Peter Drucker and Management

Introduction

DOI: 10.4324/9781003410485-1

No society can function as a society unless it gives the individual member social status and function, and unless the decisive social power is legitimate power. The former establishes the basic frame of social life, the purpose and meaning of society. The latter shapes the space within the frame; it makes society concrete and creates its institutions. If the individual is not given social status and function, there can be no society but only a mass of social atoms flying through space without aim or purpose. And unless power is legitimate, there can be no social fabric; there is only a social vacuum held together by mere slavery or inertia.

(Drucker, 2003, pp. xvi–xvii)

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