Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A large-scale corporate system.
- noun A network of skilled professionals who control such a corporate system.
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- noun A
corporate structure includingtechnicians or other skilledprofessionals
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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I think the technostructure is a myth, and that the real reason is that power is wielded by the owners and managers of capital in the interest of maximizing profits and the rate of capital accumulation.
Alliance with Galbraith? Weisskopf, Walter A. 1974
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Galbraith is perhaps the best known representative of a long line of economists who emphasized the changes in American capitalism brought about by the growing size of corporations: internally, the separation of management and ownership and the professionalization of management of which the technostructure is the most recent manifestation; externally, the growing importance of market and monopoly power.
Alliance with Galbraith? Weisskopf, Walter A. 1974
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These grads staffed gigantic multidivisional organizations, which John Kenneth Galbraith once called the "technostructure."
The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com Christopher Newfield 2011
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Corporate bureaucrats — collectively, the "technostructure" — had pushed aside the entrepreneurs, proposed Galbraith channeling Thorstein Veblen.
The Non-Economist's Economist James Grant 2010
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John Kenneth Galbraith saw the college-trained middle classes forming a "technostructure" that ruled large corporations in
Eurozine articles Christopher Newfield 2010
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John Kenneth Galbraith saw the college-trained middle classes forming a "technostructure" that ruled large corporations in
Eurozine articles Christopher Newfield 2010
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John Kenneth Galbraith saw the college-trained middle classes forming a "technostructure" that ruled large corporations in
Eurozine articles Christopher Newfield 2010
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John Kenneth Galbraith saw the college-trained middle classes forming a "technostructure" that ruled large corporations in
Eurozine articles 2010
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"He (or she) is a passive and functionless figure, remarkable only on his capacity to share, without effort or even without appreciable risk, in the gains from the growth by which the technostructure measures its success," according to Galbraith.
The Non-Economist's Economist James Grant 2010
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Planning is what the technostructure does best — it seems to hate surprises.
The Non-Economist's Economist James Grant 2010
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