Strategy and Structure: Chapters in the History of the American Industrial EnterpriseMIT Press, 1969 M08 15 - 463 pages 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 companies—du Pont, General Motors, Standard Oil (New Jersey), and Sears, Roebuck. This 1990 reprint includes a new introduction by the author. |
Contents
INTRODUCTIONSTRATEGY AND STRUCTURE I | 1 |
HISTORICAL SETTING | 19 |
DU PONTCREATING THE AUTONOMOUS | 52 |
THE STRATEGY OF DIVERSIFICATION | 78 |
NEW STRUCTURe for the New STRATEGY | 91 |
GENERAL MOTORSCREATING | 114 |
THE SLOAN STRUCTURE | 130 |
PUTTING THE New Structure INTO OPERATION | 142 |
SEARS ROEBUCK AND COMPANYDECEN | 225 |
ABORTIVE DECENTRALIZATION | 241 |
EVOLUTIONARY DECENTRALIZATION | 261 |
ORGANIZATIONAL INNOVATION A COM | 283 |
THE SPREAD OF THE MULTIDIVISIONAL | 324 |
CONCLUSIONCHAPTERS IN THE HISTORY OF | 383 |
NOTES | 399 |
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Strategy and Structure: Chapters in the History of the American Industrial ... Alfred D. Chandler, Jr. No preview available - 1969 |
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