Louis Galambos
Biographic Data
| ID | 274356 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Louis Galambos |
| GIVEN NAMES | Louis |
| FAMILY NAME | Galambos |
| SIGNATURE | GALAMBOS L |
| AFFILIATIONS | Johns Hopkins University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 69 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 240 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 69 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1962 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
The Entrepreneurial Culture and Bureaucracy in Twentieth-Century America
America’s entrepreneurial culture is important because it promotes the search for new opportunities for innovation. Here, the author traces that culture through two industrial revolutions and focuses on the growing tension between entrepreneurship and bureaucracy inside and outside of the nation’s twentieth-century firms. Business histories are explored using categories adapted from behavioral economics. Particular attention is devoted to some of…
Entrepreneurial History in Motion: A Reply to R. Daniel Wadhwani’s Comment
Galambos and Amatori applaud this discourse over entrepreneurship but contend that the multiplier is not a metaphor. They acknowledge Wadhwani’s insightful analyses and look forward to further fruitful discussions focused on innovation, capitalism’s major strength. They briefly argue for scalar evaluations rather than binary evaluations of innovation and the socio-economic problems they inevitably create
Commercializing science and promoting academic innovation
This commentary reviews the scholarly contributions of the several authors to the pre-history of industrial research, a subject that has been largely ignored in previous works in the field. While finding much to approve in all of the contributions, the commentator objects to the use of the word “entrepreneur” to describe those innovators who develop new academic institutions
Technological Innovation in Legacy Sectors by William B. Bonvillian and Charles Weiss
Reviewed by: Technological Innovation in Legacy Sectorsby William B. Bonvillian and Charles Weiss Louis Galambos (bio) Technological Innovation in Legacy Sectors. by William B. Bonvillian and Charles Weiss. New York: Oxford University Press, 2015. Pp. 384. $55. William B. Bonvillian and Charles Weiss have launched an ambitious and important quest with their study of Technological Innovation in Legacy Sectors. The legacy sectors are those in the U…
The Entrepreneurial Multiplier Effect
Since the Keynesian revolution in economics, a standard part of the profession’s analytical framework, and an argument for government support for investment, has been the multiplier concept. This classical multiplier works through consumption in an equilibrium model. Our contention is that there is also an entrepreneurial multiplier that works directly through investment by incentivizing or forcing investments in innovation in a dynamic, disequil…
Opinions: Business History and Anthropology
No available abstract
The Creative Society – and the Price Americans Paid for It: And the Price Americans Paid for It
The Creative Society is the first history to look at modern America through the eyes of its emerging ranks of professional experts, including lawyers, scientists, doctors, administrators, business managers, teachers, policy specialists and urban planners. Covering the period from the 1890s to the early twenty-first century, Louis Galambos examines the history that shaped professionals and, in turn, their role in shaping modern America. He conside…
Reflections on Alfred D. Chandler, Jr
Once, long ago, I was teaching business and economic history at Rice University in Houston, Texas. Alas,my academic career was stalled in the early 1960s. A distinguished Yale professor had kept the revised manuscript of my dissertation sitting on his desk for a year without reading it or submitting a report to the press. Meanwhile, I had just learned that editors do not want to publish fifty-page academic articles. I was having a wonderful time …
Innovation in the Pharmaceutical Industry: The Process of Drug Discovery and Development (review)
Reviewed by: Innovation in the Pharmaceutical Industry: The Process of Drug Discovery and Development Louis Galambos Takuji Hara . Innovation in the Pharmaceutical Industry: The Process of Drug Discovery and Development. Cheltenham, U.K.: Edward Elgar, 2003. ix + 271 pp. Ill. $95.00 (1-84376-050-9). Two complex historical phenomena have brought innovation to center stage in a number of academic disciplines and in policy circles during the past fe…
Recasting the Organizational Synthesis: Structure and Process in the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries
Two major forces have been remaking the organizational setting of the United States in the recent past. The third industrial revolution and globalization are having a dramatic impact on the structure and process of American economic institutions and on the nation's political process. This third version of the organizational synthesis probes, with varying degrees of success, the vast literature that has accumulated around these two themes in the y…
The Papers of Dwight David Eisenhower
The Papers of Dwight David Eisenhower
Anytime, Anywhere: Entrepreneurship and the Creation of a Wireless World
Founded in 1974, the Canadian Journal of Communication (CJC) aims to publish Canadian research and scholarship in the field of communication studies. The purview of the journal is the entire field of communication studies as practiced in Canada or with relevance to Canada
