Books by Alfred D. Chandler

Here are obituaries .  Chandler’s The Visible Hand filled in the historical boxes of how large firms developed by learning to control their immediate economic environments.  He was a father of modern business history.  His writings were sometimes dry but he had an extraordinary sense of the newness of large-scale corporate organization and the importance of new preconditions for its emergence.  His Strategy and Structure integrated managerial theory and economics.  Much of his work brought toget...