Across
- 2. the ownership or control of all enterprises comprising an entire industry
- 5. a secret organization made up of Pennsylvania coal miners, named for the famous Irish patriot, which worked through a series of scare tactics to bring the plight of the miners to public attention
- 7. mechanical engineer Fredrick Taylor’s management style, also called “stop-watch management,” which divided manufacturing tasks into short, repetitive segments and encouraged factory owners to seek efficiency and profitability over any benefits of personal interaction
- 8. the rally and subsequent riot in which several policemen were killed when a bomb was thrown at a peaceful workers rights rally in Chicago in 1886
- 9. method of growth wherein a company grows through mergers and acquisitions of similar companies
Down
- 1. a central corporate entity that controls the operations of multiple companies by holding the majority of stock for each enterprise
- 3. Herbert Spencer’s theory, based upon Charles Darwin’s scientific theory, which held that society developed much like plant or animal life through a process of evolution in which the most fit and capable enjoyed the greatest material and social success
- 4. a negative term for the big businessmen who made their fortunes in the massive railroad boom of the late nineteenth century
- 6. a method of growth where a company acquires other companies that include all aspects of a product’s lifecycle from the creation of the raw materials through the production process to the delivery of the final product
- 10. a legal arrangement where a small group of trustees have legal ownership of a business that they operate for the benefit of other investors