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The Corporation and the Twentieth Century - The History of American Business Enterprise (Hardcover): Richard N. Langlois The Corporation and the Twentieth Century - The History of American Business Enterprise (Hardcover)
Richard N. Langlois
R1,050 R961 Discovery Miles 9 610 Save R89 (8%) In Stock

A definitive reframing of the economic, institutional, and intellectual history of the managerial era The twentieth century was the managerial century in the United States. An organizational transformation, from entrepreneurial to managerial capitalism, brought forth what became a dominant narrative: that administrative coordination by trained professional managers is essential to the efficient running of organizations both public and private. And yet if managerialism was the apotheosis of administrative efficiency, why did both its practice and the accompanying narrative lie in ruins by the end of the century? In The Corporation and the Twentieth Century, Richard Langlois offers an alternative version: a comprehensive and nuanced reframing and reassessment of the economic, institutional, and intellectual history of the managerial era. Langlois argues that managerialism rose to prominence not because of its inherent superiority but because of its contingent value in a young and rapidly developing American economy. The structures of managerialism solidified their dominance only because the century’s great catastrophes of war, depression, and war again superseded markets, scrambled relative prices, and weakened market-supporting institutions. By the end of the twentieth century, Langlois writes, these market-supporting institutions had reemerged to shift advantage toward entrepreneurial and market-driven modes of organization. This magisterial new account of the rise and fall of managerialism holds significant implications for contemporary debates about industrial and antitrust policies and the role of the corporation in the twenty-first century.

Alternative Theories of the Firm (Hardcover): Richard N. Langlois, Fu-Lai T. Yu, Paul L. Robertson Alternative Theories of the Firm (Hardcover)
Richard N. Langlois, Fu-Lai T. Yu, Paul L. Robertson
R26,000 Discovery Miles 260 000 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Alternative Theories of the Firm provides a range of fundamental readings embracing the economics of firm behaviour from a non-neoclassical perspective. The collection covers several basic topics including: the importance of transaction costs and agency theory for the analysis of firm behaviour; capabilities and resource-based theories of the firm; the economics of firm strategy; behavioural theories; Austrian theories; evolutionary theories; and the historical development of firms. The readings include selections from traditional masters as well as writings by more recent authors. This collection will be of great value both to scholars who want a summary of developments in the field and to students of industrial economics and corporate strategy.

Dynamics of Industrial Capitalism - Schumpeter, Chandler, and the New Economy (Hardcover): Richard N. Langlois Dynamics of Industrial Capitalism - Schumpeter, Chandler, and the New Economy (Hardcover)
Richard N. Langlois
R4,295 Discovery Miles 42 950 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Co-winner of the 2006 Schumpeter Prize of the International Joseph A. Schumpeter Society.

This book explains the shift of the organizational landscape away from vertically integrated firms and towards more specialized entities connected by markets and networks. In doing so, it places in a larger theoretical framework the work of Joseph Schumpeter and Alfred Chandler, two of the twentieth century's most important analysts of the modern corporation.

Weaving together business history, economic theory and the history of ideas, Langlois - who won the Newcomen Award in 1992 - sorts through the competing understanding of the rise and (relative) eclipse of the multi-unit enterprise. Rather than rejecting the accounts of Schumpeter and Chandler, he offers his own nuanced and historically grounded account of the rise and success of the corporation and its subsequent unbundling.

Topical and timely, Dynamics of Industrial Capitalism is a useful resource for postgraduates and academics interested in the economics of organization, business history, economic sociology, and the history of economic thought, as well as to the general reader interested in the place of the corporation in the new economy.

Firms, Markets and Economic Change - A dynamic Theory of Business Institutions (Hardcover, New): Richard N. Langlois, Paul L.... Firms, Markets and Economic Change - A dynamic Theory of Business Institutions (Hardcover, New)
Richard N. Langlois, Paul L. Robertson
R5,004 Discovery Miles 50 040 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Managing to innovate successfully is one of the key challenges facing modern managers, firms, and governments. The rise to prominence of Japanese "keiretsu" in recent years has brought into question the effectiveness of traditional Western forms of corporate organization. Will the future favour networks of small innovative firms as in California's Silicon Valley, or will giant integrated firms dominate? Should governments play a role in directing the innovation process or should decisions be left to private enterprise?;This work draws on industrial economics, business strategy, and economic history to illuminate these topics. The authors first develop an evolutionary model to show when innovation is best undertaken within firms and when markets are the most efficient way of dealing with change. This is then illustrated by detailed discussion of the effect of innovation on the organization of the American automobile industry in the early years of the 20th century. The chapters which follow outline the effect of innovation on the organization in the early years of the 20th century.

Firms, Markets and Economic Change - A dynamic Theory of Business Institutions (Paperback, New): Richard N. Langlois, Paul L.... Firms, Markets and Economic Change - A dynamic Theory of Business Institutions (Paperback, New)
Richard N. Langlois, Paul L. Robertson
R1,742 Discovery Miles 17 420 Ships in 12 - 17 working days


Traditonal western forms of corporate organization have been called into question by the success of Japanese keiretsu. Firms, Markets and Economic Change draws on industrial economics, business strategy, and economic history to develop an evolutionary model to show when innovation is best undertaken. The authors argue that innovation is a complex process that defies neat categorization and government policy should be to facilitate change rather than to direct it.

Dynamics of Industrial Capitalism - Schumpeter, Chandler, and the New Economy (Paperback): Richard N. Langlois Dynamics of Industrial Capitalism - Schumpeter, Chandler, and the New Economy (Paperback)
Richard N. Langlois
R1,307 Discovery Miles 13 070 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Co-winner of the 2006 Schumpeter Prize of the International Joseph A. Schumpeter Society. This book explains the shift of the organizational landscape away from vertically integrated firms and towards more specialized entities connected by markets and networks. In doing so, it places in a larger theoretical framework the work of Joseph Schumpeter and Alfred Chandler, two of the twentieth century's most important analysts of the modern corporation. Weaving together business history, economic theory and the history of ideas, Langlois - who won the Newcomen Award in 1992 - sorts through the competing understanding of the rise and (relative) eclipse of the multi-unit enterprise. Rather than rejecting the accounts of Schumpeter and Chandler, he offers his own nuanced and historically grounded account of the rise and success of the corporation and its subsequent unbundling. Topical and timely, Dynamics of Industrial Capitalism is a useful resource for postgraduates and academics interested in the economics of organization, business history, economic sociology, and the history of economic thought, as well as to the general reader interested in the place of the corporation in the new economy.

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