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Dépasser Chandler ?

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Even not very close to Alfred DuPont Chandler, P. Scranton offer some reflections on our discipline and its current situation, taking Chandler?s publications as a point of departure. Chandler?s work appears to be a ?Business History Classic?. Empirically, Chandler documented and analyzed what he understood as the means to ?making the modern?, be it manager, enterprise or economy. Through his accounts of America?s largest corporations and their managerial practices, Chandler provided an origin story for solid modernity in which rational and rationalizing enterprises are the natural and essential foundations for progress, for a society of reliable structures, durable careers, and rising expectations. Yet as solid modernity has vaporized, these concepts and their history become ever less helpful in linking past and present in ways that make sense of both. How is still is possible to use Chandler?s work through a constructive critic?

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  • Philip Scranton, 2008. "Dépasser Chandler ?," Revue française de gestion, Lavoisier, vol. 0(8), pages 53-57.
    • Handle: RePEc:cai:rfglav:rfg_188_0053
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