Control Through Communication: The Rise of System in American Management

by JoAnne Yates and Professor JoAnne Yates

Book Overview

Winner of the Waldo Gifford Leland Prize from the Society of American ArchivistsWinner of the Alpha Kappa Psi Foundation Award for Distinguished Publication on Business Communication from the Association for Business Communication

Caught in the midst of an information revolution, today's business managers and scholars are trying to assess the likely effects of the sweeping changes now taking place in technolocy and in organization. In Control...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801846137
• ISBN13: 9780801846137
• Release Date: March 1993
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Length: 368 Pages
• Weight: 1.14 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

A Clear Insight

The nature of business and organizations has changed radically in the last 150 years. Dr. Yates describes those changes and shows how improved information and communications technology made those changes possible. Her point is that the telegraph, the memeograph machine, vertical filing and so on made possible the development of copmplex modern organizations with multiple divisions in different locations. She uses the Illinois Central Rail Road, the Scovill Manufacturing Company, and DuPont to show how organizations evolved. Obviously, the rise of the modern corporation -- and other complex organizations -- has made the modern world possible. This interesting book helps explain that revolutionary development.This book is clear and interesting. Her research is carefully document.