| The Visible Hand: The Managerial Revolution in American Business Revised Edition Contributor(s): Chandler, Alfred D. (Author) |
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ISBN: 0674940520 ISBN-13: 9780674940529 Publisher: Belknap Press OUR PRICE: $36.63 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: January 1993 Annotation: The role of large-scale business enterprise-big business and its managers-during the formative years of modern capitalism is delineated for the first time in this pathmarking book. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Business & Economics | Leadership - Business & Economics | Management - General - Business & Economics | Economics - General |
| Dewey: 658.4 |
| LCCN: 77001529 |
| Physical Information: 1.18" H x 6.26" W x 9.2" (1.74 lbs) 624 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |
Contributor Bio(s): Chandler, Alfred D.: - Alfred D. Chandler, Jr., was Isidor Straus Professor of Business History at Harvard Business School. |