The Competitive Performance of U.S. Industrial Enterprises since the Second World War
本文回顾了从19世纪末第二次工业革命到二战结束的美国工业企业背景，考察了战后竞争、金融市场和公司管理的变化，并基于实证研究分析了美国企业如何维持、增强或丧失组织能力，以及公司控制权市场如何影响这一行为。
This article begins with an overview of the changing context of U.S. industrial enterprise from the Second Industrial Revolution of the late nineteenth century to the end of the Second World War. It then examines the changes in the nature of competition, in the financial markets, and in corporate management that transformed the industrial environment in the postwar decades. Against that historical background, the essay describes in detail the results of an empirical study aimed at discovering how U.S. companies maintained, increased, or dissipated their organizational capabilities and how the market for corporate control affected that behavior.