Scale and Scope

The Dynamics of Industrial Capitalism

Alfred D. Chandler, Jr.

  • Winner of the Leo Melamed Prize of the University of Chicago Graduate School of Business and the Association of American Publishers 1990 award for the best book in Business and Management.

PART I

Introduction: Scale and Scope

1. The Modem Industrial Enterprise

2. Scale, Scope, and Organizational Capabilities

The New Institution

Historical Attributes

Economies of Scale and Scope in Production

Economies of Scale and Scope in Distribution

Building the Integrative Hierarchy

First-Mover Advantages and Oligopolistic Competition

Continuing Growth of the Modern Enterprise

Horizontal and Vertical Combination

Geographical Expansion and Product Diversification

The Modern Enterprise in Labor-Intensive Industries

PART II

The United States: Competitive Managerial Capitalism

  • Cover: Scale and Scope

Bachrach Photography

Alfred D. Chandler, Jr., was Isidor Straus Professor of Business History at Harvard Business School.