Once the story of modern America seemed relatively simple. On one side stood a business
elite defending a market system to which it owed its power and position. On the other stood …

Contrasting with the resentment of other power structures, especially corporate business,
that democratic governments display is the obvious need of the powerful and the productive …

IN THIS ESSAY, we offer a new synthesis of American business history that aims to replace,
but also subsume, the dominant Chandlerian framework. 1 Writing in the mid-1970s, Alfred …

American society today is shaped not nearly as much by vast open spaces as it is by vast,
bureaucratic organizations. Over half the working population toils away at enterprises with …

This article investigates the history of the Progressive Era effort to develop new techniques
and technologies of control over American business and corporations in the late nineteenth …

Almost unnoticed in the midst of revisionist attacks on progressive history and the rise of the
New Left, an organizational synthesis has been emerging which offers much to the student …

In this suggestive essay, Professor Galambos surveys the large number of books and
articles, published since 1970, that together point toward a new “organizational synthesis” in …

Why and how has the Business Corporation come to exert such a powerful influence on
American Society? The essays here take up this question, offering a fresh perspective on the …

In this article, Professor Chandler compares and contrasts the emergence of managerial
capitalism in the United States, Great Britain, Germany, and Japan. Though he observes that …

At the turn of the twentieth century American politics underwent a profound change, as both
regulatory minimalism and statist command were rejected in favor of positive government …