The Environment in a Historical Perspective

H. Igor Ansoff

Chapter 3 in Strategic Management, 2007, pp 29-43 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract Modern business history in the United States starts roughly in the 1820s and 1830s. First the construction of a network of canals, and then of a nationwide railroad system, triggered a process of economic unification of the country. A stream of basic inventions — the steam engine, the cotton gin, the Bessemer steel process, the vulcanization of rubber — provided a technological base for a rapid industrial takeoff. Technological invention proceeded alongside social invention and the development of one of the most successful and influential organizations in history — the business firm.

Keywords: Strategic Management; Historical Perspective; Social Progress; Business Firm; Marketing Concept (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2007
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DOI: 10.1057/9780230590601_4

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