The Visible Hand: The Managerial Revolution in American BusinessHarvard University Press, 1977 - 608 páginas 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. |
Contenido
The Visible Hand I | 1 |
The Traditional Processes | 13 |
The Traditional Enterprise in Production | 50 |
The Revolution in Transportation | 79 |
Railroad Cooperation and Competition 1870s1880s | 122 |
SystemBuilding 1880s1900s | 145 |
Completing the Infrastructure | 188 |
8 | 240 |
Integration Completed | 345 |
2 | 377 |
Function and Structure | 415 |
The Maturing of Modern Business Enterprise | 455 |
The Ascendancy of the Manager | 490 |
SeedBed of Managerial Capitalism | 498 |
Notes | 515 |
587 | |