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Strategy and structure : chapters in the history of the industrial enterprise /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Chandler, Alfred D. (Alfred Dupont), 1918-2007
Corporate Author: NetLibrary, Inc
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, Mass. : M.I.T. Press, [1990]
Subjects:
Industrial management > United States > History.
Industrial organization > United States > History.
Corporations > United States > Case studies.
Administracao de empresas.
Organización industrial > EE. UU.
Corporaciones > EE. UU.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : strategy and structure
  • Historical setting
  • Du Pont : creating the autonomous divisions
  • General Motors : creating the general office
  • Standard Oil Company (New Jersey) : ad hoc reorganization
  • Sears, Roebuck and Company : decentralization, planned and unplanned
  • Organizational innovation : a comparative analysis
  • The spread of the multidivisional structure
  • Conclusion : chapters in the history of the great industrial enterprise.