Business History
Published on 21. December 2004
Book
Hardback
1468 pages
978-1-4129-0263-2 (ISBN)
Description
The past shapes the present and plays into the future. Business History provides an overview of the development of the national and international economy, besides providing key insights into industrial structure and the evolution of business strategies. This collection presents some of the most important journal articles, written in English, on the business history of modern capitalism. The majority relate to the 20th century and all illuminate various aspects of the modern business system and the corporations (and small businesses) that have been its pillars.
The articles have been arranged in five broad sections spanning the business environment, organizational development, globalization, entrepreneurship and management, and ethics and the environment. Within these prime divisions there are subordinate but discrete topics, such as the state and business; business and technical change; business strategy; corporate merger-making; multinational enterprise; small-and-medium enterprise; entrepreneurship; management; marketing; labour management; business culture; boardroom governance; business ethics; and corporate crime.
The articles have been arranged in five broad sections spanning the business environment, organizational development, globalization, entrepreneurship and management, and ethics and the environment. Within these prime divisions there are subordinate but discrete topics, such as the state and business; business and technical change; business strategy; corporate merger-making; multinational enterprise; small-and-medium enterprise; entrepreneurship; management; marketing; labour management; business culture; boardroom governance; business ethics; and corporate crime.
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Edition
Four-Volume Set
Language
English
Place of publication
Thousand Oaks
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Cloth over boards
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 156 mm
Weight
2810 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-4129-0263-2 (9781412902632)
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Content
PART ONE: BUSINESS ENVIRONMENT
The 'Industrial Military Complex' in Historical Perspective - P A C Koistinen
World War I
A Model for Technological Change Applied to the Turbojet Revolution - Edward W Constant II
Research, Patents, and the Struggle to Control Radio - Leonard S Reich
A Study of Big Business and the Uses of Industrial Research
From Competitor to Consumer - Tedlow, Richard S,
The Changing Focus of Federal Regulation of Advertising, 1914-1938
Eckert-Mauchly Computers - N B Stern
Conceptual Triumphs, Commercial Tribulations
The Political Economy of Demoralization - Barry Supple
The State and the Coalmining Industry in Britain and America between the Wars
The Role of Energy Supplies During Western Europe's Golden Age, 1950-1972 - J A Hassan and A Duncan
Business Led' Organisation: British Rail, 1977-1979 - Terence R Gourvish
Government Industry Relations in Britain's Public Sector
What have the Lawyers Done for American Business? - Kenneth Lipartito
The Case of Baker and Botts of Houston
Ford Automates - David Hounshell
Technology and Organization in Theory and Practice
Americanization and its Limits - Jonathan Zeitlin
Theory and Practice in the Reconstruction of Britain's Engineering Industries, 1945-55
Pharmaceutical Firms and the Transition to Biotechnology - Louis Galambos and Jeffrey L Sturchio
A Study in Strategic Innovation
PART TWO: BUSINESS ORGANIZATION
Industrial Development of Mainland China 1912-1949 - J K Chang
Takeover Bids in Britain before 1950 - Leslie Hannah
An Exercise in Business 'Pre-History'
New Industries for Old? - Robert J Irving
Some Investment Decisions of Sir W G Armstrong-Whitworth & Co Ltd, 1900-1914
Lancashire's Last Stand - John Singleton,
Declining Employment in the British Cotton Industry, 1950-1970
The British Experience of Profit Sharing - Derek Matthews
Scale & Scope - Review Colloquium
Diversity in Diversity - Philip Scranton
Flexible Production and American Industrialisation, 1880-1930
Stategic Manoeuvring and Mass Market Dynamics - Michael Cusumano and Y Mylonadis
The Triumph of VHS over Beta
IBM and its Imitators - Steven W Usselman
Organizational Capabilities and the Emergence of the International Computer Industry
Organizing and Reorganizing the World Bank, 1946-1972 - Louis Galambos and David Milobsky
A Comparative Perspective
Elaborations, Revisions, Dissents - Richard R John,
A D Chandler's The Visible Hand after Twenty Years
The Emergence of Big Business - Peter Wardley
The Largest Corporate Employers of Labour in the UK, Germany, USA, c.1907
The Apotheosis of Holding Company Accounting - Kees Camfferman and Stephen A Zeff
Unilever's Financial Reporting Innovations from the 1920s to the 1940s
PART THREE: GLOBAL BUSINESS
