Drea Knufken
21. Strategy and Structure: Chapters in the History of the Industrial Enterprise
by Alfred D. Chandler
1962
A business historian, Chandler was one of the first scholars to systematically examine the corporate structure of large companies. Considered a theoretical masterpiece, this book—namely, its now-debated conclusion that strategy should drive structure—played a leading role in the profitable decentralization of leading corporations in the 1960s and 1970s.
