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Enterprise and Society 2008 9(3):405-410; doi:10.1093/es/khn058
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© The Author 2008. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the Business History Conference. All rights reserved. For permissions, please e-mail: journals.permissions@oxfordjournals.org.

Alfred DuPont Chandler, Jr., 1918–2007: An Introduction

Mark H. Rose

MARK H. ROSE is professor of history at Florida Atlantic University and an associate editor of Enterprise & Society and (with Richard R. John and Pamela W. Laird) a co-editor of "American Business, Politics, and Society," a book series published by the University of Pennsylvania Press. During 2008–2009, Rose serves as president of the Business History Conference. As much as I thought of myself as a social and then as a political historian, and hence as unChandlerian, in truth I have never found it possible to abandon Chandler's thesis

Contact information: Department of History, Florida Atlantic University, 777 Glades Road, Boca Raton FL 33431. E-mail: mrose@fau.edu.

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Alfred DuPont Chandler, Jr. was born in 1918. On May 9, 2007, Professor Chandler died at Youville Hospital in Cambridge, Massachusetts. In the course of a remarkably productive career, Chandler's ideas about corporate growth and the central role of managers rather than markets in fostering that growth helped shape the scholarship of generations of sociologists, political scientists, and business historians. In 1952, Harvard University awarded the PhD to Chandler. In 1956, he published Henry Varnum Poor, and in 1962, he published Strategy and Structure, one among several of his widely recognized and regularly cited books. In 2005, at age 87, Chandler published, Shaping the Industrial Century, his final book. In between those volumes, Chandler's major books included The Visible Hand (1977), which in 1978 earned the Bancroft and Pulitzer Prizes, and Scale and Scope, published in 1990. Business executives around the world read Chandler, unlike most . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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