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The Visible Hand : The Managerial Revolution in American Business
by Chandler, Alfred D., Jr
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- Hardcover
- Condition
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- ISBN 10
- 0674940512
- ISBN 13
- 9780674940512
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Harvard University Press, 1977. Hardcover. Acceptable. Disclaimer:A readable copy. All pages are intact, and the cover is intact. Pages can include considerable notes-in pen or highlighter-but the notes cannot obscure the text. At ThriftBooks, our motto is: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.
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The Visible Hand: The Managerial Revolution in American Business is a 1977 business book by Alfred Chandler. The title is a play on Adam Smith's famous notion of the invisible hand. Chandler described the emergence the managerial layer of the firms, who could extend its domain of action by sheer desire to exploit the new found efficiency to domains of action for which it had not be designed for nor instructed to.
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- Title
- The Visible Hand : The Managerial Revolution in American Business
- Author
- Chandler, Alfred D., Jr
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Acceptable
- Quantity Available
- 1
- ISBN 10
- 0674940512
- ISBN 13
- 9780674940512
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press
- Place of Publication
- Cambridge
- Date Published
- 1977
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