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Concept for the Corporation by Peter F. Drucker

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has been given credit for serving as a catalyst for a new way of thinking about corporate management. Drucker looks at business and the corporate organization as its own unique  structure that serves to bring human beings into a relationship with one another that establishes both social and economic reasons. In fact, the text serves as something of a logical  segue or bridge from his earlier and much more socio-political books such as "The Future of Industrial Man" and "The End of Economic Man" to his purely managerial and corporate  studies. Considering the fact that it was first published more than half a century ago (1946) and established certain truths about humanity and their relationships in the corporate setting, one  has to wonder whether or not such truths are still legitimate in the 21st century. Chapter One In the first chapter, Drucker elaborates on the most fundamental truth  about Americans thinking about business and industry and that is that a free enterprise system is the best possible economic and political structure for a society. He explains that this  thinking requires that in America there is "... only one course open to American political and economic statesmanship: the attempt to make a free enterprise system work" (pp. 15). He  goes on to explain that the deep-seated beliefs and personal truths of Americans has created a climate in which all aspects of "modern" (1940s) life requires that the focus be  placed on the workability and success of free enterprise. Such an assertions about making the American free-enterprise system work "...depends not only [on] her stability at home but world peace"  (pp. 15). Considering the timeframe in which Drucker was writing and the very recent memories of war, such a concept served to reinforce the idea that the American way of