Creating the corporate soul : the rise of public relations and corporate imagery in American big business /


Roland Marchand.
Bok Engelsk 1998 Roland. Marchand,· Electronic books
Utgitt
Berkeley : : University of California Press, , c1998.
Omfang
1 online resource (xi, 461 p. ) : ill. (some col.) ;
Opplysninger
Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph. - Confessions and rebuttals : the plight of the soulless corporation -- AT&T : the vision of a loved monopoly -- Corporate morale in war and peace : advocacy, industrial statesmanship, and humanization -- A "corporation consciousness" : General Motors, General Electric, and the Bruce Barton formula -- To be an institution : the service ideal and the institutional style -- The 1930s : save the system -- The corporations come to the fair : the visit to the factory transformed -- Little towns and big corporations : the wartime imagery of a nation united.. - "Over the course of the twentieth century the popular perception of America's giant corporations has undergone an astonishing change. Condemned as dangerous leviathans in the century's first decades, by 1945 major corporations had become respected, even revered, institutions. Roland Marchand's book tells how large companies such as AT & T and U.S. Steel created their own "souls" in order to reassure consumers and politicians that their size and influence posed no threat to democracy or American values." "Marchand traces this important transformation in the culture of capitalism by offering a series of fascinating case studies of such corporate giants as General Motors, General Electric, Metropolitan Life Insurance, Du Pont Chemicals, and Ford Motors."--Jacket.
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Dewey
ISBN
0520087194

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