Strategy and Structure

Alfred D. Chandler

How did American big business invent the administrative structures needed to run ever larger and more varied enterprises?

At a glance

You will see why a way of managing that works for a short road breaks down on a long one
You will learn a test for organizing work: coordinate related effort and segregate unrelated effort, not simply group like things
You will question running a company through a committee of department heads, since one report found no adequate directing and coordinating force