Chandler: A Retrospect |
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| Authors: | Wilkins Mira |
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| Institution: | MIRA WILKINS is Professor of Economics at Florida International University, Miami, Florida. Her first book, that set her on the path of studying the history of multinational enterprise, was Mira Wilkins and Frank Ernst Hill, American Business Abroad: Ford on Six Continent (1964). Next came The Emergence of Multinational Enterprise (1970) and The Maturing of Multinational Enterprise (1974), chronicling the history of American business abroad. Then came The History of Foreign Investment in the United States to 1914 (1989) and The History of Foreign Investment in the United States, 1914–1945 (2004). All four of these broad studies were published by Harvard University Press. She has published other books and many articles on the history of multinational enterprise. Currently, she is working on the third volume of her history of foreign investment in the United States, which will carry that story to the present. She is a former president of the Business History Conference, and received, after Alfred Chandler, the second life time achievement award (in 2004) from that organization. Her most recent book, William Hausman, Peter Hertner, and Mira Wilkins, Global Electrification: Multinational Enterprise and International Finance in the History of Light and Power, 1878–2007, was published in the Spring of 2008 |
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| Abstract: | I met Al Chandler in late 1962 (or early 1963), when he visitedthe Graduate School of Business, Columbia University, as a guestof Associate Dean Clarence Walton. Chandler gave a seminar,based on his new book Strategy and Structure. I was then atColumbia Business School, completing my (and Frank Ernest Hill’s)archive-based history of Ford Motor Company's internationaloperations, which was my first book. As my next project, I wasseeking to write an overall history of US business abroad. Iwanted to figure out whether patterns I had found in my researchon Ford abroad were typical (or atypical) of US corporations,in general, as the latter expanded worldwide. Recently, I looked at the preface (dated June 1963) of our AmericanBusiness Abroad: Ford on Six Continents, published in 1964;there was no acknowledgment of the |
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