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The Environment in a Historical Perspective

In: Strategic Management

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  • H. Igor Ansoff

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Modern business history in the United States starts roughly in the 1820s and 1830s. First the construction of a network of canals, and then of a nationwide railroad system, triggered a process of economic unification of the country. A stream of basic inventions — the steam engine, the cotton gin, the Bessemer steel process, the vulcanization of rubber — provided a technological base for a rapid industrial takeoff. Technological invention proceeded alongside social invention and the development of one of the most successful and influential organizations in history — the business firm.

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  • H. Igor Ansoff, 2007. "The Environment in a Historical Perspective," Palgrave Macmillan Books, in: Strategic Management, edition 0, chapter 3, pages 29-43, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-0-230-59060-1_4
    DOI: 10.1057/9780230590601_4
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