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Alfred D. Chandler Jr.
Professor of business history at Harvard Business School; won a Pulitzer Prize for The Visible Hand and died in 2007.
Strategy and Structure established that firms adopt the multidivisional form once they diversify, and The Visible Hand showed how salaried managers displaced market coordination inside large American enterprises - the source texts for how conglomerates and holding companies are analysed. Scale and Scope extends the comparison to Britain and Germany and explains why different ownership patterns produced different corporate structures.
4 books of their own
Books they wrote 4
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- Strategy and StructureAlfred D. Chandler Jr., 1962
- The Visible HandAlfred D. Chandler Jr., 1977
- Scale and ScopeAlfred D. Chandler Jr., 1990
Alfred D. Chandler Jr. · 1962 · Sears is one of Chandler's four case studies in the multidivisional firm.
Alfred D. Chandler Jr. · 1977 · Pulitzer-winning account of why firms integrated and managers replaced markets.
Alfred D. Chandler Jr. · 1990 · Comparative history of managerial capitalism in three countries.
Alfred P. Sloan Jr. · 1963 · Insider account: Sloan's own record of decentralized management.