caa a22 4500 388070005 CHVBK 20180307125145.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161130e199909 xx s 000 0 eng 10.1017/S0022050700023597 doi S0022050700023597 pii (NATIONALLICENCE)cambridge-10.1017/S0022050700023597 Tunzelmann G. N. von University of Sussex Big Business, Growth, and Decline [Elektronische Daten] [G. N. von Tunzelmann] The downside of Chandler's success is that it has placed the large enterprise and the American economy on a pedestal, next to which eveiy other case appears a fumbling effort towards their apparent virtues. As some of the individual country studies in CAH show, well before even Chandler set out on this mission, American management consultants such as McKinsey were "exporting” the M-form company structure as their nostrum for all the world's business ills. As is shown in Fear's chapter and in several others, this involved a very simplistic diagnosis ofwhat those ills consisted of. The M-form conferred substantial advantages at a certain time and place in the evolution of industry, but it was no panacea. Furthermore, as I have suggested previously, its aetiology for comprehending its own prognoses was too shallow. Copyright © The Economic History Association 1999 The Journal of Economic History Cambridge University Press 59/3(1999-09), 787-794 0022-0507 59:3<787 1999 59 JEH https://doi.org/10.1017/S0022050700023597 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 review-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1017/S0022050700023597 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Tunzelmann G. N. von University of Sussex NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- The Journal of Economic History Cambridge University Press 59/3(1999-09), 787-794 0022-0507 59:3<787 1999 59 JEH CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-cambridge