http://organizationsandmarkets.com/2006/07/25/177/ Economics of organizations, strategy, entrepreneurship, innovation, and more Sun, 12 Feb 2012 08:11:55 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ http://organizationsandmarkets.com/2006/07/25/177/#comment-1512 Tue, 15 Aug 2006 12:25:14 +0000 https://organizationsandmarkets.wordpress.com/2006/07/25/177/#comment-1512 [...] In a recent blog posting, Langlois pointed to his new book The Dynamics of Industrial Capitalism: Schumpeter, Chandler, and the New Economy that will be coming out shortly – for a limited time, the full text of the book is available online here.  In this book, especially in Chapters 4 and 5, Langlois develops the theme of the historical transition from the Invisible Hand to the Visible Hand and now to the Vanishing Hand. More concretely, he sets out to try to explain why the large integrated firm described by Alfred Chandler emerged in the late nineteenth century but, more importantly, why the large integrated firm began to unravel in the late twentieth century. As he puts it, “vertical disintegration and specialization is perhaps the most significant organizational development of the 1990s. My goal is to explain this development . . . ” [...]

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]]> http://organizationsandmarkets.com/2006/07/25/177/#comment-1401 Fri, 11 Aug 2006 20:02:14 +0000 https://organizationsandmarkets.wordpress.com/2006/07/25/177/#comment-1401 I just finished The Dynamics of Industrial Capitalism and really enjoyed it. I posted a blog entry on it at
http://edgeperspectives.typepad.com/edge_perspectives/2006/08/langlois_and_th.html

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