September 2013
Beginner to intermediate
240 pages
4h 13m
English
4In fact, the most famous story of “decentralization” was actually one of centralization, relatively speaking. In the 1920s, Alfred Sloan of General Motors reined in the power of the people running its separate businesses (Chevrolet, Buick, etc.) by creating a divisional structure that subjected them to the performance controls imposed by the headquarters (see Mintzberg 1979:405–406).
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