Men and Women of the Corporation: New Edition
- ISBN-10
- 078672384X
- ISBN-13
- 9780786723843
- Category
- Business & Economics
- Pages
- 416
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2008-08-04
- Publisher
- Basic Books
- Author
- Rosabeth Moss Kanter
Description
In this landmark work on corporate power, especially as it relates to women, Rosabeth Moss Kanter, the distinguished Harvard management thinker and consultant, shows how the careers and self-images of the managers, professionals, and executives, and also those of the secretaries, wives of managers, and women looking for a way up, are determined by the distribution of power and powerlessness within the corporation. This new edition of her award-winning book has a major new afterward in which the author reviews and analyzes how attitudes and practices within the corporate power structure have changed in the 1990s.
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