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Control in an Age of Empowerment - Robert Simons
CONTROL IN AN AGE
OF EMPOWERMENT
Harvard Business Review
CLASSICS
CONTROL IN AN AGE
OF EMPOWERMENT
Robert Simons
Harvard Business Press
Boston, Massachusetts
Copyright 2008 Harvard Business School Publishing Corporation
Originally published in Harvard Business Review in March 1995 and April 2000.
Reprint #95211
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Simons, Robert.
Control in an age of empowerment / Robert Simons.
p. cm. – (Harvard business review classics)
ISBN 978-1-4221-2672-1
1. Span of control. 2. Management. I. Title.
HD50.S56 2008
658.4–dc22
2008017538
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