planning --- Dzheneral motors --- G.M.C. --- General Motors --- General Motors Corp. --- GM --- GMC --- Elmore Manufacturing Company --- General Motors Company --- Motors Liquidation Company

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In this provocative and wide-ranging book, Ken Kollman examines the histories of the US government, the Catholic Church, General Motors, and the European Union as examples of federated systems that centralized power over time. He shows how their institutions became locked-in to intensive power in the executive. The problem with these and other federated systems is that they often cannot decentralize even if it makes sense. The analysis leads Kollman to suggest some surprising changes in institutional design for these four cases and for federated institutions everywhere.

Decentralization in government --- Decentralization in management --- Executive power --- Federal government --- States' rights (American politics) --- Emergency powers --- Power, Executive --- Presidents --- Political science --- Implied powers (Constitutional law) --- Separation of powers --- Centralization in management --- Delegation of authority --- Management --- Centralization in government --- Devolution in government --- Government centralization --- Government decentralization --- Government devolution --- Central-local government relations --- Local government --- Public administration --- Powers --- General Motors Corporation --- Catholic Church --- Dzheneral motors --- G.M.C. --- General Motors --- General Motors Corp. --- GM --- GMC --- Elmore Manufacturing Company --- General Motors Company --- Motors Liquidation Company --- History. --- Government --- Church of Rome --- Roman Catholic Church --- Katholische Kirche --- Katolyt︠s︡ʹka t︠s︡erkva --- Römisch-Katholische Kirche --- Römische Kirche --- Ecclesia Catholica --- Eglise catholique --- Eglise catholique-romaine --- Katolicheskai︠a︡ t︠s︡erkovʹ --- Chiesa cattolica --- Iglesia Católica --- Kościół Katolicki --- Katolicki Kościół --- Kościół Rzymskokatolicki --- Nihon Katorikku Kyōkai --- Katholikē Ekklēsia --- Gereja Katolik --- Kenesiyah ha-Ḳatolit --- Kanisa Katoliki --- כנסיה הקתולית --- כנסייה הקתולית --- 가톨릭교 --- 천주교