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11%OFFAlfred D. Chandler - The Visible Hand: The Managerial Revolution in American Business - 9780674940529 - V9780674940529
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The Visible Hand: The Managerial Revolution in American Business

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Description for The Visible Hand: The Managerial Revolution in American Business Paperback. Num Pages: 624 pages, 11 tables, 13 line illustrations, 2 maps. BIC Classification: 1KBB; KJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 232 x 160 x 31. Weight in Grams: 802.

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 ... Read more

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Product Details

Publisher
Harvard University Press
Number of pages
624
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1993
Condition
New
Number of Pages
624
Place of Publication
Cambridge, Mass., United States
ISBN
9780674940529
SKU
V9780674940529
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Ref
99-20

About Alfred D. Chandler
Alfred D. Chandler, Jr., was Isidor Straus Professor of Business History at Harvard Business School.

Reviews for The Visible Hand: The Managerial Revolution in American Business
The Visible Hand is a revolutionary work. Business history in the past was largely about entrepreneurs—either as ‘robber barons’ or ‘industrial statesmen.’ Chandler shifts the spotlight from the promoters to the managers… The Visible Hand is a superb book—a triumph of creative synthesis.
New Republic
Chandler’s book is a major contribution to economics, as well as to business ... Read more

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