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Enterprise and Society 2008 9(3):430-432; doi:10.1093/es/khn048
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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.

The Future of Alfred Chandler

Kenneth J. Lipartito

KENNETH J. LIPARTITO is a professor of history at Florida International University and the former editor of Enterprise & Society: The International Journal of Business History. A specialist on technology, business, and culture, his latest book is A History of the Kennedy Space Center (University Press of Florida, 2007). He is the author or editor of four other books, including Constructing Corporate America: History, Politics, Culture (Oxford University Press, 2004), and The Bell System and Regional Business: The Telephone in the South, 1877–1920 (Johns Hopkins University Press, 1989). His articles have appeared in the American Historical Review, the Journal of Economic History, Technology and Culture, Industrial and Corporate Change and the Business History Review. He is a recipient of the Harold F. Williamson Prize from the Business History Conference and the Abbott Payson Usher Prize from the Society for the History of Technology

Contact Information: Department of History, Florida International University, Miami, FL, 33186. Tel: 305-348-1860. E-mail: lipark@fiu.edu.

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One could make a career of throwing darts at the work of Alfred Chandler. I don't mean just criticizing him. You could take the pages of Chandler's books, paste them up on a wall, and start throwing. Almost everywhere a point struck would be a little gem of business history to draw your interest.

I didn't need a dartboard, but in 1980 when I first read The Visible Hand I came across a reference to futures trading that fascinated me. It was something I knew little about, yet there it was, its history deftly laid out in a few pages. Classic Chandler: futures trading emerged out of a combination of . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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