Alfred D. Chandler, Jr., was Isidor Straus Professor of Business History at Harvard Business School.

Serious students of the worldwide industrialization that occurred in the century between the 1870s and the 1970s are indebted to Mr. Chandler…for a lifetime of determined effort to find order and predictable processes in industrial history… Chandler started out years ago to make sense out of the transformation of capitalist enterprise caused by the growth of giant industrial companies… He has succeeded with a power and authority that will not soon be matched.

• PART I Introduction: Scale and Scope 1. The Modem Industrial Enterprise 2. Scale, Scope, and Organizational Capabilities The New Institution Historical Attributes Economies of Scale and Scope in Production Economies of Scale and Scope in Distribution Building the Integrative Hierarchy First-Mover Advantages and Oligopolistic Competition Continuing Growth of the Modern Enterprise Horizontal and Vertical Combination Geographical Expansion and Product Diversification The Modern Enterprise in Labor-Intensive Industries PART II The United States: Competitive Managerial Capitalism

Alfred D. Chandler, Jr., was Isidor Straus Professor of Business History at Harvard Business School.

Serious students of the worldwide industrialization that occurred in the century between the 1870s and the 1970s are indebted to Mr. Chandler…for a lifetime of determined effort to find order and predictable processes in industrial history… Chandler started out years ago to make sense out of the transformation of capitalist enterprise caused by the growth of giant industrial companies… He has succeeded with a power and authority that will not soon be matched.

• PART I Introduction: Scale and Scope 1. The Modem Industrial Enterprise 2. Scale, Scope, and Organizational Capabilities The New Institution Historical Attributes Economies of Scale and Scope in Production Economies of Scale and Scope in Distribution Building the Integrative Hierarchy First-Mover Advantages and Oligopolistic Competition Continuing Growth of the Modern Enterprise Horizontal and Vertical Combination Geographical Expansion and Product Diversification The Modern Enterprise in Labor-Intensive Industries PART II The United States: Competitive Managerial Capitalism