The Papers of Dwight David Eisenhower
The Papers of Dwight David Eisenhower
Socializing Capital: The Rise of the Large Industrial Corporation in America
Networks of Innovation: Vaccine Development at Merck, Sharp, and Dohme, and Mulford, 1895-1995
Journal Article Networks of Innovation: Vaccine Development at Merck, Sharp, & Dohme, and Mulford, 1895–1995. By Louis Galambos with Jane Eliot Sewell. (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1995. xii, 274 pp. $39.95, ISBN 0-521-56308-9.) Get access David B. Sicilia David B. Sicilia University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 85, Issue …
Pharmaceutical Firms and the Transition to Biotechnology: A Study in Strategic Innovation
During the twentieth century, the pharmaceutical industry experienced a series of dramatic changes as developments in science and technology generated new opportunities for innovation. Each of these transitions forced existing firms to develop new capabilities. The authors examine the most recent such transition, the shift to molecular genetics and recombinant DNA technology (1970 to the present), and explain how and why this transformation diffe…
Evolutionary Innovations: The Business of Biotechnology
Evolutionary Innovations: The Business of Biotechnology by Maureen D. McKelvey
332 Book Reviews TECHNOLOGY AND CULTURE other and at themselves” (p. 297). Some historians of science and technology might express concern with this tidy origin story. Thomas Kuhn, for instance, used the ambiguity of Roentgen’s “dis covery”—8 November 1895? 22 December 1895? 5 January 1896?— to illustrate the difficulty of singling out revolutionary individuals or moments. One might also raise further questions regarding issues of socialjustice …
Global Perspectives on Modern Business
The dominant paradigm in business history has for many years been the synthesis developed by Alfred D. Chandler, Jr. Like most paradigms that define a field of scholarship, Chandler's has attracted swarms of devotees and critics, and for some years, it was customary to perform a ritual bow toward his work in the first or second paragraph of any article appearing in the Business History Review . This was true whether the substance of the article a…
The pharmaceutical industry in the twentieth century: A reappraisal of the sources of innovation
The authors use an historical case‐study of a single line of therapeutic development (in vaccines and serum antitoxins) to bring out salient aspects of the shifting sources of innovation in the pharmaceutical industry during the twentieth century. Their emphasis is on the complex relationships that have evolved between three companies ‐ Mulford, Sharp & Dohme, and Merck & Co., Inc. ‐ and the loosely integrated networks of public, profit‐making, a…
Paying Up: The Price of the Vietnam War
Robert S. McNamara recently raised a stir about America's involvement in the Vietnam War. In Retrospect: The Tragedy and Lessons of Vietnam , his personal apology for his role as Secretary of Defense (1961–68) during the first phase of the war, shot to the top of the best-seller lists. But the author was surely more interested in uncovering some forgiveness, some sympathy for his plight, than he was in royalties. If so, he certainly must be disap…
Organizing and Reorganizing the World Bank, 1946–1972: A Comparative Perspective
Using a Chandlerian strategy/structure framework for comparative purposes, the authors examine the early development of an important public institution, The World Bank Group. As they demonstrate, The Bank gradually evolved toward the model provided by the multidivisional or M-form corporation. In its early years, The Bank was a centralized organization with functional departments and a unique check and balance system to control lending. Guided by…
The Papers of Dwight David Eisenhower. Vols. 12 and 13: Nato and the Campaign of 1952
Journal Article The Papers of Dwight David Eisenhower. Vols. 12 and 13: NATO and the Campaign of 1952. Ed. by Louis Galambos, Daun van Ee, Elizabeth S. Hughes, Robert J. Brugger, Kathleen Craig, Gerald J. Conti, Janet Seraphine, and Faith Townsend. (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1989. xxxii, 1707 pp. $85.00/2-vol. set.) Get access Alfred F. Hurley Alfred F. Hurley University of North Texas, Denton, Texas Search for other works by thi…
The Emerging Organizational Synthesis In Modern American History
Almost unnoticed in the midst of revisionist attacks on progressive history and the rise of the New Left, an organizational synthesis has been emerging which offers much to the student of modern America. Professor Galambos presents a historiographical survey of this synthesis and concludes that its chief strength is a mode of analysis blending the traditional tools of historical thought with ideas from the behavioral sciences
Technology, Political Economy, and Professionalization: Central Themes of the Organizational Synthesis
In this suggestive essay, Professor Galambos surveys the large number of books and articles, published since 1970, that together point toward a new “organizational synthesis” in American history. Expanding upon an earlier, more tentative essay on the same subject published in the Autumn 1970 issue of the Business History Review, he contrasts the widely disparate postures adopted in recent years by historians studying organizational behavior. His …
Recasting the Organizational Synthesis: Structure and Process in the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries
