Accounting for Growth: Information Systems and the Creation of the Large Corporation
by Margaret Levenstein
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Hardcover: 296 pages
Publisher: Stanford University Press; 1 edition July 1, 1998
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0804730032
ISBN-13: 978-0804730037
Product Dimensions:
9.4 x 6.3 x 0.9 inches
Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds
JoAnne Yates, MIT Journal of Economic History
"Economist Margaret Levenstein's Accounting for Growth: Information Systems and the Creation of the Large Corporation provides a rare and detailed account of the evolving information system of other growing chemical firm -- the Dow Chemical Company -- that developed differently. During the period covered by this study (1890 to 1914), Dow grew, changed leadership (and corporate form), and moved from an 'adaptive' to an 'innovative' strategy, a shift which drove changes in its structure and its information system. Levenstein gives us a richly articulated view of the complex interactions between a firm's strategy and its information system that will be welcomed by economic and business historians and should be required reading for economists of the firm."
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“Levenstein gives us a richly articulated view of the complex interactions between a firm's strategy and its information system that will be welcomed by economic and business historians and should be required reading for economists of the firm.” —Joanne Yates, Journal of Economic History
