Strategy and Structure
Chapters in the History of the Industrial Enterprise
Alfred D. Chandler
"Strategy and Structure" is a classic text that examines how the largest corporations in America dealt with the challenge of managing an expanding business. Based on intensive studies of General Motors, Dupont, Standard Oil of New Jersey, and Sears, Roebuck, this book explores the history of corporate expansion in America and the modern decentralized corporate structure developed by four major companies. This is a must-read for anyone interested in business history and corporate strategy.
Publish Date
1969-08-15T00:00:00.000Z
1969-08-15T00:00:00.000Z
first published in 1962
Goodreads Rating
3.8
ISBN
9781614275084
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Recommendations
1
Recommendations
2016-07-20T00:00:00.000Z
Strategy and Structure, like everything Chandler wrote, is brilliant — turgid (you can read one out every five pages and still get it), but brilliant. The fact that organizational charts were not found chiseled on the pyramids and the notion that structure follows strategy changed my life. Read it because we haven’t quite come up with an organizational model that solves the strategic problems we are facing today with the internet and disruption and speed. – source