Two major forces have been remaking the organizational setting of the United States in the recent past. The third industrial revolution and globalization are having a dramatic impact on the structure and process of American economic institutions and on the nation's political process. This third version of the organizational synthesis probes, with varying degrees of success, the vast literature that has accumulated around these two themes in the y…
Pharmaceutical Firms and the Transition to Biotechnology: A Study in Strategic Innovation
During the twentieth century, the pharmaceutical industry experienced a series of dramatic changes as developments in science and technology generated new opportunities for innovation. Each of these transitions forced existing firms to develop new capabilities. The authors examine the most recent such transition, the shift to molecular genetics and recombinant DNA technology (1970 to the present), and explain how and why this transformation diffe…
The Development of Large-Scale Economic Organizations in Modern America
Scholars interested in modern industrial economies have for years devoted substantial attention to the growth and performance of large-scale organizations. Many of their studies have been the intellectual heirs of Max Weber's brilliant analysis of bureaucracy, for it is the bureaucratic structure of authority which most often characterizes such organizations in the modern period. Economists, historians, and sociologists are all in debt to Weber f…
The Entrepreneurial Multiplier Effect
Since the Keynesian revolution in economics, a standard part of the profession’s analytical framework, and an argument for government support for investment, has been the multiplier concept. This classical multiplier works through consumption in an equilibrium model. Our contention is that there is also an entrepreneurial multiplier that works directly through investment by incentivizing or forcing investments in innovation in a dynamic, disequil…
Theodore N. Vail and the Role of Innovation in the Modern Bell System
The record of long–term innovation at the American Telegraph and Telephone Company seems to defy conventional economic and social theories of the firm. The following essay, based on extensive research in the AT&T Archives, argues that CEO Theodore Vail made this possible by transforming the Bell System's orientation to innovation, its structure, and its culture. He also gave the System a cadre of leaders who sustained over the long term Vail's st…
Organizing and Reorganizing the World Bank, 1946–1972: A Comparative Perspective
Using a Chandlerian strategy/structure framework for comparative purposes, the authors examine the early development of an important public institution, The World Bank Group. As they demonstrate, The Bank gradually evolved toward the model provided by the multidivisional or M-form corporation. In its early years, The Bank was a centralized organization with functional departments and a unique check and balance system to control lending. Guided by…
Global Perspectives on Modern Business
The dominant paradigm in business history has for many years been the synthesis developed by Alfred D. Chandler, Jr. Like most paradigms that define a field of scholarship, Chandler's has attracted swarms of devotees and critics, and for some years, it was customary to perform a ritual bow toward his work in the first or second paragraph of any article appearing in the Business History Review . This was true whether the substance of the article a…
Anytime, Anywhere: Entrepreneurship and the Creation of a Wireless World
Founded in 1974, the Canadian Journal of Communication (CJC) aims to publish Canadian research and scholarship in the field of communication studies. The purview of the journal is the entire field of communication studies as practiced in Canada or with relevance to Canada
What Have CEOs Been Doing
The author traces and evaluates the major trends in the history and theory of the modern corporation: the literature dealing with market control, the New Business History that emphasizes efficiency, and recent developments by the Chicago School and the theorists of transactions costs. He concludes with an analysis of the recent problems U.S. corporations have experienced in managing innovation
The Agrarian Image of the Large Corporation, 1879–1920: A Study in Social Accommodation
For many years a relatively small number dominated the private sector of the American of the American economy. Most of the nation's goods and a substantial part of its services are produced and distributed by very large corporations. Of late, most Americans seem unconcerned about this fact. They regard big business with equanimity, even approval, and as Richard Hofstadter points out, antitrust has become “one of the faded passions of American ref…
America at Middle Age: A New History of the United States in the Twentieth Century
Journal Article America at Middle Age: A New History of the United States in the Twentieth Century. By Louis Galambos. (New York: McGraw-Hill [1982]. vii + 164 pp. Notes and index. $14.95.) Get access Alan Brinkley Alan Brinkley Harvard University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 71, Issue 1, June 1984, Pages 154–155, https://doi.org/10.2307/1899893 Published: 01 June 198…
Entrepreneurial History in Motion: A Reply to R. Daniel Wadhwani’s Comment
Galambos and Amatori applaud this discourse over entrepreneurship but contend that the multiplier is not a metaphor. They acknowledge Wadhwani’s insightful analyses and look forward to further fruitful discussions focused on innovation, capitalism’s major strength. They briefly argue for scalar evaluations rather than binary evaluations of innovation and the socio-economic problems they inevitably create
