Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/217479 
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2019
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[Journal:] Journal of Organization Design [ISSN:] 2245-408X [Volume:] 8 [Issue:] 19 [Publisher:] Springer [Place:] Cham [Year:] 2019 [Pages:] 1-16
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Springer, Cham
Abstract: 
This paper combines theories of organizational design with theories of production to provide a novel perspective, which helps explain the technological forces that led to the rise of vertically integrated "modern" corporations in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. I describe the technology of a flow process with bottlenecks and show how this technology rewards unified governance, a hierarchical organization structure, and the use of direct authority. These properties in turn became the organizational hallmarks of "modern" industrial corporations with central corporate headquarters.
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