Measuring chandler's impact on european business studies since the 1960s

Business History Review

Volumn 82, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 279-292

  Iversen, Martin Jes ^a  

^a Department of International Economics and Management

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EID: 50849134597     PISSN: 00076805     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/s0007680500062772     Document Type: Article

References (52)

1. Harm G. Schröter, ed., The European Enterprise: Historical Investigation into a Future Species (Heidelberg, 2008);
2. Camilla Brautaset and Youssef Cassis, "The Performance of European Business in the Twentieth Century: A Pilot Study," Business and Economic History On-Line (vol. 1, 2003).
3. Encyclopaedia Britannica (Chicago, Ill., 2007).
4. Based on Science Citation Index Expanded (SCI-EXPANDED): 1945-present; Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI): 1956-present; Arts & Humanities Citation Index (A&HCI): 1975-present. From 1957 to 2007, there was a total of 3,869 citations to Chandler's works in the ISI Web of Knowledge database (accessed on 20 Nov. 2007). One citation may correspond to one or more subject-area categories. Therefore in order to have an overview of the distribution of citations by subject area, I have made a summation of the record count, from 1957 to 2007, of Chandler citations per subject area category. All 92 subject area categories add up to 6,392. The percentage of each subject category is then computed from this total. The Article Citation Count was produced by research assistant Leopoldo Alonso, CBS, and it is based on Science Citation Index Expanded (SCI-EXPANDED): 1945-present; Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI): 1956-present; Arts & Humanities Citation Index (A&HCI): 1975-present.
5. Alfred D. Chandler Jr., Strategy and Structure: Chapters in the History of the Industrial Enterprise (Cambridge, Mass., 1962).
6. Alfred D. Chandler Jr., "The Beginnings of 'Big Business' in American Industry," Business History Review 33 (Spring 1959): 1-31;
7. Chandler, Strategy and Structure; and Thomas K. McCraw, ed., The Essential Alfred Chandler: Essays toward a Historical Theory of Big Business (Boston, Mass., 1988), 2.
8. Barry E. Supple, "American Business History: A Survey," Business History 1 (June 1959): 63-76.
9. Ibid., 75.
10. W. Ashworth, "Review of Alfred D. Chandler Jr.'s Strategy and Structure: Chapters in the History of the Industrial Enterprise," Business History 7, no. 2 (July 1965): 122.
11. Note that the Arts & Humanities Citation Index (A&HCI) only covers the period after 1975; there might thus have been more American and European Chandler citations within these fields before 1975.
12. Derek Channon, The Strategy and Structure of British Enterprise (London, 1973);
13. Gareth Dyas and Heinz Thanheiser, The Emerging European Enterprise (London, 1976);
14. Robert J. Pavan, "Strategy and Structure: The Italian Experience," Journal of Economics and Business 28, no. 3 (1976): 254-60;
15. Bruce R. Scott, "The Industrial State: Old Myths and New Realities," Harvard Business Review (Mar.-Apr. 1973): 135-48;
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17. and Leonard Wrigley, Divisional Autonomy and Diversification (Cambridge, Mass., 1970).
18. Richard Whittington and Michael Mayer, The European Corporation: Strategy, Structure and Social Science (Oxford, 2000).
19. The British researcher Richard Whittington, the German researcher Michael Mayer, the Italian researcher Andrea Colli, and the Swiss researcher Margrit Müller have all used database results from the Harvard program in their analyses.
20. For instance in the early 1950s the Danish foreign ministry published a number of industry specific reports on study trips to the U.S. aimed at productivity improvements.
21. Jean-Jacques Servan-Schreiber, The American Challenge (London, 1968).
22. Figures are in 1990 Geary-Khamis dollars. See the Conference Board and the Gronigen Growth and Development Centre, Total Economy Database (Utrecht, 2008).
23. Alfred D. Chandler Jr., "The Opportunities for Business History at the Beginning of the Twenty-First-Century," in Business History around the World, ed. Franco Amatori and Geoffrey Jones (Cambridge, U.K., 2003), 394-406.
24. Kristof Glamann, Proceedings of the Twelfth International Economic History Conference (Copenhagen, 1974).
25. Alfred D. Chandler Jr. and Herman Daems, "Investment Strategy in Europe, United States, and Japan," in Five Themes: Sixth International Congress on Economic History (Copenhagen, 1974).
