UID:
almahu_9947414830602882
Format:
1 online resource (xii, 580 pages) :
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digital, PDF file(s).
ISBN:
9780511665349 (ebook)
Content:
Written in non-technical terms, this book explains how the dynamics of big business have influenced national and international economies. 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. Large industrial enterprises play a vital role in developing new technologies and commercializing new products in all of the major countries. How such firms emerged and evolved in different economic, political, and social settings constitutes a significant part of twentieth-century world history. This historical review of big business is particularly valuable today, when the viability of large enterprises is being challenged by small firms, networks, and alliances. These essays, written by internationally-known historians and economists, help one understand the essential role and functions of big business.
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Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
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Historical and comparative contours of big business /
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Large industrial enterprise and the dynamics of modern economic growth /
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United States : engines of economic growth in the capital-intensive and knowledge-intensive industries /
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Great Britain : big business, management, and competitiveness in twentieth-century Britain /
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Germany : competition abroad -- cooperation at home, 1870-1900 /
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Small European nations : cooperative capitalism in the twentieth century /
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France : the relatively slow development of big business in the twentieth century /
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Italy : the tormented rise of organizational capabilities between government and families /
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Spain : big manufacturing firms between state and market, 1917-1990 /
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Japan : increasing organizational capabilites of large industrial enterprises, 1880's-1980's /
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South Korea : enterprising groups and entrepreneurial government /
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Argentina : industrial growth and enterprise organization, 1880's-1980's /
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USSR : large enterprises in the USSR -- the functional disorder /
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Czechoslovakia : the halting pace to scope and scale /
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Organizational competences, firm size and the wealth of nations : some comments from a comparative perspective /
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Managerial control, capital markets, and the wealth of nations /
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Big business and skill formation in the wealthiest nations : the organizational revolution in the twentieth century /
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Government, big business and the wealth of nations /
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Constructing big business : the cultural concept of the firm /
Additional Edition:
Print version: ISBN 9780521481236
Language:
English
URL:
https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511665349
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