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Against Whig History

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  • Lamoreaux, Naomi R.
  • Raff, Daniel M. G.
  • Temin, Peter

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By the end of the twentieth century, it had become clear that the grand synthesis laid out by Alfred D. Chandler, Jr., in The Visible Hand, Scale and Scope, and other writings was badly in need of revision. It was in need of revision because the type of enterprise that Chandler took to be the acme of capitalist economic organization–the large, vertically integrated, horizontally diversified, managerially directed corporation–was clearly in retreat. This development cast into doubt not only the substantive content of Chandler’s interpretation but also its methodological underpinnings.

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  • Lamoreaux, Naomi R. & Raff, Daniel M. G. & Temin, Peter, 2004. "Against Whig History," Enterprise & Society, Cambridge University Press, vol. 5(3), pages 376-387, September.
    • Handle: RePEc:cup:entsoc:v:5:y:2004:i:03:p:376-387_01
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    1. Leslie Hannah & Robert Bennett, 2022. "Large‐scale Victorian manufacturers: Reconstructing the lost 1881 UK employer census," Economic History Review, Economic History Society, vol. 75(3), pages 830-856, August.
    2. Susan Helper & Mari Sako, 2010. "Management innovation in supply chain: appreciating Chandler in the twenty-first century," Industrial and Corporate Change, Oxford University Press and the Associazione ICC, vol. 19(2), pages 399-429, April.
    3. Ferguson-Cradler, Gregory, 2022. "Corporate strategy in the Anthropocene: German electricity utilities and the nuclear sudden stop," Ecological Economics, Elsevier, vol. 195(C).
    4. Langlois, Richard N., 2013. "Business groups and the natural state," Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, Elsevier, vol. 88(C), pages 14-26.
    5. Batiz-Lazo, Bernardo & Maixe-Altes, J. Carles, 2008. "Organisational change and the computerisation of British and Spanish savings banks, circa 1965-1985," MPRA Paper 14479, University Library of Munich, Germany.
    6. Miller, Peter & Kurunmäki, Liisa & O'Leary, Ted, 2008. "Accounting, hybrids and the management of risk," Accounting, Organizations and Society, Elsevier, vol. 33(7-8), pages 942-967.

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