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The Deal Maker: How William C. Durant Made General Motors
by Axel Madsen. 314 pgs.

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The Funeral

1: The Man

2: Rebecca's Boy

3: Testing the Waters

4: D&d

5: Madison Square Garden

6: David Buick

7: Private Lives

8: Carmaking

9: The Selden Cartel

10: Competition

11: Affair of the Heart

12: Checkered Flags

13: Thinking Big

14: Darwinian Lessons

15: A "New Baby"

16: Back in the Saddle

17: A Different Animal

18: Du Pont

19: Into the Roaring Twenties

20: November Storm

21: "Forget Mistakes"

22: Feeding Frenzy

23: Stock Pools

24: Bubble Economy

25: A Lion in Winter

26: Afterimages

Notes on Sources

Bibliography

Index
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Billy, Alfred, and General Motors: The Story of Two Unique Men, a Legendary Company, and a Remarkable Time in American History
by William Pelfrey. 315 pgs.

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Acknowledgments

A Note on Sources and Permissions

Introduction: What They Wrought

1: 1920: The Fateful Year

2: A Precocious Dropout Forges His First Empire

3: A Quiet Student Becomes a First-Class Supplier

4: A New Machine Creates a New Order

5: Restless in Flint, Antsy in New York

6: The Dropout''s Next Big Thing Making It a Go

7: Birth of a General

8: Shooting for the Stars

9: Down but Hardly out

10: Beating the Odds with Chevrolet

11: A Boardroom Coup like None before or since

12: The Founder''s Grip Slips Again

13: A Last Good-Bye to the Baby

14: Alfred Pulls the Ranks Together

15: From Transformation to Domination

Epilogue: What's Good for General Motors

Chronology of Key Events

Notes

Selected Bibliography

Index

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Surviving Transformation: Lessons from GM's Surprising Turnaround
by Vincent P. Barabba. 256 pgs.

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1: Setting the Scene

2: Creating an Extended Customer Relationship Business

3: Creating the Business You Want

4: Transparency and a Dialogue with the Customer

5: Finding the Right Mix of Business Designs

6: Solving the Right Problem the Right Way

7: Solving a Messy Problem

8: Solving a Divergent-Views Problem

9: Solving a Complex Problem

10: Applying What You Have Learned

11: Understanding the System in Which the Enterprise System Operates

12: Challenging Our Critical Assumptions

13: Leveraging Knowledge across the Enterprise

14: Combining Imagination and Market Knowledge

15: Creating the Right Business Design in the Face of Uncertainty

16: Starting with Your Destination

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The Changing U.S. Auto Industry: A Geographical Analysis (Chap. 4 "General Motors Builds Branch Assembly Plants")
by James M. Rubenstein. 320 pgs.

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1: The Changing Geography of Automobile Production

Part I: Development of the Geography of Us Automotive Production

2: Automobile Production Concentrates in Michigan

3: Ford Revolutionizes the Geography of Production

4: General Motors Builds Branch Assembly Plants

5: Components Plants Locate in the Southern Great Lakes Region

Part II: Reasons for Recent Locational Changes: Regional Scale

6: Market Fragmentation

7: Just-In-Time Delivery

Part III: Reasons for Recent Locational Changes: Community Scale

8: Governmental Impact on Locational Decisions

9: Avoiding Militant Workers

10: Whipsawing Existing Plants

11: Conclusion

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Reshaping Change: A Processual Perspective (Chap. 4 "The Politics of Change at General Motors")
by Patrick Dawson. 224 pgs.

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This book sets out to examine and explore change as a process and not as a one-off event. It analyzes change in context, and features case studies based on in-depth data research, interviews and extensive fieldwork by the author. There are chapters on Pirelli Cables, General Motors, as well as Shell Expro and Britax Industries.

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1: Introduction

2: A Processual Approach to Understanding Change

3: The Context of Change at Pirelli Cables

4: The Politics of Change at General Motors

5: The Substance of Change at Shell Expro and Britax Industries

6: Conceptualizing Processual Research: Methodological Orientation and the Design of Longitudinal Studies

7: Doing Processual Research: Tacit Knowledge, Data Collection and Data Analysis

8: Disseminating Processual Research: the Written Case Study

9: Conclusion: the Process of Organizational Change

Appendix I: Example of Interview Schedules and Supervisor's Questionnaire

Appendix Ii: Example of Processual Case Study Write-Up for Company

Appendix Iii: an Example of a Processual Case Study Used for Teaching Purposes

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Voting for Wage Concessions: the Case of the 1982 GM-UAW Negotiations, in Industrial & Labor Relations Review
by Bruce E. Kaufman, Jorge Martinez-Vazquez. 12 pgs.

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Voting for Wage Concessions: the Case of the 1982 Gm-Uaw Negotiations
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Patterns of Union-Management Relations: United Automobile Workers (CIO), General Motors, Studebaker (1947)
by Frederick H. Harbison, Robert Dubin. 229 pgs.

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Chapter I: Union-Management Relations In Mass Production Industries

Chapter II: Corporation and Union Programs and Strategies

Chapter III: The Resulting Union-Management Relationship

Chapter IV: Background and Approach To Union-Management Relations

Chapter V: Collective Bargaining Between Studebaker and Local 5, Uaw-Cio

Part Four: Conclusions

Chapter VI: The Significance of Bigness In Union-Management Relations

Chapter VII: The Nature and Scope Of Constructive Union-Management Relations

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