In 1943, Peter Drucker spent a year inside of GM, and published his experiences about their corporate environment in 1946.
From The introduction of the 1983 Edition to Peter Drucker’s Concept of the Corporation,
“It is one of the very few books in which an ‘outsider’ takes a long and careful look from the ‘inside.’ In fact, no one, since I wrote this book almost fifty years ago has tried to do something similar — whether with another big business enterprise or with any other of the big organizations in and through which the social tasks of modern society are begin discharged, whether hospital, school, university, or church.”
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