The Puritan Gift: Reclaiming the American Dream Amidst Global Financial Chaos
- ISBN-10
- 1780767900
- ISBN-13
- 9781780767901
- Series
- The Puritan Gift
- Category
- Industrial management
- Pages
- 360
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2013-09
- Authors
- Kenneth Hopper, William Joseph Hopper
Description
'The Puritan Gift' traces the origins and the characteristics of American managerial culture which, in the course of three centuries, would turn a group of small colonies into the greatest economic and political power on earth.
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