Alfred D. Chandler Jr.

2013 Reprint of 1962 Edition. Full facsimile of the original edition, not reproduced with Optical Recognition Software. This classic text, chosen for the 1964 Thomas Newcomen Award in Business History by the editors of "Business History Review," is based on intensive studies of General Motors, Dupont, Standard Oil of New Jersey and Sears, Roebuck. Chandler shows how the seventy largest corporations in America have dealth with a single economic problem: the effective administration of an expanding business. The author summarizes the history of the expansion of the nation's largest industries during the previous hundred years and then examines in depth the modern decentralized corporate structure as it was developed independently by four companies--General Motors, Dupont, Standard Oil of New Jersey and Sears, Roebuck.

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. Alfred Chandler, Jr., the distinguished business historian, sets forth the reasons for the dominance of big business in American transportation, communications, and the central sectors of production and distribution.The managerial revolution, presented here with force and conviction, is the story of how the visible hand of management replaced what Adam Smith called the “invisible hand” of market forces. Chandler shows that the fundamental shift toward managers running large enterprises exerted a far greater influence in determining size and concentration in American industry than other factors so often cited as the quality of entrepreneurship, the availability of capital, or public policy.

With each critical turning point in the evolution of business, fundamentally new relationships between owners, workers and the government developed to meet the needs of the marketplace. Discuss these changes in American business management from a historical perspective using this casebook...now an integral component of the Harvard Business School curriculum. Authors Alfred D. Chandler, Jr., Thomas McCraw, and Richard S. Tedlow share their knowledge and expertise with you as you take a case-oriented journey through the archives of some of businessUs revolutionary moments.

Scale and Scope is Alfred Chandler’s first major work since his Pulitzer Prize–winning The Visible Hand . Representing ten years of research into the history of the managerial business system, this book concentrates on patterns of growth and competitiveness in the United States, Germany, and Great Britain, tracing the evolution of large firms into multinational giants and orienting the late twentieth century’s most important developments.This edition includes the entire hardcover edition with the exception of the Appendix Tables.

Consumer electronics and computers redefined life and work in the twentieth century. In Inventing the Electronic Century , Pulitzer Prize–winning business historian Alfred D. Chandler, Jr., traces their origins and worldwide development. From electronics prime mover RCA in the 1920s to Sony and Matsushita’s dramatic rise in the 1970s; from IBM’s dominance in computer technology in the 1950s to Microsoft’s stunning example of the creation of competitive advantage, this masterful analysis is essential reading for every manager and student of technology.

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 with consistent attention to research and development and an emphasis on long-term corporate strategies could firms remain successful over time. He details these processes for nearly every major chemical and pharmaceutical firm, demonstrating why some companies forged ahead while others failed.By the end of World War II, the chemical and pharmaceutical industries were transformed by the commercializing of new learning, the petrochemical and the antibiotic revolutions. But by the 1970s, chemical science was no longer providing the new learning necessary to commercialize more products, although new directions flourished in the pharmaceutical industries. In the 1980s, major drug companies, including Eli Lilly, Merck, and Schering Plough, commercialized the first biotechnology products, and as the twenty-first century began, the infrastructure of this biotechnology revolution was comparable to that of the second industrial revolution just before World War I and the information revolution of the 1960s. Shaping the Industrial Century is a major contribution to our understanding of the most dynamic industries of the modern era.

It is truly one of the finest business histories ever written by an author who won both the Pulitzer and Bancroft Prizes for History.

Collection of thirty cases used by the authors in teaching the course, The Coming of Managerial Capitalism, at the Harvard Business School. Printed in double-columned text.

This rare and vintage book is a perfect addition to any bibliophile's collection

A selection of writings documenting the growth of the American automobile industry from 1900 through 1957 by various authors.

Esta obra ofrece el resultado de una importante investigación acerca de la forma en la cual los estadounidenses abordaron la carretera de la información en el siglo XVIII. Para llevar un poco más lejos esta analogía, hacia 1800 los estadounidenses pudieron ver el proceso de construcción de carreteras (el sistema postal de su país y las carreteras para el transporte del correo), los reglamentos de tráfico (derechos de autor) y una variedad de vehículos de la información que atestaba las carreteras (por ejemplo periódicos, libros, folletos y pliegos impresos). Durante el siglo XIX, los estadounidenses aplicaron la electricidad y los intentos creativos para inventar o desarrollar a fondo las tecnologías clave de la información que se utilizaban en todo el el telégrafo, el teléfono, el fonógrafo y las películas cinematográficas, entre otras cosas. En el siglo XX siguieron añadiendo más vehículos a la carretera de la información, en especial la computadora y su versión más pequeña, la omnipresente computadora personal. En suma, los estadounidenses se han estado preparando para la era de la información durante más de 300 años. Esto no se inició con la introducción de la World Wide Web a principios de la década de 1990. El propósito de esta obra es demostrar ese hecho, indicando la forma en la cual los estadounidenses adoptaron la información como un material de construcción, decisivo de su mundo social, económico y político, y como intervinieron en el desarrollo y el despliegue masivo de las infraestructuras y las tecnologías que hicieron posible toda la exageración acerca de la era de la información que leemos en la actualidad.

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