TY  - BOOK
AU  - Chandler,Alfred D.
TI  - The visible hand: the managerial revolution in American business 
SN  - 0674940512
AV  - HF5343 C455 1977
U1  - 658.4/00973 
PY  - 1977///
CY  - Cambridge, Mass.
PB  - Belknap Press
KW  - Industrial management
KW  - United States
KW  - History
KW  - Industrial organization
KW  - Industries
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index
N2  - 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
ER  -