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Enterprise and Society Advance Access originally published online on June 13, 2008
Enterprise and Society 2008 9(3):426-429; doi:10.1093/es/khn052
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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.

Beyond Chandler?

Philip Scranton

PHILIP SCRANTON is Board of Governor's Professor, History of Industry and Technology, at Rutgers University, Director of Hagley's Center for the History of Business, Technology and Society, and editor-in-chief of this journal

Contact information: scranton@camden.rutgers.edu.

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Unlike several of my colleagues whose retrospective essays are included in this special section, I did not have a personal relationship with Alfred DuPont Chandler, though during the 1980s he did invite me to present a discussion of my first book Proprietary Capitalism at his Harvard business history seminar. I also met Dr. Chandler frequently at Business History Conference meetings, where I found him ever-gracious, indifferent to criticism, and supportive of diverse projects whether allied with or tangential to his own. Thus here I offer some reflections on our discipline and its current situation, taking Chandler's publications as a point of departure.

From my perspective, Alfred Chandler's life work was a classic modernist project, along at least two dimensions. Empirically, Chandler documented and analyzed what he understood as . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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