Management Innovation Essays in the Spirit of Alfred D. Chandler, Jr. [Hardcover]

Alfred D. Chandler, Jr. was, by general consensus, the pre-eminent business historian of the twentieth century. Through a prodigious body of work, Chandler made the study of the evolution of business enterprise integral to the study of the evolution of economy and society. His work combined detailed historical investigations with grand sociological syntheses. As a result, Chandler's study of the modern business enterprise invited social scientists and business academics as well as historians to contribute to our understanding of a central institution of our time.

Chandler revealed how managerial activity was central to the functioning of successful industrial corporations, and hence to the performance of the economy as a whole. This book gathers together contributions from management scholars fundamentally influenced by the work of Chandler to discuss management innovation, the ways in which people who exercise strategic control over the allocation of resources put in place organizational structures that can enable an enterprise to prosper and grow. The volume offers a range of perspectives to examine the challenges that corporate management encounters.

I. Perspectives
1. Alfred Chandler's Managerial Revolution,William Lazonick
2. The Dynamics of Industrial Capitalism: Perspectives on Alfred Chandler's Scale and Scope,David Teece
3. Alfred Chandler and 'Capabilities' Theories of Strategy and Management,David Teece
4. The Chandlerian Corporation and the Theory of Innovative Enterprise,William Lazonick
II. Strategy
5. The Role of Professionals in the Chandler Paradigm,Louis Galambos
6. Management Innovation in Supply Chain: Appreciating Chandler in the Twenty-First Century,Susan Helper and Mari Sako
7. The Decision to Make or Buy a Critical Technology: Semiconductors at Ericsson, 1980-2010,Henrik Glimstedt, Donald Bratt, and Magnus P. KarllCÇ