Strategy and structure: chapters in the history of the industrial enterprise / Alfred D. Chandler, Jr. ;

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: M.I.T. Press research monographs | M.I.T. Press research monographsPublication details: Cambridge : M.I.T. Press, 1962.Edition: First M.I.T. Press paperback editionDescription: xiv, 463 p. ; diagrams. 24 cmSubject(s): DDC classification:
  • 658
LOC classification:
  • HD 70 .U5 C5 1969
Contents:
Introduction - strategy and structure -- 1. Historical setting -- 2. Du Pont - creating the autonomous divisions 3. General Motors - creating the general office -- 4. Standard Oil Company (New Jersey) - ad hoc reorganization -- 5. Sears, Roebuck and Company - decentralization, planned and unplanned -- 6. Organizational innovation - a comparative analysis -- 7. The spread of the multidivisional structure -- Conclusion - chapters in the history of the great industrial enterprise
Summary: "This book shows how the seventy largest corporations in America have dealt with a single economic problem: the effective administration of an expanding business. The author summarizes the history of the expansion of the nation's largest industries during the past hundred years and then examines in depth the modern decentralized corporate structure as it was developed independently by four companies—du Pont, General Motors, Standard Oil (New Jersey), and Sears, Roebuck." -- publisher website.
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BOOKS BOOKS Niebyl-Proctor Marxist Library General Stacks The Karl H. Niebyl Collection HD 70.U5 C5 1969 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Not For Loan NPML19050020

Includes eight organizational charts.

Includes extensive end notes, some containing bibliographical references.

Bibliographical references included in "Notes" (p. 399-453)

Introduction - strategy and structure -- 1. Historical setting -- 2. Du Pont - creating the autonomous divisions 3. General Motors - creating the general office -- 4. Standard Oil Company (New Jersey) - ad hoc reorganization -- 5. Sears, Roebuck and Company - decentralization, planned and unplanned -- 6. Organizational innovation - a comparative analysis -- 7. The spread of the multidivisional structure -- Conclusion - chapters in the history of the great industrial enterprise

"This book shows how the seventy largest corporations in America have dealt with a single economic problem: the effective administration of an expanding business. The author summarizes the history of the expansion of the nation's largest industries during the past hundred years and then examines in depth the modern decentralized corporate structure as it was developed independently by four companies—du Pont, General Motors, Standard Oil (New Jersey), and Sears, Roebuck." -- publisher website.

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