European Company: Strategic Structure and Management Science

Author: (British) Huntington / Huang Yi-Yi et al
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Publish Date: 2005-04-01
Features: A long-selling classic in management literature, part of the "Management Frontiers Translation Series." A feast for entrepreneurs on the evolution of corporate strategy and structure in European companies. A masterpiece comparable to Chandler's renowned work "Strategy and Structure." Chandler highly recommended it as "the cornerstone of management." The colorful theoretical feast and solid empirical research on strategy and structure, economic culture, internationalization and specific national conditions, modernism and postmodernism are enough to place this book among the best management books of recent years. Strategy and structure, economic culture, internationalization and specific national conditions, modernism and postmodernism, a colorful theoretical feast and solid empirical research; all of this is enough to place this book among the best management books of recent years. This is a book about the large-company strategy and structure model of Harvard (Chandler), a work representing the voice and level of Europe. After appropriately examining various alternative views to Chandler's model, Huntington and Meyer rigorously tested the theory with their empirical evidence and convincingly reaffirmed the validity of Chandler's views on diversification and divisional structure.