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National Organizing Principles of Work and the Erstwhile Dominance of the American Multinational Corporation

In: Organization and Strategy in the Evolution of the Enterprise

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  • Bruce Kogut

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Did American development of the largest corporations in the world drive its dominance of world markets in the first three-quarters of this century? The evolution of the large diversified firm and the internationalization of the firm across national borders clearly rank as two of the most important economic developments in the twentieth century. To many, these two developments are linked. In the influential and seminal works of Chandler, the modern corporation arose to exploit fully the new technologies of transport and communication. In his most recent study Scale and Scope: The Dynamics of Industrial Capitalism (1990), Chandler develops the thesis that entrepreneurs gave way to the professional management of firms which succeeded in building, as first movers, three interrelated sets of investments: production, distribution, and management to achieve advantages of scale, scope, or both.

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  • Bruce Kogut, 1996. "National Organizing Principles of Work and the Erstwhile Dominance of the American Multinational Corporation," Palgrave Macmillan Books, in: Giovanni Dosi & Franco Malerba (ed.), Organization and Strategy in the Evolution of the Enterprise, chapter 10, pages 246-287, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-1-349-13389-5_11
    DOI: 10.1007/978-1-349-13389-5_11
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