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Organizational Capabilities and the Economic History of the Industrial Enterprise
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In my book Scale and Scope (1990), I focused on the history of the modern industrial firm from the 1880s, when such firms first appeared, through World War II. I did so by comparing the fortunes of more than 600 enterprises—the 200 largest industrial firms at three points in time (World War I, 1929, and World War II) in each of the three major industrial economies (those of the United States, Britain, and Germany). In this paper, I first describe the similarities in the historical beginnings and continuing evolution of these enterprises and then outline my explanation for these similarities. Next, I relate my explanation of these “empirical regularities” to four major economic theories relating to the firm: the neoclassical, the principal-agent, the transaction cost, and the evolutionary. Finally, I suggest the value of the transactions cost and evolutionary theories to historians and economists who are attempting to explain the beginnings and growth of modern industrial enterprises.
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“Such challengers did appear, but only a few of them.”
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“The creation, maintenance and expansion of such capabilities permitted American and German firms in the two decades before World War I to drive British competitors from international markets, and even Britain's home market, in most of the capital-intensive industries of the Second Industrial Revolution.”
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“These industrial firms first appeared as modern transportation and communication networks were completed-networks that themselves were built, operated, enlarged and coordinated by large hierarchical firms.”
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“Firms grew by moving backward to control materials and forward to control outlets (vertical integration); but, as will be described shortly, they did so largely in response to the specifics of the short-lived business needs or opportunities.”
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“Although product pricing remained a significant competitive weapon, these firms competed even more forcefully through functional and strategic efficiency”
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“In geographical expansion that utilized the capabilities honed in exploiting the economies of scale, the firm usually concentrated on a single line of products.”
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“In machinery the British did not even try.”
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“AEG sold more products in Britain than did the largest British firm.”
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“This is why so many of the new companies met their needs by building almost immediately a national marketing and distribution network staffed by their managers and workers.”
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“In the years following World War I, the first movers and a small number of challengers continued to grow by entering markets abroad and those of related industries.”
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“So too, organizational learning permitted Japanese firms, first, to carry out a massive transfer of technology from the west to Japan; then, as Japan's domestic market grew enough to permit building enterprises large enough to exploit potential economies of scale and scope, to develop organizational capabilities necessary for competitive advantage in international markets.”
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“The first firms to make the three-pronged investments in manufacturing, marketing, and management essential to exploit fully the economies of scale and scope quickly dominated their industries.Most continued to do so for decades.”
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“In this climate of oligopolistic competition, market share and profits changed constantly.”
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“They made it possible for German enterprises to regain their position in world markets swiftly after a decade of war, defeat and inflation between 1914 and 1924, and to come back again in the 1950s after a far more devastating war.”
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“A new type of industrial enterprise appeared suddenly in the last two decades of the 19th century.”
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“Throughout the 20th century, these firms were created and continued to grow in much the same manner, and they continued to cluster in industries with the same characteristics.”
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“Moreover, a new electrolytic process transformed and greatly reduced costs of producing copper, aluminum, and several chemicals.”
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“An Englishman, William Perkin, invented the first such dyes.”
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“The world's largest market for man-made dyes remained, until after World War II, the huge British textile industry.”
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“By then Singer produced 79,000 machines annually in its Moscow factory with a work force of 2,500 wage earners and 300 salaried employees; while its salesforce of more than 27,000 covering the vast territory from the Sea of Japan to the Baltic.”
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“After World War I, leaders in these major capital-intensive, oligopolistic industries continued to expand existing foreign beach-heads and to enter new territories.”
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“The new industry provided new sources of light and power that altered urban living and transportation, and also changed the workplace.”
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“For example, the new capital-intensive industries had a much greater need to monitor high-level throughput than the older labor-intensive ones.Therefore, firms in the capital-intensive industries internalized distribution, while those in the labor-intensive ones continued to rely on independent distributors”
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“Dyes are made from coal, and Britain had the largest supplies of high quality coal in Europe.”
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“While the British continued to rely on jobbers to distribute the product, the Germans created a worldwide sales force; for every user of dyes in the production of cloth, leather, paper, and other materials had to be taught how to apply the new products.”
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“The first major products of this industry were synthetic dyes, and here British entrepreneurs were the pioneers.”
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“Nothing comparable occurred in Britain, even though Sir William Mather, senior partner of Mather & Platt, one of the largest British textile machinery manufacturers, had obtained the Edison patents at the same time as had Emil Rathenau at AEG.”
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“During the war, their subsidiaries in Allied nations were expropriated and usually turned over to their competitors in those countries.”
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“The chemical industry was the most technologically advanced of the new industries, and provided the widest range of new industrial and consumer products including man-made dyes, medicines, fertilizers, textiles, film, and other materials.”
