ABSTRACT
The origin of the National Association of Manufacturers stems from a decade of combinations par excellence. Between 1890 and 1900 more and larger combinations took place than in the entire preceding history of this country. The National Association of Manufacturers (NAM) was to serve as the "mother of associations", that all American industry might be organized from center to circumference. The Association has accomplished its ends sometimes by direct pressure of organized lobbies, sometimes by the aid of propaganda, and sometimes by the further organization of business interests along special trade, regional, or industrial lines. In 1933 the NAM and in 1936 the National Industrial Council (NIC) underwent general reorganization for the purpose of further centralizing control and tightening up the organizational structure. The principle underlying the organization of the prototype is called by Mooney and Reiley, the "scalar principle". The "scalar chain" is given effect through: Leadership, delegation, functional definition.
