Scale and Scope: The Dynamics of Industrial Capitalism

by Alfred D. Chandler

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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.

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Alfred D. Chandler, Jr., received an A.B. in 1940 and a Ph.D. in 1952 from Harvard University. He is the Isidor Straus Professor of Business History, Emeritus, at Harvard Business School, where he has taught since 1970.

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Economics, Nonfiction, Business, History, General Nonfiction
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338.6Society, government, & cultureEconomicsProductionGuilds
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HD2785 .C474Social sciencesIndustries. Land use. LaborIndustries. Land use. LaborIndustryCorporations
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