Scale and scope : the dynamics of industrial capitalism / Alfred D. Chandler, Jr ; with the assistance of Takashi Hikino.
"Scale and Scope concentrates on patterns of industrial growth and competitiveness in three leading industrial nations -- the United States, Germany, and Great Britain."--Page 2 of cover.
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Cambridge, Mass. :
Belknap Press of Harvard University Press,
1994.
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Table of Contents:
- Note to the Paperback Edition
- Acknowledgments
- Contents
- Part I
- Introduction: Scale and Scope
- 1. The Modern Industrial Enterprise
- 2. Scale, Scope, and Organizational Capabilities
- Part II
- The United States: Competitive Managerial Capitalism
- 3. The Foundations of Managerial Capitalism in American Industry
- 4. Creating Organizational Capabilities: Vertical Integration and Oligopolistic Competition
- 5. Expanding Organizational Capbilities: Investment Abroad and Product Diversification in Food and Chemicals.
- 6. Expanding Organizational Capbilites: Investment Abroad and Product Diversification in MachineryPart III
- Great Britain: Personal Capitalism
- 7. The Continuing Commitment to Personal Capitalism in British Industry
- 8. Creating Organizational Capabilites: Success and Failure in the Stable Industries
- 9. Creating Organizational Capabilites: Success and Failure in the Dynamic Industries
- Part IV
- Germany: Cooperative Managerial Capitalism
- 10. The Foundations of Managerial Capitalism in German Industry.
- 11. Creating Organizational Capabilities: The Lesser Industries12. Creating Organizational Capabilities: The Great Industries
- 13. War and Crises: Recovery in the Lesser Industries
- 14. Recovery in the Great Industries
- Conclusion: The Dynamics of Industrial Capitalism
- Notes
- Credits
- Index.