Titlebook: Management Strategy and Business Development; An Historical and Co Leslie Hannah Book 1976 Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publ

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The Chandler Thesis—Some General Observationsan increasing level of sophistication of analysis; but this has not been matched by related efforts at building up a more general explanation of the process of change in business organisation and development. It may be that one reason for this is that the tradition of the heroic (or notorious) entre

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A Family Firm becomes a Public Company: Changes at Pilkington Brothers Limited in the Interwar Yearsits shares to the general public until 1970. Yet I have chosen this title because, from the management point of view, Pilkington Brothers Limited continued to manifest the features of a family firm until 1931 when, unable to stand the strain any longer, a major reorganisation occurred which took the

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Strategy and Structure at Boots the Chemistseir pre-eminence in the period from the 1880s to the end of the First World War. Each was built by a super-salesman whose sense of market opportunity, combined with personality, stamina, and drive, created a huge new vertically integrated enterprise. The careers of these empire builders found a stri

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Institutional Response to Economic Growth: Capital Markets in Britain to 1914e institutions operate. Thus, for example, Alfred Chandler has shown that the adoption by firms of the multi-divisional form of organisation in the US, beginning in the first quarter of the twentieth century, was an explicit response to the problems and opportunities of rapid growth and change in th

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Strategy and Structure in the Manufacturing Sectorial part of the production process — capital and labour being those most commonly evaluated, for example — but these are both more readily defined and more easily quantified. than the vital input of entrepreneurial skill which in part determines the extent, and efficiency, of the use of such inputs

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The Strategy of Sales Expansion in the British Electricity Supply Industry between the Warsed by the adoption of a new strategy. But why did the new strategy arise in the first place? Chandler’s answer to this question is in two parts. The first refers to factors external to the firm: the new strategy came ‘in response to the opportunities and needs created by changing population and chan

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Directions for Future Researchection of future research in this general field. Some of them have already been adequately considered either in the editorial introduction or in the observations by Dr Alford and therefore require no repetition here; others deserve further emphasis, and several additional issues — the nature of whic