Big Business and the Wealth of Nations
Big Business and the Wealth of Nations

Author: Alfred D. Chandler

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 1997

Total Pages: 612

ISBN-13: 9780521663472

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Written in nontechnical terms, Big Business and the Wealth of Nations explains how the dynamics of big business have influenced national and international economies in the twentieth century. A path-breaking study, it provides the first systematic treatment of big business in advanced, emerging, and centrally planned economies from the late nineteenth century, when big businesses first appeared in American and West European manufacturing, to the present. These essays, written by internationally known historians and economists, help one to understand the essential role and functions of big businesses, past and present.

Business History
Business History

Author: Franco Amatori

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2013-03-01

Total Pages: 313

ISBN-13: 1136732411

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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 – from just before the industrial revolution right up to the present day. Business History is global in scope and looks at the major players – Europe, the US and Japan – as well as emerging economies, such as China and India. 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 up-to-date 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.

World Textile Industry
World Textile Industry

Author: John Singleton

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2013-05-13

Total Pages: 232

ISBN-13: 1134683693

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This book analyzes the competitive forces which dominate this major sector, and traces how the nature of competition has evolved during the last two hundred years. Through an analysis of key factors, including demand, related and supporting industries, firm strategy, structure and national rivalry, chance and government policy, the author explains how and why the locus of competitive advantage in textiles and apparel has moved from country to country, particularly in the period since 1945.

International Production and the Multinational Enterprise (RLE International Business)
International Production and the Multinational Enterprise (RLE International Business)

Author: John H Dunning

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2013-03-05

Total Pages: 447

ISBN-13: 1135134146

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The growth and impact of the multinational enterprise (MNE) in the post war period is one of the most important phenomena of our time. This volume, originally published in 1981 provides a comprehensive and detailed review of both the theoretical and policy issues at a time when the subject had reached a watershed, after the controversies of the 1970s. The book provides a balanced discussion of major themes such as the development of modern theories of international production; the impact of the MNE on the nation-state and the structure of the international market; the response of governments and the appropriate framework for policy measures; and the historical context and likely future of the MNE.

The Japanese Enterprise System
The Japanese Enterprise System

Author: W. Mark Fruin

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 1992

Total Pages: 420

ISBN-13: 9780198288985

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This volume merges four streams of inquiry and interpretation in a study of the evolution and emergence of Japan's leading industrial firms during the twentieth century. First, it is a historical study of how the industrial institutions of modern Japan appeared and matured. Second, it is anorganization study of the basic forms of social and economic interaction in Japan. Third, it is a development study of how circumstances of rapid technical and economic change have shaped the Japanese business system. It is also a strategy study of how Japanese managers have responded to andshaped these circumstances. This fourfold synthesis offers a model of institutional development under conditions of late economic development and private initiative that falls somewhere between a capitalist development state and a free market economy. Business policy rather than industrial policy is accentuated, revealing aset of robust institutions and a dynamic to activate and interrelate them.

Industrial Enterprise and European Integration
Industrial Enterprise and European Integration

Author: Jack Ernest Shalom Hayward

Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

Published: 1995

Total Pages: 396

ISBN-13: 9780198279723

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National champions are firms promoted by governments to defend the national interest in the international market. This text looks at how European national champions have fared under the pressure of European integration and in an increasingly competitive wo

European Modernity and Beyond
European Modernity and Beyond

Author: Göran Therborn

Publisher: SAGE

Published: 1995-03-06

Total Pages: 416

ISBN-13: 0857025937

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In this book one of Europe′s foremost sociologists offers a profound and accessible overview of the trajectory of European societies, East and West, since the end of World War II. Combining theoretical depth with factual analysis, Göran Therborn addresses the questions that underpin an understanding of the nature of European modernity, including: To what extent is the period 1945-2000 producing fundamental change and what are the areas of continuity? Have the societies of Europe become more similar to others on the globe or more distinctively European? What are the prospects of Europe after decades of postwar change and the end of the Cold War? Issues covered include the division of paid and unpaid labour, patterns of rights in different social spheres, the development of mass consumption, the evolution of risks, the spatial range of economic and cultural change, collective memory and identities, the geography of happiness, and modes of collective action. The author relates these issues to the two great social steering projects of the period - socialism in the East and the European Union in the West.

Global Cities
Global Cities

Author: Anthony D King

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2015-03-27

Total Pages: 203

ISBN-13: 131750416X

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Since the late 1970s the role of key world cities such as Los Angeles, New York and London as centres of global control and co-ordination has come under increasing scrutiny. This book provides an overview and critique of work on the global context of metropolitan growth, world city formation and the theory it has generated. Suggesting ‘post-imperialism’ as the most appropriate framework for analysis, the author demonstrates the extent to which urban and regional development, both in Britain and elsewhere, were linked to a colonial mode of production, and highlights the effects of its disappearance. Against this background, the author charts the transformation of London from imperial capital in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries to world city in the capitalist world economy of today.

Gebroken welvaartscirkel
Gebroken welvaartscirkel

Author: Herman van der Wee

Publisher: Univ of California Press

Published: 1986-01-01

Total Pages: 628

ISBN-13: 9780520058194

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A survey of recent economic history looks at war recovery, government policy, stagflation, world food sources, labor flexibility, industrial research, trade deficits, and the Oil Crisis