Alfred Chandler, Founder of Strategy: Lost Tradition and Renewed Inspiration

Richard Whittington

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Richard Rumelt, Dan Schendel, and David Teece are clear: “The foundation of strategic management as a field may very well be traced to the 1962 publication of Chandler'sStrategy and Structure.”For these three doyens of strategy, Alfred Chandler was a fundamental influence on the shape of the strategic-management discipline that emerged in the 1960s and 1970s. Yet, unlike the two other pioneers they identify, Kenneth Andrews and Igor Ansoff, Chandler stood firmly outside the discipline, working as a business historian, not as a strategist. Remarkably, it is Chandler's work that resonates most strongly in the discipline today and, I shall argue, still offers the most powerful inspiration for scholarly work in the future.

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1997Dynamic capabilities and strategic management 1995The Knowledge-Creating Company 1998The Knowledge-Creating Company 1976Markets and Hierarchies: Analysis and Antitrust Implications.1985Of strategies, deliberate and emergent 1978Alfred D. Chandler, Jr. The Visible Hand: The Managerial Revolution in American Business. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press. 1977. Pp. xvi, 608. $18.50 1987The Concept of Corporate Strategy 1963Strategy and Structure: Chapters in the History of Industrial Enterprise.

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