Corporate dreams :
Hoopes, James, 1944-
Corporate dreams : big business in American democracy from the Great Depression to the great recession / James Hoopes. - New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, c2011. - ix, 234 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
The corporate American dream at its height and in its origins -- The corporate American dream -- Corporate and national character -- From public purpose to private profit -- Corporations as enemies of the free market -- Corporate failure and government fix -- Corporate crashes -- Managers versus markets -- Corporations blow their chance to end the depression -- Roosevelt's confused anti-corporatism -- The corporation strikes back -- The right to manage -- Corporations recover their moral authority -- Killing the unions softly -- Creating Reagan and his voters -- What manner of man(ager)? -- Masking the arrogance of power -- Responsibility versus profit at general motors -- Critics of managerial character -- JFK's pyrrhic victory over U.S. steel -- The corporation in the wilderness again -- McNamara and the staffers -- The false confidence of the anti-corporatists -- Corporate America loses world supremacy -- Laying the groundwork for the corporation's cultural comeback -- Leadership -- Managing by values -- Creating the concept of corporate culture -- Inventing the leadership development industry -- Reagan aids corporations by bashing government -- Entrepreneurship -- Supply siders versus the big corporation -- Reengineering the corporation -- George W. Bush, Enron, and the great recession -- Can the corporate American dream be saved?.
9780813551302 (hardcover : alk. paper) 0813551307 (hardcover : alk. paper)
2010052501
GBB263794 bnb
Corporate culture--History.--United States
Business and politics--United States--Case studies.
Political ethics--United States.
Leadership--History.--United States
United States--Politics and government--2001-2009.
United States--Moral conditions.
HD58.7 / .H646 2011
338.0973
Corporate dreams : big business in American democracy from the Great Depression to the great recession / James Hoopes. - New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, c2011. - ix, 234 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
The corporate American dream at its height and in its origins -- The corporate American dream -- Corporate and national character -- From public purpose to private profit -- Corporations as enemies of the free market -- Corporate failure and government fix -- Corporate crashes -- Managers versus markets -- Corporations blow their chance to end the depression -- Roosevelt's confused anti-corporatism -- The corporation strikes back -- The right to manage -- Corporations recover their moral authority -- Killing the unions softly -- Creating Reagan and his voters -- What manner of man(ager)? -- Masking the arrogance of power -- Responsibility versus profit at general motors -- Critics of managerial character -- JFK's pyrrhic victory over U.S. steel -- The corporation in the wilderness again -- McNamara and the staffers -- The false confidence of the anti-corporatists -- Corporate America loses world supremacy -- Laying the groundwork for the corporation's cultural comeback -- Leadership -- Managing by values -- Creating the concept of corporate culture -- Inventing the leadership development industry -- Reagan aids corporations by bashing government -- Entrepreneurship -- Supply siders versus the big corporation -- Reengineering the corporation -- George W. Bush, Enron, and the great recession -- Can the corporate American dream be saved?.
9780813551302 (hardcover : alk. paper) 0813551307 (hardcover : alk. paper)
2010052501
GBB263794 bnb
Corporate culture--History.--United States
Business and politics--United States--Case studies.
Political ethics--United States.
Leadership--History.--United States
United States--Politics and government--2001-2009.
United States--Moral conditions.
HD58.7 / .H646 2011
338.0973