Chandler, Alfred D.  1918-2007. <br/><br/>
The visible hand :  the managerial revolution in American business / 
Alfred D. Chandler, Jr. 
 - Cambridge, Mass. :  Belknap Press,  1977. 
 - xvi, 608 p. ;  24 cm. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references and index. 
<br/><br/> The role of large-scale business enterprise-big business and its managers- during the formative years of modern capitalism (from the 1850s until the 1920s) is delineated for the first time in this pathmarking book. Alfred D. Chandler, Jr. the distinguished historian of business, sets forth the reasons for the dominance of big business in American transportation, communication and the central sectors of production and distribution 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>0674940512 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>77001529  
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Industrial management--History.--United States<br/>Industrial organization--History.--United States<br/>Industries--United States.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>HF5343  / C455 1977 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>658.4/00973