The Essential Alfred Chandler

Essays Toward a Historical Theory of Big Business

• Author(s): Alfred Dupont Chandler,
• Publisher: Harvard Business School Press
• Pages: 538
• ISBN_10: 0875843069
  ISBN_13: 9780875843063
  
• Language: en
• Categories: Business & Economics / General , Business & Economics / Industries / General , Business & Economics / Industrial Management ,

Description:... In four decades of scholarship, Alfred Chandler has established himself as the acknowledged dean of business historians. Now available in paperback, this collection reveals the evolution of Chandler's theory and the enormous contribution that he has made to the field. Included are sixteen essays, as well as the table of contents and introductions to his three major books on business history: Strategy and Structure, The Visible Hand, and Scale and Scope. McCraw provides a capsule intellectual biography of Chandler, as well an introduction to each essay.