Driel, Hugo van; Goey, Ferry de; Gerwen, Jacques van - In: Business History 49 (2007) 4, pp. 439-463
This article tests Alfred Chandler's thesis that the managerial revolution, that is, the building of managerial hierarchies, clustered in a selected set of industries where the need for co-ordination was particularly high. These fast-growing, capital-intensive, and high-volume producing...