Full name: The Visible Hand: The Managerial Revolution in American Business

Author: Alfred D. Chandler Jr. Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Business, History, Award winners Purchase/reserch links: Amazon Goodreads LibraryThing ISBNs: 9780674940529 0674940520

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 in this pathmarking book. Alfred Chandler, Jr., the distinguished business historian, sets forth the reasons for the dominance of big business in American transportation, communications, and the central sectors of production and distribution. The managerial revolution, presented here with force and conviction, is the story of how the visible hand of management replaced what Adam Smith called the 'invisible hand' of market forces. Chandler shows that the fundamental shift toward managers running large enterprises exerted a far greater influence in determining size and concentration in American industry than other factors so often cited as critical: the quality of entrepreneurship, the availability of capital, or public policy. Similar books: Barbarians at the Gate by Bryan Burrough American Steel by Richard Preston The Predators' Ball by Connie Bruck Strategy and Structure by Alfred D. Chandler Jr. The Company by John Micklethwait The Myth of the Robber Barons by Burton W. Folsom Wall Street by Charles R. Geisst Hamilton's Blessing by John Steele Gordon American Colossus by H. W. Brands The Market Revolution by Charles Sellers Origins of the Crash by Roger Lowenstein Scale and Scope by Alfred D. Chandler Jr. Against the Gods by Peter L. Bernstein A Piece of the Action by Joe Nocera Den of Thieves by James B. Stewart The Victorian Internet by Tom Standage Engines of Change by Paul Ingrassia Chocolate Wars by Deborah Cadbury Empire of Wealth by John Steele Gordon Console Wars by Blake J. Harris