This essay falls into three parts. The first reviews the Second Industrial Revolution based on the commercializing of electrical and steam power and lasted from the 1880s through the 1920s. The leaders here were concentrated along the Rhine Valley from Basel in Switzerland to the Low Countries....

[fre] Cet article, dû au maître de l'histoire de l'entreprise aux Etats-Unis, conteste vigoureusement la représentation usuelle selon laquelle la croissance des firmes se ferait par division et spécialisation. Pour l'auteur, cette représentation est une extrapolation mal fondée des...

In my book Scale and Scope (1990), I focused on the history of the modern industrial firm from the 1880s, when such firms first appeared, through World War II. I did so by comparing the fortunes of more than 600 enterprises—the 200 largest industrial firms at three points in time (World War I,...

This book shows how the seventy largest corporations in America have dealt with a single economic problem: the effective administration of an expanding business. The author summarizes the history of the expansion of the nation's largest industries during the past hundred years and then examines...