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McCraw, Thomas K. (ed.). The Essential Alfred Chandler: Essays Toward a Historical Theory of Big Business. Boston, Mass.: Harvard Business School Press, 1988.
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| Introduction: The Intellectual Odyssey of Alfred D. Chandler, Jr. By Thomas
K. McCraw | 1 |
| 1. Henry Varnum Poor: Business Analyst | 22 |
| 2. The Beginnings of "Big Business" in American Industry | 46 |
| 3. Development, Diversification and Decentralization | 74 |
| 4. Recent Developments in American Business Administration and their Conceptualization
| 117 |
| 5. Introduction to Strategy and Structure | 156 |
| 6. The Railroads: Pioneers in Modern Corporate Management |
179 |
| 7. The Organization of Manufacturing and Transportation | 202 |
| 8. The Large Industrial Corporation and the Making of the Modern American
Economy | 225 |
| 9. The Structure of American Industry in the Twentieth Century: A Historical
Overview | 247 |
| 10. Comment [on the New Economic History] | 293 |
| 11. Business History as Institutional History | 301 |
| 12. Anthracite Coal and the Beginnings of the IndustrialRevolution in the
United States | 307 |
| 13. Decision Making and Modern Institutional Change | 343 |
| 14. The Development of Modern Management Structure in the US and UÊ
| 355 |
| 15. Introduction to The Visible Hand | 382 |
| 16. Administrative Coordination, Allocation and Monitoring: Concepts and
Comparisons | 398 |
| 17. Government Versus Business: An American Phenomenon | 425 |
| 18. Markets and Hierarchies: A Discussion | 432 |
| 19. Introduction to Scale and Scope | 465 |
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| Acknowledgments | 505 |
| A List of Chandler's Publications | 505 |
| Index | 519 |
