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Response to the Contributors to the Review Colloquium on Scale and Scope

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 December 2011

Alfred D. Chandler Jr
Alfred D. Chandler Jr
Affiliation:
Alfred D. Chandler, Jr., is Straus Professor of Business History, emeritus, at theHarvard Business School.
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Extract

I am extremely grateful for the valuable and challenging comments of the contributors to this review colloquium on Scale and Scope. Their remarks have allowed me to clarify and to define more sharply the basic concepts, focus, and aims of the book. In discussing each reviewer's comments, I attempt whenever possible to place them in the larger context of my views on the development of industrial capitalism.

Type
Review Colloquium
Information
Business History Review , Volume 64 , Issue 4 , Winter 1990 , pp. 736 - 758
Copyright
Copyright © The President and Fellows of Harvard College 1990

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