Recently added articles from Business History Review:
Alfred Chandler, Founder of Strategy: Lost Tradition and Renewed Inspiration
Jul 01, 2008; Whittington, Richard ... Richard Rumelt, Dan Schendel, and David Teece are clear: "The foundation of strategic management as a field may very well be traced to the 1962 publication of Chandler's Strategy and Structure."1 For these three doyens of strategy, Alfred Chandler was a fundamental influence on the shape of the ...
Alfred Chandler: His Vision and Achievement
Jul 01, 2008; McCraw, Thomas K ... How do we measure Alfred Chandler's achievement? What forces shaped his vision? What is his place in the pantheon of historians and social scientists? Might he rank with sociologists such as Talcort Parsons or even Max Weber? Economists such as Kenneth Arrow or even Joseph Schumpeter? With ...
Chandler and Global Business History
Jul 01, 2008; Wilkins, Mira ... What was Alfred D. Chandler's significance in the study of business history throughout the world? How did his views evolve? Why was his approach so influential? How did his thinking contribute to comparative business history and to the history of international business? This essay is designed to ...
Editors' Note
Jul 01, 2008; Anonymous ... With this issue, the editors of Business History Review announce several important changes. The new cover design, which features a picture of Harvard Business School's Baker Library, celebrates the journal's relationship with its sponsoring institution. Harvard Business School has a long ...
Chandler and the Sociology of Organizations
Jul 01, 2008; Fligstein, Neil ... I remember the first time I read Alfred Chandler's Strategy and Structure as a graduate student in the mid-1970s.1 I was taking a class on the sociology of organizations and finding that many of the assigned books and articles did not interest me. Corporations are clearly one of the dominant ...
Lessons from Al, Revisited
Jul 01, 2008; Yeager, Mary A ... Once upon a time, in the 1950s, Alfred Chandler was a student of history, doing what most young, untenured assistant professors of history do. He was applying for a grant. His aim was to conduct research on the 1927 reorganization of the Standard Oil Corporation of New Jersey for a chapter in a ...
Chandler and Business History in Japan
Jul 01, 2008; Anchordoguy, Marie ... The work and ideas of Alfred D. Chandler Jr. have enriched the field of Japanese business history and our understanding of that nation's industrial development. Chandler's studies about the rise of the large, professionally managed, multidivisional firm in the United States highlight factors ...
Chandler's Paths of Learning
Jul 01, 2008; Miranti, Paul J ... In his last two major works, Inventing the Electronic Century and Shaping the Industrial Century, Alfred Chandler extended his wellknown historical model put forth originally in Strategy and Structure, The Visible Hand, and Scale and Scope by drawing on insights from scholarship dealing with ...
Measuring Chandler's Impact on European Business Studies since the 1960s
Jul 01, 2008; Iversen, Martin Jes ... Recently, a number of groups sponsored large international research .. projects that are concerned with business history. Harm G. Schröter's group investigated the European integration that followed the Treaty of Rome in 1957 in order to discover whether it had led to the appearance of a ...
Turner, Beard, Chandler: Progressive Historians
Jul 01, 2008; John, Richard R ... For almost half a century, Alfred D. Chandler Jr. has enjoyed an enviable reputation as the most influential business historian in the world. Chandlerian business history is a mainstay of the "new" institutionalism that John Higham discerned over four decades ago in a justly admired survey of ...
Announcements
Jul 01, 2008; Anonymous ... ALFRED D. CHANDLER JR. INTERNATIONAL VISITING SCHOLARS in BUSINESS HISTORY PROGRAM invites established scholars in business history based outside the United States to spend a period of time in residence at Harvard Business School. The primary activities of Alfred D. Chandler Jr. International ...
The European Perspective
Jul 01, 2008; Amdam, Rolv Petter ... From a European perspective, Khurana reveals important parallels in the trajectories of U.S. and European business education. During the last decades of the nineteenth century, business education on both continents emerged from the framework of local vocational schools. Pioneering European ...
Business Education in Spain
Jul 01, 2008; Puig, Nuria ... American-style business schools have been more successful in Spain than elsewhere in Europe. Since they were first established exactly fifty years ago, they have been effective vehicles of social and economic modernization.25 Furthermore, Spanish business schools have not noticeably departed ...
The U.K. Perspective
Jul 01, 2008; Wilson, John F ... The U.K. Perspective Rakesh Khurana is by no means the first scholar to criticize the business-school movement for failing to generate the appropriate mentality and the kinds of professional and managerial skills that are required to maintain an efficient and balanced society. With this ...
A Nation of Counterfeiters: Capitalists, Con Men, and the Making of the United States
Jul 01, 2008; Balleisen, Edward ... A Nation of Counterfeiters: Capitalists, Con Men, and the Making of the United States. By Stephen Mihm. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2007. xii + 457 pp. Illustrations, notes, index. Cloth, $29.95. ISBN: 978-0-674-02657-5. Reviewed by Edward Balleisen A Nation of ...
Slavery and the Commerce Power: How the Struggle Against the Interstate Slave Trade Led to the Civil War
Jul 01, 2008; Green, Michael S ... Slavery and the Commerce Power: How the Struggle Against the Interstate Slave Trade Led to the Civil War. By David L. Lightner. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2006. xii -I- 228 pp. Index, notes, illustrations. Cloth, $45.00. ISBN: 0-300-11470-2. Reviewed by Michael S ....
Fraude, contrefaçon et contrebande de l'Antiquité à nos jours [Fraud, Counterfeiting, and Contraband from Antiquity to Today]
Jul 01, 2008; Horn, Jeff ... Fraude, contrefaçon et contrebande de l'Antiquité à nos jours [Fraud, Counterfeiting, and Contraband from Antiquity to Today]. Edited by Gerard Béaur, Hubert Bonin, and Claire Lemercier. Geneva: Droz, 2006. 829 pp. Figures, illustrations, notes, index. CHF80.00. ISBN: ...
American Silk, 1830-1930: Entrepreneurs and Artifacts
Jul 01, 2008; Friedman, Tami J ... American Silk, 1830-1930: Entrepreneurs and Artifacts. By Jacqueline Field, Marjorie Seneschal, and Madelyn Shaw. Lubbock: Texas Tech University Press, 2007. xxiv + 326 pp. Tables, glossary, illustrations, appendix, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $45.00. ISBN: ...
Tied to the Great Packing Machine: The Midwest and Meatpacking
Jul 01, 2008; Hamilton, Shane ... Tied to the Great Packing Machine: The Midwest and Meatpacking. By Wilson J. Warren. Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 2007. xii + 317 pp. Illustrations, maps, tables, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $39.95. ISBN: 978-1-587-29536-2. Reviewed by Shane Hamilton For most ...
William F. Cody's Wyoming Empire: The Buffalo Bill Nobody Knows
Jul 01, 2008; Adamson, Michael R ... William F. Cody's Wyoming Empire: The Buffalo Bill Nobody Knows. By Robert E. Bonner. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2007. xxii + 318 pp. Illustrations, maps, photographs, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $32.95. ISBN: 978-0-806-13829-9. Reviewed by Michael R ....