Written by the world's leading experts, this book provides a consensus of insider views - essential for investors, fund managers, business leaders and consultants.
Written by the world's leading experts, this book provides a consensus of insider views - essential for investors, fund managers, business leaders and...
The English East India Company was the mother of the modern multinational. Its trading empire encircled the globe, importing Asian luxuries such as spices, textiles and teas. But it also conquered much of India with its private army and broke open China's markets with opium. The Company s practices shocked its contemporaries and still reverberate today. "The Corporation That Changed the World" is the first book to reveal the Company s enduring legacy as a corporation. This expanded edition explores how the four forces of scale, technology, finance and regulation drove its spectacular...
The English East India Company was the mother of the modern multinational. Its trading empire encircled the globe, importing Asian luxuries such as...
This new book tells the remarkable story of the design and construction of the many merchant ships that not only contributed to their country's war efforts, but were also responsible for a cultural change in world shipbuilding that would lay the foundations for the post-war industry.
Some of the story has been told piecemeal in a range of diverse books and articles, a few with extensive fleet lists; however, the complete history of the twentieth century wartime-built standard merchant ship has not previously been written, so this new volume recording that history within its appropriate...
This new book tells the remarkable story of the design and construction of the many merchant ships that not only contributed to their country's war ef...
