Scale and Scope is Alfred Chandler's first major work since his Pulitzer prize-winningThe Visible Hand. Representing ten years of research into the history of the managerial business system, this book
This book shows how the seventy largest corporations in America have dealt with a single economic problem: the effective administration of an expanding business. The author summarizes the history of
In this 1962 text, Chandler (emeritus, business history, Harvard Business School) comparatively examined the relationship between business strategy and administrative structure in the cases of General
The dean of business historians continues his masterful chronicle of the transforming revolutions of the twentieth century begun in Inventing the Electronic Century.Alfred Chandler argues that only wi
The role of large-scale business enterprise--big business and its managers--during the formative years of modern capitalism (from the 1850s until the 1920s is delineated in this pathmarking book. Alf
