King of the Multinational Highway or Winston Tastes good watching Captain Kangeroo

[alice wellintown]

Chandler, shame on him, ignores labor in his brilliant book, _The
Visible Hand_, but those keen to understand what Big International
Business aint or what a post War II  American  corporation is, have
little choice but to open this book and read. And, it is so
brilliantly composed, so well written, a rare thing these days, what
with the influence of those flashy and feathered French
We-constructionists, that one can't help but be drawn into it and
finish it in a day or three.

A Brief Review:

The experience of the American Tobacco Company provides several
important lessons for understanding the rise and function of the large
entrepreneurial enterprise. First, the massive output made possible by
application of continuous-process machinery to manufacturing caused
and indeed almost forced the creation of a worldwide, integrated
organization. The resulting managerial hierarchy permitted its creator
to dominate first the cigarette and then the rest of the tobacco
industry, except for cigars. The founder fully realized the importance
of his organization. According to his biographer, he always considered
that his major task was to find and bring forward competent managers.

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