Management Innovation: Essays in the Spirit of Alfred D. Chandler, Jr

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. Contributors to this volume - David Bardolet, Assistant Professor, Department of Management and Technology, University of Bocconi Donald Bratt, RF ASIC project manager at ST-Ericsson Peter Cappelli, George W. Taylor Professor of Management, The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, and Director of Wharton's Center for Human Resources Louis Galambos, Professor of History, the John Hopkins University Henrik Glimstedt, Associate Professor, Department of Marketing and Strategy, Stockholm School of Economics Susan Helper, Chair of Economics and AT&T Professor of Economics, Weatherhead School of Management, Case Western Reserve University Magnus P. Karlsson, LM Ericsson Dan Lovallo, Professor of Business Strategy, University of Sydney David Mowery, William A. & Betty H. Hasler Chair in New Enterprise Development, Hass School of Business, University of California, Berkeley Mary O'Sullivan, Professor of Economic History, the University of Geneva Gary Pisano, Harry E. Figgie Professor of Business Administration, the Harvard Business School Richard Rumelt, Harry and Elsa Kunin Chair in Business and Society, School of Management, UCLA Anderson Mari Sako, Professor of Management Studies, the Said Business School, University of Oxford