The purpose of writing Scale and Scope was to examine, within the historical context of national and international economies, the similarities and differences in the evolution of large-scale for-profit industrial enterprises in the three leading industrial nations, namely the United States, Great Britain and Germany. The study covers three-quarters of a century, from the time of the Second Industrial Revolution of the last quarter of the nineteenth century, which was driven by new capital-using and scale-dependent technologies, until the coming of World War II, when the direct and drastic impact of those technologies became relatively stabilised and the micro- and macro-economic environment critically altered. During these years, and still today, the capital-intensive industries have played a central role in driving technological advance for the growth of global as well as national economies, and these industries have been dominated by managerial enterprises.