02998nam a2200397 a 4500 ebr10535576 CaPaEBR m u cr cn||||||||| 101217s2011 njua sb 001 0 eng d 2010052501 9780813551302 (hardcover alk. paper) 0813551307 (hardcover alk. paper) 9780813552040 (e-book) CaPaEBR CaPaEBR (OCoLC)785785244 n-us--- HD58.7 .H646 2011eb 338.0973 22 Hoopes, James, 1944- Corporate dreams [electronic resource] : big business in American democracy from the Great Depression to the great recession / James Hoopes. New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, c2011. ix, 234 p. : ill. Includes bibliographical references and index. The corporate American dream at its height and in its origins -- The corporate American dream -- Corporate and national character -- From public purpose to private profit -- Corporations as enemies of the free market -- Corporate failure and government fix -- Corporate crashes -- Managers versus markets -- Corporations blow their chance to end the depression -- Roosevelt's confused anti-corporatism -- The corporation strikes back -- The right to manage -- Corporations recover their moral authority -- Killing the unions softly -- Creating Reagan and his voters -- What manner of man(ager)? -- Masking the arrogance of power -- Responsibility versus profit at general motors -- Critics of managerial character -- JFK's pyrrhic victory over U.S. steel -- The corporation in the wilderness again -- McNamara and the staffers -- The false confidence of the anti-corporatists -- Corporate America loses world supremacy -- Laying the groundwork for the corporation's cultural comeback -- Leadership -- Managing by values -- Creating the concept of corporate culture -- Inventing the leadership development industry -- Reagan aids corporations by bashing government -- Entrepreneurship -- Supply siders versus the big corporation -- Reengineering the corporation -- George W. Bush, Enron, and the great recession -- Can the corporate American dream be saved?. Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2011. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries. Corporate culture United States History. Business and politics United States Case studies. Political ethics United States. Leadership United States History. United States Politics and government 2001-2009. United States Moral conditions. Electronic books. local ebrary, Inc. http://site.ebrary.com/lib/rucke/Doc?id=10535576 An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view 243555 243555