Works
- My Years with General Motors, Edited by John McDonald with Catharine Stevens. Doubleday, Garden City, NY, 1964
In Organizational Structures
Known for
Building the General Motors divisional structure
Ideas
Coordinated decentralization at General Motors. The chief executive's own account of building General Motors' structure of divisions under a general office; Chandler (1962) credits Sloan with turning Durant's tiny top office into a coordinating, appraising, and policy-making general office. Caveat: A participant's memoir, graded as a practitioner account; its text was not checked, and Freeland (1996) disputes the efficiency reading of the General Motors story.