China, the US Navy, and the Bethlehem Steel Company, 1909-1929 - W R Braisted
Oil and Antitrust - B I Kaufman
The Oil Cartel Case and the Cold War
The Growth of the Transnational Industrial Firm in the United States and the United Kingdom - A D Chandler
A Comparative Analysis
Technology Transfer as War Booty - A Krammer
The US Technical Oil Mission to Europe, 1945
The Emergence of US Multinational Enterprise - Michael French
The Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company, 1910-1939
Japanese Multinationals in the United States - Mira Wilkins
Continuity and Change, 1879-1990
The Green Revolution in India - G Parayil
A Case Study of Technological Change
The Marketing Strategies of Platt Bros & Co Ltd of Oldham, 1906-1940 - Douglas A Farnie
Foreign Multinationals in British Manufacturing, 1850-1962 - Frances Bostock and Geoffrey Jones
From Privilege to Popularity - P J Lyth and M L Dierikx
The Growth of Leisure Air Travel since 1945
American Management Consulting Companies in Western Europe, 1920 to 1990: - Matthias Kipping
Products, Reputation and Relationships
PART FOUR: ENTREPRENEURS AND MANAGMENT
Gentleman and Players - Donald C Coleman
Exit, Voice, Loyalty as Responses to Decline - James Foreman-Peck
The Rover Company in the Interwar Years
University Graduates in Japanese Enterprises before the Second World War - Shin'ichi Yonekawa
Business Education in Germany - Robert R Locke
Past Systems and Current Practice
Corporatism in Comparative Perspective - Larry G Gerber
The Impact of the First World War on American and British Labor Relations
Entrepreneurial Dominance in Businesses Large and Small, Past and Present - Harold C Livesay
The Corporation Nobody Knew - Roland Marchand
Bruce Barton, Alfred Sloan and the Founding of General Motors 'Family'
The Rise of Entrepreneurs in Nigerian Motor Transport - P Drummond-Thompson
A Study in Indigenous Enterprise
Deconstructing Nuffield - Roy Church
The Evolution of Managerial Culture in the British Motor Car Industry
Not Rosie the Riveter - M Walsh
Women's Diverse Roles in the Making of the American Long-Distance Bus Industry
Show business in the living room' - James L Baughman
Management expectations for American television, 1947-56
The Business Doctors - Derek Matthews
Accountants in British Management from the 19th Century to the Present Day
Ferranti and the accountant, 1896-1975 - John F Wilson
The Struggle Between Priorities and Reality
PART FIVE: ETHICS AND ENVIRONMENT
Nuclear Power and the Environment - J S Walker
The Atomic Energy Commission and Thermal Pollution, 1965-1971
The Enlightened Paternalist in Action - David J Jeremy
William Hesketh Lever at Port Sunlight before 1914
Working Environments - Arthur F McEvoy
An Ecological Approach to Industrial Health and Safety
Where lie the boundaries of the corporation? - Roland Marchand
Explorations in corporate responsibility in the 1930s
Accounting and Control in Barclays Bank (DCO) - Chibuike Uche
The Lending to Africans Episode
The Historical Development of Business Philanthropy - M Marinetto
Social Responsibility in the New Corporate Economy
Compensating the Workers - Geoffrey Tweedale and David J Jeremy
Industrial Injury and Compensation in the British Asbestos Industry, 1930s-1960s
Toxic Purity - C Warren
The Progressive Era Origins of America's Lead Paint Poisoning Epidemic
Turning Silk Purses into Sows' Ears - John Smith
Environmental History and the Chemical Industry
History and the Global Corporate Governance Revolution - Brian R Cheffins
The UK Perspective
Ownership Responsibilities and Corporate Governance - Sue Bowden
The Crisis at Rolls Royce, 1968-1971
The 'Industrial Military Complex' in Historical Perspective - P A C Koistinen
World War I
A Model for Technological Change Applied to the Turbojet Revolution - Edward W Constant II
Research, Patents, and the Struggle to Control Radio - Leonard S Reich
A Study of Big Business and the Uses of Industrial Research
From Competitor to Consumer - Tedlow, Richard S,
The Changing Focus of Federal Regulation of Advertising, 1914-1938
Eckert-Mauchly Computers - N B Stern
Conceptual Triumphs, Commercial Tribulations
The Political Economy of Demoralization - Barry Supple
The State and the Coalmining Industry in Britain and America between the Wars
The Role of Energy Supplies During Western Europe's Golden Age, 1950-1972 - J A Hassan and A Duncan
Business Led' Organisation: British Rail, 1977-1979 - Terence R Gourvish
Government Industry Relations in Britain's Public Sector
What have the Lawyers Done for American Business? - Kenneth Lipartito
The Case of Baker and Botts of Houston
Ford Automates - David Hounshell
Technology and Organization in Theory and Practice
Americanization and its Limits - Jonathan Zeitlin
Theory and Practice in the Reconstruction of Britain's Engineering Industries, 1945-55
Pharmaceutical Firms and the Transition to Biotechnology - Louis Galambos and Jeffrey L Sturchio
A Study in Strategic Innovation
PART TWO: BUSINESS ORGANIZATION
