Selected for the Harvard Business School Core Collection
Containing a new introduction, this book on corporate power offers a theory of the effects of power and powerlessness within the corporation. The theory is updated by considering attitudes and practices in the corporate power structure of the 1990s.
Selected for the Harvard Business School Core Collection
Containing a new introduction, this book on corporate power offers a theory of the effects of power and powerlessness within the corporation. The theory is updated by considering attitudes and practices in the corporate power structure of the 1990s.
In this landmark work on corporate power, especially as it relates to women, Rosabeth Moss Kanter, the distinguished Harvard management thinker and consultant, shows how the careers and self-images of the managers, professionals, and executives, and also those of the secretaries, wives of managers, and women looking for a way up, are determined by the distribution of power and powerlessness within the corporation. This new edition of her award-winning book has a major new afterward in which the author reviews and analyses how attitudes and practices within the corporate power structure have changed in the 1990s.
Rosabeth Moss Kanter, holds the Class of 1960 Chair as professor of business administration at the Harvard Business School. She is the author of eleven books, including When Giants Learn to Dance (1988), which won the Johnson, Smith & Knisely Award for New Perspectives on Executive Leadership, and The Change Masters (1983).
In this landmark work on corporate power, especially as it relates to women, Rosabeth Moss Kanter, the distinguished Harvard management thinker and consultant, shows how the careers and self-images of the managers, professionals, and executives, and also those of the secretaries, wives of managers, and women looking for a way up, are determined by the distribution of power and powerlessness within the corporation. This new edition of her award-winning book has a major new afterward in which the author reviews and analyses how attitudes and practices within the corporate power structure have changed in the 1990s.
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