The Charismatic Corporation
Finance, Administration, and Shop Floor Management under Henry Ford
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 7097005 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Stefan Link (0000-0003-3958-9716, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2018 |
| Volume | 92 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 85-115 |
| Publication date | 2018-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Business History Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0007-6805 • E-ISSN: 2044-768X |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0007680518000065 |
| OpenAlex | W2802542925 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 8 |
| References cited | 46 |
After assuming sole ownership of the Ford Motor Company in 1919, Henry Ford transformed his business into a mission-driven organization that prioritized improvements in production and engineering over investment returns. At the same time, the company programmatically rejected bureaucratic management in favor of informal procedures and ingrained collective protocols, both in administration and on the shop floor. This article references Max Weber's view of “charismatic” authority to explain the company’s organizational structure, its culture, its ambivalence toward Henry Ford’s worst tendencies and prejudices, and its resilience during the decline of his leadership in the 1930s and 1940s
Administration (probate law · Ambivalence · Bureaucracy · Business · Charisma · Charismatic authority · Corporation · Economics · Investment (military · Management · Multinational corporation · Organizational culture · Political science · Sociology · Subsidiary · Finance · Law · Weber, Simmel, Sociological Theory
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Charisma without routinization, or how tech entrepreneurs turn into tech oligarchs
Selling the World
Business history and the resilience of regional economies
Making America corporate, 1870-1920
Employing Bureaucracy
Strategy and Structure
Charismatic Leadership in Organizations
Reimagining Business History
Economy and Society
The Visible Hand
Life in the Shadows of the Crystal Palace, 1910-1927
Ford
Henry Ford and the Jews
Moderne Unternehmensgeschichte
From the American System to Mass Production, 1800-1932
The Five Dollar Day
A Contest of Ideas
Brahmin Capitalism
Max Weber in Politics and Social Thought
From Slavery to the Cooperative Commonwealth
Economic Action and Social Structure
Economy and Society
The Populist Response to Industrial America
Frederick W. Taylor and the Rise of Scientific Management
The Five Dollar Day
Path Dependency and Governance in German Family Firms
Alfred Chandler
Making Cars and Making Money in the Interwar Automobile Industry
The Myth of the Line
Rationalities in History
Max Weber in politics and social thought
Henry Ford and Grass-Roots America
Ford
Max Weber's Charisma
Charisma Reconsidered
Ford Versus 'Fordism
| Unique citing works | 8 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1 |
| Citation span | 2018 - 2026 (9) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 8 |