Lance Davis and Douglass North, Institutional Change and American Economic Growth, (New York: Cambridge Univ. Press, 1971), 140 ff.

Alfred Chandler, ed., The Railroads: The Nations First Big Business, (New York: Harcourt, Brace and World, 1965)

Alfred Chandler, ed., The Visible Hand: The Managerial Revolution in American Business, (Cambridge: Harvard Univ. Press, 1977), 1-187.

For a critique, see Charles Perrow, Organizing America: Wealth, Power, and the Origins of Corporate Capitalism, (Princeton: Princeton Univ. Press, 2002), 113-17.