Large industrial enterprises are an important phenomena in advanced Western economies. They control large percentages of total industrial assets, employ millions of workers and together with their dependent satellite firms produce their own spatial patterns of employment, location of production capacity and flow of material and information, and thus dominate the economic base of whole towns. This study, first published in 1980, surveys a massive amount of work on large industrial firms, and features an in-depth study of the growth of large industrial enterprises in the UK brewing industry from 1951-76. This illustrates many of the themes discussed in the book.

Investigates the changing strategy and structure of the large industrial enterprise in the United States

This book shows how the seventy largest corporations in America have dealt with a single economic problem: the effective administration of an expanding business. The author summarizes the history of the expansion of the nation's largest industries during the past hundred years and then examines in depth the modern decentralized corporate structure as it was developed independently by four companies—du Pont, General Motors, Standard Oil (New Jersey), and Sears, Roebuck. This 1990 reprint includes a new introduction by the author.

2011 Updated Reprint. Updated Annually. Russia 1000 Largest Industrial Companies Directory

'Powerfully argued and richly detailed...this is a history of the rise of modern business enterprise, of management, and of managerial capitalism that is written from the inside. I believe only Chandler could have done it.'

National champions are firms promoted by governments to defend the national interest in the international market. This text looks at how European national champions have fared under the pressure of European integration and in an increasingly competitive wo