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Strategy and Structure: Chapters in the History of the American Industrial Enterprise
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 658.4021
EAN: 9780262530095
ISBN: 0262530090
Label: The MIT Press
Manufacturer: The MIT Press
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 480
Publication Date: August 15, 1969
Publisher: The MIT Press
Studio: The MIT Press
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Editorial Review:
This book shows how the seventy largest corporations in America have dealt with a single economic problem: the effective administration of an expanding business. The author summarizes the history of the expansion of the nation's largest industries during the past hundred years and then examines in depth the modern decentralized corporate structure as it was developed independently by four companiesâdu Pont, General Motors, Standard Oil (New Jersey), and Sears, Roebuck. This 1990 reprint includes a new introduction by the author.
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Rating:  - Such a great fundamental perspective on the analysis of a business
The early wrestling with the (at that time) new corporate structure and the optimal construction of hierarchy and communication chains is probably the best treatment of how to analyze a corporate structure. Viewed from what I would consider to be the outside, before business books became a form of trash novel, Chandler's construction of what we now consider the bedrock of strategic analysis is still one of the best conveyers of the perspective needed to truly understand the corporate world. It is ... Read More
Rating: - Strategy drives structure while structure drives strategy
Chandler's book is excellent and I find myself reading it again and again as I mature as a manager. I ask myself why do some organizations act and seem so different from others? Well, Chandler's book points the way to at least some of those reasons. Using Harvard's Case Method, Chandler is Professor Emeritus at the Harvard Business School, his facts are presented in a context - a story problem if you will. Crisply written, his chapters show how large corporations struggled with organizing themselves ... Read More
Rating:  - Strategy and Structure
This book is a management "classic" and tells how American corporations have dealt with a common economic problem - the effective administration of an expanding business. Chandler's main point is that the structure of a company depends on the strategy of the company - a company must determine its strategy before it can organize properly. He also feels that corporations have two management tiers. VP's or executives set the vision of the company and then managers execute the vision.
Chandler ... Read More
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