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Since the industrial revolution, a variety of management theories and systems have emerged. For decades, academics, consultants, practicing managers, and experts in disciplines such as psychology or engineering have tried to answer the basic question: what is a company?
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© 2008 Pablo Cardona and Carlos Rey
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Cardona, P., Rey, C. (2008). Different ways of understanding an organization. In: Management by Missions. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230598942_2
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