Description: Representing ten years of research into the history of the managerial business system, this book concentrates on patterns of growth and competitiveness in the U.S., Germany, and Great Britain, tracing the evolution of large firms into multinational giants and orienting the late twentieth century's most important developments.
Brief description: Alfred D. Chandler, Jr., was Isidor Straus Professor of Business History at Harvard Business School.
Review Quotes: A major monument to our increasingly successful quest to understand and interpret the modern industrial world.--Sidney Pollard "Times Higher Education Supplement"