Managerial Hierarchies: Comparative Perspectives on the Rise of the Modern Industrial Enterprise (Harvard Studies in Business History)

The United States : Seedbed Of Managerial Capitalism / Alfred D. Chandler, Jr. -- Visible And Invisible Hands In Great Bitain / Leslie Hannah -- The Rise Of The Modern Industrial Enterprise In Germany / Jürgen Kocka -- The Large Corporation In Modern France / Maurice Lévy-leboyer -- Regulation Of Large Enterprise : The United States Experience In Comparative Perspective / Morton Keller -- Emergence Of The Visible Hand : Implications For Industrial Organization / Oliver E. Williamson -- The Rise Of The Modern Industrial Enterprise : A New Perspective / Herman Daems. Edited By Alfred D. Chandler, Jr. And Herman Daems. Essays ... Originally Presented At A Conference Held At The Harvard Business School On September 11-12, 1977. Includes Bibliographical References And Index. The concept of the "visible hand" in big business enterprise, so persuasively and brilliantly argued in Alfred D. Chandler's prizewinning volume (The Visible Hand: The Managerial Revolution in American Business), is tested and extended in this book. These essays show that the growth and complexity of managerial hierarchies ("visible hands") in large business firms are central to the organization of modern industrial activity. Leading American and European historians retrace and compare the historical evolution of the contemporary giant managerial hierarchies in the United States, Britain, Germany, and France. Argues that the organization of modern industrial activities depends on managerial hierarchies with the ability to grow and develop Harvard Studies in Business History XXXII