Scale and Scope

Author: Alfred D. Chandler Jr. (USA) and Zhang Yiren
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Publish Date: 2006-01-01
Features: Winner of the Leo Melamed Award from the University of Chicago Business School, and the 1990 Best Book Award in Business and Management from the American Publishers Association. Scale and Scope is another monumental work by Chandler following his Pulitzer Prize-winning The Visible Hand, compiling the author's decade-long research on corporate management systems. The book focuses on the competitive growth models of the United States, Germany, and the United Kingdom, tracing the evolution of large enterprises into global giants and providing direction for the most significant developments of the late 20th century. "From the 1920s to the 1970s, numerous studies worldwide on industrialization benefited from Chandler, who devoted his entire life to researching and exploring the rules and predictable patterns of industrial history. He gained profound insights into the transformations of capitalist enterprises caused by the growth of large industrialized firms, and his authority and influence were unmatched in the short term." "This book is extremely important. It depicts the evolution of the economic environment related to our lives, helping us avoid being blinded by certain ideologies or dogmas. It is based on thorough and comprehensive investigations at the national, industrial, and corporate levels. Chandler's work is filled with wisdom." "This is an immortal work that pushes us to deepen our understanding and interpretation of the success of modern industrial society."