The Visible hand
Subtitle: the managerial revolution in American business
Publisher: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
Published: 1977
Place of publication: Cambridge, Mass
Language: eng
Number of pages: 608
Subjects: Industries; États; Histoire; Organisation, contrôle; Unis; Etats; Gestion d'entreprise; Industrie
Description: 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 for the first time in this pathmarking book. Alfred D. Chandler, Jr. the distinguished historian of business, sets forth the reasons for the dominance of big business in American transportation, communication and the central sectors of production and distribution.