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Enterprise and Society Advance Access originally published online on October 24, 2006
Enterprise and Society 2006 7(4):832-834; doi:10.1093/es/khl064
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© The Author 2006. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the Business History Conference. All rights reserved. For permissions, please e-mail: journals.permissions@oxfordjournals.org.

Harold James. Family Capitalism: Wendels, Haniels, Falcks, and the Continental European Model. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2006. xii + 434 pp. ISBN 0-674-02181-9, $39.95 (paper).

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In recent years, revising or amending Alfred D. Chandler’s thesis on the rise of large-scale business enterprises has become an industry unto itself. A decade ago, the most significant challenges to Chandler’s visible hand appeared to come from those who espoused both the contemporary and the historical virtues of flexible specialization. More recently, it appears that advocates of the family firm have begun to stake their claim to a part of Chandler’s sizable inheritance. However, just as the introduction of flexibility into the historical literature reflected a particular . . . [Full Text of this Article]

James A. Jaffe

University of Wisconsin-Whitewater


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