Corporate Beneficiaries of the Mid-Century Wars: Respecifying Models of Corporate Growth, 1939-1959

In: Social science quarterly, Band 77, Heft 2, S. 301-313

Abstract

Building on Neil Fligstein's (1990) analysis of growth, 1939-1959, by adding measures of defense, it is suggested that defense spending had a large effect on corporate growth. A variety of government incentives supported such growth. It is concluded that organizational growth is a temporal process requiring historically specific analysis. Growth in the 1939-1959 period is attributed to the magnitude of output required during WWII & the Korean War, the federal government's reliance on private firms to supply wartime necessities, & investment incentives. 3 Tables, 23 References. Adapted from the source document.