When I began research in the archives of these companies, I had assumed, following the conventional wisdom of the day, that divisionalization was a response to the need to decentralize decision-making, a need arising from the increasing size of the enterprise.Too many decisions were being made at the top and too few delegated to middle managers. Although the new structure was found to be the result of a need to
relieve the overload in decision-making at the top, it was due, not so much to the larger size of the enterprise pet se,