Industrial Development of Mainland China 1912-1949 - J K Chang
Takeover Bids in Britain before 1950 - Leslie Hannah
An Exercise in Business 'Pre-History'
New Industries for Old? - Robert J Irving
Some Investment Decisions of Sir W G Armstrong-Whitworth & Co Ltd, 1900-1914
Lancashire's Last Stand - John Singleton,
Declining Employment in the British Cotton Industry, 1950-1970
The British Experience of Profit Sharing - Derek Matthews
Scale & Scope - Review Colloquium
Diversity in Diversity - Philip Scranton
Flexible Production and American Industrialisation, 1880-1930
Stategic Manoeuvring and Mass Market Dynamics - Michael Cusumano and Y Mylonadis
The Triumph of VHS over Beta
IBM and its Imitators - Steven W Usselman
Organizational Capabilities and the Emergence of the International Computer Industry
Organizing and Reorganizing the World Bank, 1946-1972 - Louis Galambos and David Milobsky
A Comparative Perspective
Elaborations, Revisions, Dissents - Richard R John,
A D Chandler's The Visible Hand after Twenty Years
The Emergence of Big Business - Peter Wardley
The Largest Corporate Employers of Labour in the UK, Germany, USA, c.1907
The Apotheosis of Holding Company Accounting - Kees Camfferman and Stephen A Zeff
Unilever's Financial Reporting Innovations from the 1920s to the 1940s
PART THREE: GLOBAL BUSINESS
China, the US Navy, and the Bethlehem Steel Company, 1909-1929 - W R Braisted
Oil and Antitrust - B I Kaufman
The Oil Cartel Case and the Cold War
The Growth of the Transnational Industrial Firm in the United States and the United Kingdom - A D Chandler
A Comparative Analysis
Technology Transfer as War Booty - A Krammer
The US Technical Oil Mission to Europe, 1945
The Emergence of US Multinational Enterprise - Michael French
The Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company, 1910-1939
Japanese Multinationals in the United States - Mira Wilkins
Continuity and Change, 1879-1990
The Green Revolution in India - G Parayil
A Case Study of Technological Change
The Marketing Strategies of Platt Bros & Co Ltd of Oldham, 1906-1940 - Douglas A Farnie
Foreign Multinationals in British Manufacturing, 1850-1962 - Frances Bostock and Geoffrey Jones
From Privilege to Popularity - P J Lyth and M L Dierikx
The Growth of Leisure Air Travel since 1945
American Management Consulting Companies in Western Europe, 1920 to 1990: - Matthias Kipping
Products, Reputation and Relationships
PART FOUR: ENTREPRENEURS AND MANAGMENT
Gentleman and Players - Donald C Coleman
Exit, Voice, Loyalty as Responses to Decline - James Foreman-Peck
The Rover Company in the Interwar Years
University Graduates in Japanese Enterprises before the Second World War - Shin'ichi Yonekawa
Business Education in Germany - Robert R Locke
Past Systems and Current Practice
Corporatism in Comparative Perspective - Larry G Gerber
The Impact of the First World War on American and British Labor Relations
Entrepreneurial Dominance in Businesses Large and Small, Past and Present - Harold C Livesay
The Corporation Nobody Knew - Roland Marchand
Bruce Barton, Alfred Sloan and the Founding of General Motors 'Family'
The Rise of Entrepreneurs in Nigerian Motor Transport - P Drummond-Thompson
A Study in Indigenous Enterprise
Deconstructing Nuffield - Roy Church
The Evolution of Managerial Culture in the British Motor Car Industry
Not Rosie the Riveter - M Walsh
Women's Diverse Roles in the Making of the American Long-Distance Bus Industry
Show business in the living room' - James L Baughman
Management expectations for American television, 1947-56
The Business Doctors - Derek Matthews
Accountants in British Management from the 19th Century to the Present Day
Ferranti and the accountant, 1896-1975 - John F Wilson
The Struggle Between Priorities and Reality
PART FIVE: ETHICS AND ENVIRONMENT
Nuclear Power and the Environment - J S Walker
The Atomic Energy Commission and Thermal Pollution, 1965-1971
The Enlightened Paternalist in Action - David J Jeremy
William Hesketh Lever at Port Sunlight before 1914
Working Environments - Arthur F McEvoy
An Ecological Approach to Industrial Health and Safety
Where lie the boundaries of the corporation? - Roland Marchand
Explorations in corporate responsibility in the 1930s
Accounting and Control in Barclays Bank (DCO) - Chibuike Uche
The Lending to Africans Episode
The Historical Development of Business Philanthropy - M Marinetto
Social Responsibility in the New Corporate Economy
Compensating the Workers - Geoffrey Tweedale and David J Jeremy
Industrial Injury and Compensation in the British Asbestos Industry, 1930s-1960s
Toxic Purity - C Warren
The Progressive Era Origins of America's Lead Paint Poisoning Epidemic
Turning Silk Purses into Sows' Ears - John Smith
Environmental History and the Chemical Industry
History and the Global Corporate Governance Revolution - Brian R Cheffins
The UK Perspective
Ownership Responsibilities and Corporate Governance - Sue Bowden
The Crisis at Rolls Royce, 1968-1971