Peer reviewedERIC Number: EJ538418
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 1996
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ISSN: ISSN-0882-228X
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Taking Care of Business: Walter Carpenter and the Management of American Enterprise.
Cheape, Charles W.
OAH Magazine of History, v11 n1 p17-21 Fall 1996
Evaluates the life and career of DuPont corporate executive, Walter Carpenter, and uses it to illustrate the rise of the managerial class. Neither owners nor entrepreneurs, managers like Carpenter used their intelligence and skill to reorganize and expand the companies the companies where they worked. (MJP)
Descriptors: Administrators, Business, Business Administration, Business Cycles, Corporations, Democratic Values, Economic Impact, Free Enterprise System, Management Development, Management Systems, Managerial Occupations, Marketing, Personal Narratives, Secondary Education, Social History, Social Studies, Undergraduate Study, United States History
Publication Type: Reports - Descriptive; Journal Articles
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Audience: Teachers; Practitioners
Language: English
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