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“In sewing machines the Singer Sewing Machine and in agricultural equipment McCormick Harvesting Machine (it became the core of International Harvester, a 1902 merger) were the world leaders.”
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“Its subsidiaries in Britain and France were the largest producers in those nations.”
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“It held 25 percent of the stock of Germany's AEG and had comparable investments in leading electrical manufacturers in Mexico, South Africa, and Japan.”
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“If these companyspecific and industry-specific capabilities continued to be enhanced by constant learning about products, processes, customers, suppliers, and other relationships between workers and managers within the firm, enterprises in capitalintensive industries were usually able to remain competitive and profitable.If not, they normally lost market share in domestic and international markets”
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“Such learned skills and knowledge were company-specific and industry-specific.They were not, of course, patentable.They were difficult to transfer from one industry to another, or even from one company to another, precisely because they had been learned within a very specific organizational context.”
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“In metals the British pioneered, but the Germans and Americans made the necessary investments that quickly drove the British from international markets.”
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“If so, then the swift and dramatic success of the German and American integrated companies over their less-integrated British rivals in the last decades before World War I demonstrates how the creation of organizational capabilities through the initial investment in production and distribution permitted first-movers in the new and the transformed industries of the Second Industrial Revolution”
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- Rests on an assumption: The ability to gain and maintain market share and profits tests the efficiency of a capitalist enterprise, particularly in foreign markets.
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“Thus, transactions cost analysis is of great value in analyzing why volume producers rarely entered retailing, and why mass marketers rarely entered manufacturing.”
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“The answer requires a consideration of how the enterprises evolve their organizational capabilities and how their long-term competitive strength and weakness reflect these learned capabilities as well as those of their competitors from abroad and related industries.”
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- Rests on an assumption: The historical cases reviewed are representative enough to support general conclusions about the role of organizational capabilities in competitive success and industry creation.
- Rests on an assumption: Differences in organizational capabilities and investments, rather than other unexamined factors, explain the observed competitive successes and failures of firms and national industries.
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“This brief review of the beginning and growth of the modern industrial enterprise suggests how the evolutionary theory of the firm, which emphasizes continuous learning that makes a firm's assets dynamic, provides an understanding of why in the past new firms began through the process of integrating production and distribution and why and how they grew by expanding into new markets.”
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- Rests on an assumption: Differences in organizational capabilities and investments, rather than other unexamined factors, explain the observed competitive successes and failures of firms and national industries.
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“Two world wars and the intervening Great Depression weakened the competitive strength of the U.S. firms' most powerful rivals, particularly the Germans.”
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The ability to gain and maintain market share and profits tests the efficiency of a capitalist enterprise, particularly in foreign markets.
“The ability to gain and maintain market share and profits tests the efficiency of a capitalist enterprise, particularly in foreign markets where different laws, customs, working habits, and availability of supplies tend to favor domestic producers.”
The paper relies on this without support.
The historical cases reviewed are representative enough to support general conclusions about the role of organizational capabilities in competitive success and industry creation.
“This brief review of the beginning and growth of the modern industrial enterprise suggests how the evolutionary theory of the firm, which emphasizes continuous learning that makes a firm's assets dynamic, provides an understanding of why in the past new firms began through the process of integrating production and distribution and why and how they grew by expanding into new markets.”
The paper relies on this without support.
Differences in organizational capabilities and investments, rather than other unexamined factors, explain the observed competitive successes and failures of firms and national industries.
“The point of recounting this bit of history is to document that, unless investments were made essential to utilize the cost advantages of scale and scope, the enterprises and the industries and national economies in which they operated lost out in international markets to foreign enterprises that made them.”
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Metadata
- Authors
- Chandler, A. D.
- Affiliations
- Harvard University (US)
- Corresponding author
- Chandler, Alfred D
- Venue
- Journal of Economic Perspectives
- Publisher
- American Economic Association
- Published
- 1992-08-01
- Volume
- 6
- Issue
- 3
- Pages
- 79-100
- ISSN
- 0895-3309 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W2031847699
- Cited by
- 847
- References
- 10
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- FWCI
- 33.48
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- bronze
- doi.org
- Locations
- The Journal of Economic Perspectives (publishedVersion)
- RePEc: Research Papers in Economics (submittedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Economics, Econometrics and Finance › Economics and Econometrics › Economic Theory and Institutions
- Social Sciences › Economics, Econometrics and Finance › Economics and Econometrics › Historical Economic and Social Studies
- Social Sciences › Economics, Econometrics and Finance › Economics and Econometrics › Firm Innovation and Growth
- Keywords
- industrial firm, organizational capabilities, history of the firm, transaction cost economics, evolutionary theory of the firm, agency theory, neoclassical theory of the firm, World War I, World War II
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