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Alfred D. Chandler Jr.
Visible Hand [EPUB ebook]

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The role of large-scale business enterprise-big business and its managers-during the formative years of modern capitalism (from the 1850s until the 1920s) is delineated in this pathmarking book. Alfred Chandler, Jr., the distinguished business historian, sets forth the reasons for the dominance of big business in American transportation, communications, and the central sectors of production and distribution.

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Language English ● Format EPUB ● Pages 624 ● ISBN 9780674417687 ● Publisher Harvard University Press ● Published 1993 ● Downloadable 6 times ● Currency EUR ● ID 2972198 ● Copy protection Adobe DRM

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