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Martino Fine Books Strategy and Structure by Alfred D Chandler
2013 Reprint of 1962 Edition. Full facsimile of the original edition not reproduced with Optical Recognition Software. This classic text chosen for the 1964 Thomas Newcomen Award in Business History by the editors of Business History Review is based on intensive studies of General Motors Dupont Standard Oil of New Jersey and Sears Roebuck. Chandler shows how the seventy largest corporations in America have dealth with a single economic problem: the effective administration of an expanding business. The author summarizes the history of the expansion of the nations largest industries during the previous hundred years and then examines in depth the modern decentralized corporate structure as it was developed independently by four companiesGeneral Motors Dupont Standard Oil of New Jersey and Sears Roebuck.show more