Chandler on High Technology Industries from the 1880s to the 1990s
A Comment
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8246732 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Richard Sylla (New York University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2006 |
| Volume | 1 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Publication date | 2006-01-07 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Capitalism and Society (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1932-0213 • E-ISSN: 2194-6140 |
| Publisher | Walter de Gruyter GmbH (PUBLISHER • DE) |
| DOI | 10.2202/1932-0213.1008 |
| OpenAlex | W2020617798 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
Al’s essay here on more than a century’s history of high technology industries and firms is vintage Chandler. My comments on it will focus on three points: Chandler’s global perspective, which is one that too few U.S. business historians have; Chandler’s defense of the large corporation as a fount of continuing innovation in high tech industries against the allegations of others that such Chandlerian corporations are yesterday’s news and no longer very relevant; and lastly what I see as a lacuna that seems still to exist in Chandler’s interpretations, namely a tendency to ignore or minimize the importance of finance.This paper is a comment on How High Technology Industries Transformed Work and Life Worldwide from the 1880s to the 1990s by Alfred D. Chandler, Jr. which can be found at: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2205806.Chandler's response to this comment can be found at: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2205854
Art · Corporation · Economics · High tech · Management · Perspective (graphical · Political science · Vintage · Yesterday · Historical Economic and Social Studies · History · Law
| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 0,06 |
| Citation span | 2008 - 2008 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |