This book assesses the work, ideas, and influence of the doyen of business historians, Alfred Chandler, particularly on management innovation, strategy, organization, and finance.

• I. Perspectives


• 1: William Lazonick: Alfred Chandler's Managerial Revolution


• 2: David Teece: The Dynamics of Industrial Capitalism: Perspectives on Alfred Chandler's Scale and Scope


• 3: David Teece: Alfred Chandler and 'Capabilities' Theories of Strategy and Management


• 4: William Lazonick: The Chandlerian Corporation and the Theory of Innovative Enterprise


• II. Strategy


• 5: Louis Galambos: The Role of Professionals in the Chandler Paradigm


• 6: Susan Helper and Mari Sako: Management Innovation in Supply Chain: Appreciating Chandler in the Twenty-First Century


• 7: Henrik Glimstedt, Donald Bratt, and Magnus P. Karlsson: The Decision to Make or Buy a Critical Technology: Semiconductors at Ericsson, 1980-2010


• III. Organization


• 8: Gary Pisano: The Evolution of Science-Based Businesses: Innovating How We Innovate


• 9: David Mowery: Alfred Chandler and Knowledge Management within the Firm


• 10: Peter Cappelli: The Rise and Decline of Managerial Development


• IV. Finance


• 11: Mary O'Sullivan: Finance of Industrial Enterprise


• 12: David Bardolet, Dan Lovallo, and Richard Rumelt: The Hand of Management in Capital Allocation

William Lazonick is Professor in the Department of Regional Economic and Social Development at University of Massachusetts Lowell and Director of the UMass Lowell Center for Industrial Competitiveness. He is also affiliated with the CNRS Groupe de Recherche en Économie Théorique et Appliquée of Université Montesquieu Bordeaux IV. He is the author or editor of twelve books, including Competitive Advantage of the Shop Floor (Harvard University Press, 1990) and Business Organization and the Myth of the Market Economy (Cambridge University Press, 1991), and some 100 academic articles.
David J. Teece is Thoma W. Tusher Professor in Global Business at the Hass Business School, University of California, Berkeley, where he is also Director of the Center for Global Strategy and Governance. He is listed as one of the World's Top 50 Leading Business Intellectuals by Accenture, and also listed by ScienceWatch as a top 10 scholar worldwide in economics and business for the decade 1995-2005, based on citation counts.