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The Visible Hand: The Managerial Revolution in American Business

Alfred D. Chandler, Jr.

The Visible Hand: The Managerial Revolution in American Business

The role of large-scale business enterprise—big business and its managers—during the formative years of modern capitalism (1850s–1920s) is delineated in this pathmarking book. Alfred Chandler, Jr., sets forth the reasons for the dominance of big business in American transportation, communications, and central sectors of production and distribution.

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Publisher
Harvard University Press
Year
1977
ISBN-13
9780674940529
Genre
Business & Economics
Topics
Managerial capitalismCorporate historyIndustrialization

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