Table of Contents

1: Change, Context, and the Corporation
2: Chandler and Context
3: Scale, Scope, and Structure
4: Corporate Careers and Control
5: Changing Strategies
6: Changing Structures
7: Strategy, Structure, and Politics
8: Concluding for the Corporation
Appendix I: Strategic and Structural Classification of French, German, and United Kingdom Firms
Appendix II: Methodology

About the Author

Richard Whittington is University Reader in Strategy at the Saïd Business School and Fellow of New College, University of Oxford. He was formerly Lecturer in Organizational Analysis at Imperial College and Reader in Marketing and Strategic Management at the University of Warwick. He is author of Corporate Strategies in Recession and Recovery (Unwin Hyman) and What is Strategy -- and Does it Matter? (Routledge), as well as articles in a
variety of journals. He is Associate Editor of the British Journal of Management and is on the editorial boards of Long Range Planning and Organization Studies.; Michael Mayer is a Lecturer in Strategic and International
Management at the University of Glasgow. He has published articles in Organization Studies, the European Management Journal, and Industrial and Corporate Change.

Reviews

Almost 40 yeares after the publication of the seminal Strategy and Structure; Chapters in the History of the Industrial Enterprise, by Alfred D. Chandler, Jr., its rightful European heir has finally arrived. Industrial Relations Journal, 32,5, 2001 This book asks big questions, is written in a vivid and engaging style, provides an unusual historical perspective and is certain to provoke debate about challenges of social science and the future of the large corporations that dominate research in our field. Administrative Science Quarterly (ASQ)