Organizing America
by Charles Perrow · first published 2002
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As OP isn't forthcoming with their corporate history text, one of which I'm familiar and can recommend is Charles Perrow, Organizing America: wealth, power, and the origins of corporate capitalism. As a sociologist specialising in organisational behaviour and structures, Perrow brings a deep expertise and excellent scholarship to the field.…
on “Pandora papers: biggest leak of offshore data exposes financial secrets of rich” ↗…chaos and complexity recommendations above (Campbell et al), though I'd add Joseph Tainter's The Collapse of Complex Societies. Charle's Perrow has several excellent books including Normal Accidents and Organizing America. I'd like to reference something concerning Unix, Linux, and programming, perhaps Kernighan and Pike's The Unix Programming Environment, Linus Torvalds' Just for Fun, Richard Stallman's The GNU Manifesto,…
on “Ask HN: What book have you given as a gift?” ↗…chaos and complexity recommendations above (Campbell et al), though I'd add Joseph Tainter's The Collapse of Complex Societies. Charle's Perrow has several excellent books including Normal Accidents and Organizing America. I'd like to reference something concerning Unix, Linux, and programming, perhaps Kernighan and Pike's The Unix Programming Environment, Linus Torvalds' Just for Fun, Richard Stallman's The GNU Manifesto,…
on “Ask HN: What good books have you read lately?” ↗Archive.org have it but not for digital loan unless you are officially "print disabled", but you can preview and full text search. https://openlibrary.org/works/OL4468926W/Organizing_America Which links to: https://archive.org/details/organizingameric00perr/
on “Pandora papers: biggest leak of offshore data exposes financial secrets of rich” ↗…Essay (1972), The Next Catastrophe: Reducing Our Vulnerabilities to Natural, Industrial, and Terrorist Disasters (2011), The AIDS Disaster: The Failure of Organizations in New York and the Nation (1990), Organizing America: Wealth, Power and the Origins of American Capitalism (2002), among others. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Perrow He's also mentioned in the episode "LaLa Land: Gallileo's Warning" of Tim Harford's…
on “Charles Perrow, Author of “Normal Accidents”, Has Died” ↗For some further related reading: "The Memorandum as a Management Genre" by JoAnne Yates <http://www.ismlab.usf.edu/dcom/Ch6_YatesMemoMgtCommQtly1989....> (PDF) Organizing America by Charles Perrow is Yet Another Book Exploring the Origins of The Corporation: <https://press.princeton.edu/books/ebook/9781400825080/organi...> <https://archive.org/details/organizingameric0000perr>…
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