That the two necessarily go hand in hand, or that there is no need for some measure of governmental management in a world economy controlled by multinational corporate monoliths, is not at all historically clear.

But the corporate monoliths may not be quite as resistant to the new as they once were.

The future of human communication is not a corporate American monolith.

Corporations alone cannot successfully compete against foreign corporate monoliths in partnership with their governments.

Hiding behind the corporate monolith concerning oneself with the knowledge and deliverance of an employment contract that pays zero attention to customer service.

Back in 1998, Chrysler jumped into bed with Mercedes-Benz to form the globe-straddling corporate monolith that is DaimlerChrysler.

His pet project, a Web site called Gazoo.com, is widely regarded as evidence that Japan's corporate monoliths will find it far easier to thrive and compete in an information-technology-enriched economy than many experts originally imagined.

I've always been intrigued by how people turn corporate and technological culture to their own purposes, how people personalize the corporate monolith.

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Every day the difference dwindles between working in one of them and working for some corporate monolith.