{"product_id":"2026200015904-secondhand-corporation-man","title":"Corporation Man","description":"\u003cp\u003eEdition: 1972 Reprint\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition remarks:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBook: Good\u003cbr\u003eJacket: Worn\/faded, no tears\u003cbr\u003ePages: Good\u003cbr\u003eCondition remarks: Usual signs of aging on jacket - still bright and structural. Clean pages and block. Firm binding.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhat compels millions of men and women to subordinate their lives to the rhythm of the corporation — the meetings, the hierarchies, the unspoken rules — and can evolutionary biology explain why? In Corporation Man, Antony Jay presents a bold and provocative thesis: that the modern business organisation is not a rational invention of the industrial age, but rather the latest expression of a hunting band instinct hardwired into the human species over hundreds of thousands of years. Drawing on anthropology, history, and sharp observational wit, Jay argues that the small group — typically of around ten individuals — is the fundamental unit of human cooperation, and that the sprawling corporation succeeds or fails depending on how well it accommodates this ancient social architecture.\n\nJay writes with the incisive clarity of a man who has observed power and institutions at close quarters, bringing the same penetrating intelligence that distinguished his landmark work Management and Machiavelli. Corporation Man is at once a work of social science, a management treatise, and a quietly subversive critique of organisational life, challenging readers to see the office not as a modern construct but as a prehistoric campfire in a glass tower. For anyone who has ever wondered why large organisations so often frustrate the very people within them, Jay's analysis is as unsettling as it is revelatory.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Secondhand Stock","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49203266519259,"sku":"2026200015904-SECONDHAND","price":190.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/7646\/9701\/files\/4a04ab66-bc16-40f9-b362-4291666e9e37.png?v=1788146968","url":"https:\/\/bookgrocer.com\/products\/2026200015904-secondhand-corporation-man","provider":"Book Grocer","version":"1.0","type":"link"}