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Systematic Management: The Search for Order and Integration

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  • Litterer, Joseph A.

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A comparative examination of late nineteenth-century worker productivity, machine utilization, and management methodology reveals the importance of process-oriented organization in American factories, where the highest technical skills were directed not at making products, as in Europe, but at making production lines. This orientation, together with a rapidly changing environment, required a particular kind of management and a new awareness of the management function.

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  • Litterer, Joseph A., 1961. "Systematic Management: The Search for Order and Integration," Business History Review, Cambridge University Press, vol. 35(4), pages 461-476, January.
    • Handle: RePEc:cup:buhirw:v:35:y:1961:i:04:p:461-476_04
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