Business History : Complexities and Comparisons

ISBN-13: 9780415423960 / Angielski / Twarda / 2011 / 272 str.

Franco Amatori;Andrea Colli

Opis

This major new textbook on business history brings together the expertise of two internationally renowned authors to provide a thorough overview of the developments in business over the last two centuries.

Business History is global in scope and looks at both the major players – Europe, the US and Japan – as well as emerging economies, such as China and South America. Focusing mainly on ‘big business‘, Amatori and Colli critically analyze ‘the firm‘ and its interaction with the evolution of economic, technological and political systems at the micro and macro levels.

This outstanding textbook is an exceptional resource for students on economic and business history courses, as well as for practitioners interested in broadening their understanding of business.

Spis treści

Part 1: Relevant Issues  1. Introduction  2. Business History and Theories of the Firm  3. Entrepreneurship  Part 2: The Company Between the Pre-Industrial Era and the First Industrial Revolution  4. Pre-Industrial Manufacturing  5. Enterprises and Entrepreneurs of the First Industrial Revolution  6. Technology, Society and the Factory System  Part 3: The Birth and Consolidation of Big Business  7. Infrastructures  8. Technology and Organization  9. National Patterns  Part 4: State and Market in the Period between the Two World Wars  10. The Multi-Divisional Corporation and Managerial Capitalism  11. Europe between the Two Wars: Convergence and Divergence with the U.S.  12. At the Origins of the Japanese Miracle: Entrepreneurship, the State and Business Groups  Part 5: From the Post-War Years to the Fall of the Wall: The Age of 'Shrinking' Space  13. From World War II to the Third Industrial Revolution  14. American Hegemony and its Aftermath  15. The Soviet Union: The Antagonist  16. Japan: The Challenger  17. Hybrid Europe  18. Different Strategies for 'Catching Up': South Korea and Argentina  19. Multinationals: Quid Novi?  Part 6: The Globalization of Today  20. New Forms of Enterprise  21. The 'Roaring Nineties': America is Back  22. Slowing Down: Japan and Europe  23. New Protagonists: China and India  24. A Last Look

O autorze

Franco Amatori is Professor of Economic History and is also head of the Institute of Economic History, at Bocconi University, Italy. He specialized in business history during his time at Harvard Business School, USA and has written extensively on Italian and international business history.

Andrea Colli is Associate Professor in Economic History at Bocconi University, Italy. He has published several books in fields such as: the structure and evolution of SMEs, as well as the role of family firms in modern economic growth. In 2008 he was awarded the Harold Williamson prize for the most promising mid-career business historian by the Business History Conference.