Drucker looks at the General Motors managerial organization from within during the closing years of World War II. He tries to understand what makes the company work so effectively, what are its core principles, and how they contribute to its successes. The themes his volumes addresses go far beyond the business corporation, into a consideration of the dynamics of the so-called corporate state itself.

INTRODUCTION TO THE TRANSACTION EDITION, PREFACE TO THE 1983 EDITION, PREFACE TO THE ORIGINAL EDITION, I CAPITALISM I N ONE COUNTRY, II THE CORPORATION AS HUMAN EFFORT, III. THE CORPORATION AS A SOCIAL INSTITUTION, IV. ECONOMIC POLICY IN AN INDUSTRIAL SOCIETY, EPILOGUE (1983), INDEX