By Alfred Dupont Chandler
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Title | The visible hand: the managerial revolution in American business History e-book project |
Author | Alfred Dupont Chandler |
Edition | |
Publisher | Harvard University Press, 1977 |
ISBN | 0674940520, 9780674940529 |
Length | 608 pages |
Subjects | Business & Economics / Economic Conditions Business & Economics / Economics / General Business & Economics / General Business & Economics / Leadership Business & Economics / Management Business enterprises Business enterprises United States Management History Electronic books Empresas History / United States / General Industria Industrial management Industrial management - United States - History Industrial management/ United States/ History Industrial organization Industrial organization - United States - History Industrial organization United States History Industrial organization/ United States/ History Industries Industries - United States Industries United States Industries/ United States United States |
Book overview
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 critical: the quality of entrepreneurship, the availability of capital, or public policy. |