26. The article introduces the three types of enterprises identified in The Visible Hand: The private enterprise, the entrepreneurial enterprise, and the managerial enterprise. Managerial capitalism refers to a system dominated by enterprises with separation of management from ownership. Alfred D. Chandler Jr., The Visible Hand: The Managerial Revolution in American Business (Cambridge, Mass., 1977).
27. Alfred D. Chandler, Jr., Scale and Scope: The Dynamics of Industrial Capitalism (Cambridge, Mass., 1990);
28. Albert Carreras, Xavier Tafunell, and Eugenio Torres, "Business History in Spain"; Franco Amatori and Giorgio Bigatti, "Business History in Italy"; and Youssef Cassis, "Business History in France"; all in Amatori and Jones, eds., Business History around the World.
29. Leslie Hannah, The Rise of the Corporate Economy (London, 1976), and Hannah, ed., Management Strategy and Business Development (London, 1976).
30. Anthony Slaven, "Review of Leslie Hannah, The Rise of the Corporate Economy and Management Strategy and Business Development," Business History 21, no. 1 (1979): 120.
31. Chandler, The Visible Hand; for a debate on markets vs. hierarchies in economic transactions see Charles Perrow, "Markets, Hierarchies, and Hegemony" [1981], reprinted in The Essential Alfred Chandler, ed. McCraw, 432-64.
32. Håkan Lindgren, "Scandinavian Business History at the End of the 1990s: Its Prior Development, Present Situation, and Future," in Amatori and Jones, eds., Business History around the World, 146-69.
33. Leslie Hannah, "Review of Alfred D. Chandler Jr., The Visible Hand: The Managerial Revolution in American Business," Business History 22, no. 2 (1980): 246.
34. Chandler, The Visible Hand; Chandler, Scale and Scope; and Chandler, "The Emergence of Managerial Capitalism," Business History Review 58 (Winter 1984): 473-503.
35. Richard Whitley, European Business Systems: Firms and Markets in Their National Contexts (London, 1992).
36. Cassis, "Business History in France," 193; Carreras, Tafunell, and Torres, "Business History in Spain," 244; Harm G. Schröter, "Business History in German-Speaking States at the End of the Century: Achievements and Gaps," in Business History around the World, ed. Amatori and Jones, 181.
37. Jürgen Kocka, "Germany: Cooperation and Competition," Business History Review 64 (Winter 1990): 711-15.
38. Jeffrey R. Fear, Organizing Control: August Thyssen and the Construction of German Corporate Management (Cambridge, Mass., 2005).
39. For an overview of the debate, see Geoffrey Jones, "Global Perspectives and British Paradoxes," Business History Review 71 (1997): 291-98;
40. Steven Toms and Mike Wright, "Corporate Governance, Strategy and Structure in British Business History, 1950-2000," Business History 45, no. 3 (2002): 91-124.
41. Steven Toms and John F. Wilson, "Scale, Scope, and Accountability: Towards a New Paradigm of British Business History," Business History 45, no. 4 (2003): 1-23.
42. Whittington and Mayer, The European Corporation.
43. Ibid., 45.
44. Talcott Parsons, "Evolutionary Universals in Society," American Sociological Review 29, no. 3 (1964): 339-57.
45. Whittington and Mayer, The European Corporation, 23-24.
46. Ibid., 46.
47. There was, for instance, Franco Amatori and Youssef Cassis's ambitious study, "The Performance of European Business in the Twentieth Century," Harm G. Schröter's project, "The European Corporation," and Andrea Colli, Martin Jes Iversen, and John Wilson's "Corporate Responses to European Integration," Schröter, ed., The European Enterprise; Brautaset and Cassis, "The Performance of European Business in the Twentieth Century"; John F. Wilson et al., "Mapping Corporate Europe: Business Responses to Institutional Change, 1957-2007," European Journal of International Management 1 (July 2007): 225-38.
48. Chandler, Scale and Scope, 10.
49. Ibid., 3.
50. The concept of inductive nature refers to the understanding known from business research methodologies. See for instance Alan Bryman and Emma Bell, Business Research Methodology: The Nature of Qualitative Research (Oxford, 2003).
51. Geoffrey Jones, "In Memoriam: Alfred D. Chandler, 1918-2007," Business History Review 81 (Summer 2007): 326-27.
52. Naomi R. Lamoreaux, Daniel M. G. Raff, and Peter Temin, "Beyond Markets and Hierarchies: Toward a New Synthesis of American Business History," American Historical Review 106 (Apr. 2003): 404-33.