Understanding industrial and corporate change / by Oxford Scholarship Online

Table of Contents: “…THE SLOW PACE OF RAPID TECHNOLOGICAL CHANGE: GRADUALISM AND PUNCTUATION IN TECHNOLOGICAL CHANGETECHNOLOGIES, PRODUCTS AND ORGANIZATION IN THE INNOVATING FIRM: WHAT ADAM SMITH TELLS US AND JOSEPH SCHUMPETER DOESN'T; ECONOMIC EXPERIMENTS; HEROES, HERDS AND HYSTERESIS IN TECHNOLOGICAL HISTORY: THOMAS EDISON AND 'THE BATTLE OF THE SYSTEMS' RECONSIDERED; PATENTS AND WELFARE IN AN EVOLUTIONARY MODEL; CORPORATE STRATEGY, STRUCTURE AND CONTROL METHODS IN THE UNITED STATES DURING THE 20TH CENTURY; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y.…”
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Management Innovation : Essays in the Spirit of Alfred D. Chandler, Jr. / by Oxford Scholarship Online

Table of Contents: “…Finance capital in Chandlerian capitalism; 12. The hand of corporate management in capital allocations: patterns of investment in multi- and single-business firms; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; X; Y; Z.…”
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