Organizations ... The Smaller They Get
研究了美国经济过去三十年平均组织规模大幅下降的趋势，发现主要原因是制造业向服务业转移，并探讨了这种变化对不同行业管理带来的新挑战。
Average organizational size has declined sharply over the last thirty years in the American economy. This article documents this trend and examines a number of factors that may have produced it, including downsizing, sector shifting, and resource partitioning. It concludes that most of the decline in average firm size is attributable to the shift from manufacturing to services. This development presents important new challenges to management that vary according to the growth patterns of each industry.