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The Theory of the Business

Paperback • 2017 • English

The Theory of the Business

By Peter Ferdinand Drucker

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About the book

Peter F. Drucker argues that what underlies the current malaise of so many large and successful organizations worldwide is that their theory of the business no longer works. The story is a familiar one: a company that was a superstar only yesterday finds itself stagnating and frustrated, in trouble and, often, in a seemingly unmanageable crisis. The root cause of nearly every one of these crises is not that things are being done poorly. It is not even that the wrong things are being done. Indeed...Show more

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ISBN

9781633692527

Publisher

Harvard Business Review Press

Published year

2017

Language

English

Original title

The Theory of the Business

Format

Paperback

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