In the 1950s and 60s Manne pioneered the application of economic principles to the study of corporations and corporate law, authoring seminal articles that transformed the field.
Case studies of corporations that have attempted to develop a new or revised segmentation strategy are used to illustrate each of these areas.
I examined this pattern of imbalance and correction in a two-year field study of eight corporations in the consumer, industrial, and service sectors.
In the final report of our eight-year study of how corporations address sustainability, MIT Sloan Management Review and The Boston Consulting Group examine the crossroads at which sustainability now finds itself.
A study of sizable corporations during the same period, which included such household names as DuPont, Exxon, IBM, Procter & Gamble, Sara Lee, 3M, and Xerox, found that they divested or closed 44% of their internally generated start-ups and 50% of their joint ventures in the first six years.
Chandler was also known for his books Strategy and Structure (1962), which explored the organization of large corporate enterprises, and Scale and Scope: The Dynamics of Industrial Capitalism (1990), a comparative study of successful corporations in the U.S., the U.K., and Germany.
A study of large corporations found that the ones, "with the most advanced analytics capabilities are outperforming competitors by wide margins".
"They really pulled it off, from a near disaster," said David C Robertson, American author of Brick by Brick, a study of the Lego corporation.
For example, a controlled experimental study of 1,361 global corporation managers showed that feedback-based coaching increased managers' propensity to seek advice and improved their performance (as judged by their direct reports) one year later.
One of his favorite books was "Moral Mazes," by Robert Jackall, an anthropological study of several large corporations, which examined how the structure of the corporations created a corporate morality.
The most comprehensive recent study of what larger corporations actually pay by three academic accountants – professors at Duke, MIT and the University of North Carolina – gets at that truth.