Opinions: Business History and Anthropology
No available abstract
Reflections on Alfred D. Chandler, Jr
Once, long ago, I was teaching business and economic history at Rice University in Houston, Texas. Alas,my academic career was stalled in the early 1960s. A distinguished Yale professor had kept the revised manuscript of my dissertation sitting on his desk for a year without reading it or submitting a report to the press. Meanwhile, I had just learned that editors do not want to publish fifty-page academic articles. I was having a wonderful time …
Canals and American Economic Development
Mississippi Harvest: Lumbering in the Longleaf Pine Belt, 1840-1915
The Cotton-Textile Institute and the Government: A Case Study in Interacting Value Systems
The process of mutual accommodation between government and business in the United States is well illustrated in this study of the strategy and tactics of a key twentieth-century business association
Competition & Cooperation: The Emergence of a National Trade Association
Competition & Cooperation: The Emergence of a National Trade Association
Journal Article Competition & Cooperation: The Emergence of a National Trade Association. By Louis Galambos. (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Press, 1966. xii + 329 pp. Notes, bibliography, and index. $7.50.) Get access Cedric B. Cowing Cedric B. Cowing University of Hawaii Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 53, Issue 4, March 1967, Pages 853–854, https://doi.org/10.2307/1894058 P…
Railroads and Regulation, 1877-1916
The World of Andrew Carnegie: 1865-1901
The Agrarian Image of the Large Corporation, 1879–1920: A Study in Social Accommodation
For many years a relatively small number dominated the private sector of the American of the American economy. Most of the nation's goods and a substantial part of its services are produced and distributed by very large corporations. Of late, most Americans seem unconcerned about this fact. They regard big business with equanimity, even approval, and as Richard Hofstadter points out, antitrust has become “one of the faded passions of American ref…
Competition and Cooperation: The Emergence of a National Trade Association
A Behavioral Approach to Historical Analysis
The Development of Large-Scale Economic Organizations in Modern America
Scholars interested in modern industrial economies have for years devoted substantial attention to the growth and performance of large-scale organizations. Many of their studies have been the intellectual heirs of Max Weber's brilliant analysis of bureaucracy, for it is the bureaucratic structure of authority which most often characterizes such organizations in the modern period. Economists, historians, and sociologists are all in debt to Weber f…
The Emerging Organizational Synthesis In Modern American History
Almost unnoticed in the midst of revisionist attacks on progressive history and the rise of the New Left, an organizational synthesis has been emerging which offers much to the student of modern America. Professor Galambos presents a historiographical survey of this synthesis and concludes that its chief strength is a mode of analysis blending the traditional tools of historical thought with ideas from the behavioral sciences
The Emergence of Multinational Enterprise: American Business Abroad from the Colonial Era to 1914
An Anniversary Message
The 1970 meeting of the Economic History Association in Dallas, Texas, marked die organization's thirtieth anniversary. Occasions such as this call for certain ritualistic responses—as every husband knows—and the Program Committee was more than willing to satisfy the demands of tradition. Thus our anniversary program included a review of past accomplishments in the various branches of economic history. To balance this review, however, we introduc…
AFL's Concept of Big Business: A Quantitative Study of Attitudes toward the Large Corporation, 1894-1931
Journal Article AFL's Concept of Big Business: A Quantitative Study of Attitudes toward the Large Corporation, 1894–1931 Get access Louis Galambos Louis Galambos professor of history Rutgers University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 57, Issue 4, March 1971, Pages 847–863, https://doi.org/10.2307/1917786 Published: 01 March 1971
New Horizons, 1927-1950
Gross National Product or Product of National Grossness
The Public Image of Big Business in America, 1880-1940: A Quantitative Study in Social Change
The Public Image of Big Business in America, 1880-1940: A Quantitative Study in Social Change
The Public Image of Big Business in America, 1880-1940: A Quantitative Study in Social Change
Journal Article The Public Image of Big Business in America, 1880–1940: A Quantitative Study in Social Change. By Louis Galambos and Barbara Barrow Spence. (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1975. Charts, tables, appendix, notes, and index. $15.00.) Get access J. Morgan Kousser J. Morgan Kousser California Institute of Technology Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume …
The Public Image of Big Business in America, 1880-1940. A Quantitative Study in Social Change
The Public Image of Big Business in America, 1880-1940: A Quantitative Study in Social Change
The Public Image of Big Business in America, 1880-1940: A Quantitative Study in Social Change
Why They Liked Ike
The Papers of Dwight David Eisenhower. Volume VI: Occupation, 1945: Volumes VII, VIII, IX: The Chief of Staff
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