Alfred Chandler, Founder of Strategy: Lost Tradition and Renewed Inspiration
Year: 2008
Type: article
Abstract: 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.
Source: The Business History Review
Author: Richard Whittington
Institutions: University of Oxford, New College
Language: English
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W2007335011