Growing size and impersonality of firms

There is increasingly a universal tendency for commercial institutions to expand, merge and aim at large size as a measure of success.

1. In the 1990s of contracted economic growth and high unemployment, business success is being redefined as the combination of superior information, identifying opportunity with temporary packages of capital, labour and appropriate technology used to exploit the opportunity, and then dispersed. This militates against large, even moderately large, firms with stable labour forces, research and training programmes.

1. Inhumanity
2. Excessive size of social institutions
3. Destabilizing corporate expansion

1. Growth in size of production unit

1. Rural unemployment
2. Restrictions against small enterprise
3. Reduced images of humanness
4. Insufficient small businesses
5. Ineffectiveness of individual participation in large communities

1. Preoccupation with increasing size
2. Bureaucracy as an organizational disease

1. Declining local businesses

1. Size limits on industry

1. Forced development
2. False economies of scale

1. Promoting small-scale human society

1. Syndrome
2. Overemphasis
3. Impersonality