Written in nontechnical 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, 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. These essays, written by internationally-known historians and economists, help one understand the essential role and functions of big business.
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"While it is often tricky business to try to combine a variety of perspectives on any one subject, this ambitious, interdisciplinary approach to the study of the multinational corporation is vastly informative as well as path-breaking. Alfred Chandler and Bruce Mazlish have written fine bracketing essays that pull it all together. No one will come away from these well-chosen and erudite studies spanning history, economics, and sociology without a richer perspective on the multinational corporation and its evolving impacts." George Smith, NYU Stern School of Business
"In this important book leading scholars present new facts and brilliant insights concerning the legitimacy of the corporate giants that drive the irreversible processes of globalization. Wise managers will read it carefully." George C. Lodge, Harvard Business School
"While it is often tricky business to try to combine a variety of perspectives on any one subject, this ambitious, interdisciplinary approach to the study of the multinational corporation is vastly informative as well as path-breaking. Alfred Chandler and Bruce Mazlish have written fine bracketing essays that pull it all together. No one will come away from these well-chosen and erudite studies spanning history, economics, and sociology without a richer perspective on the multinational corporation and its evolving impacts." George Smith, NYU Stern School of Business
"In this important book leading scholars present new facts and brilliant insights concerning the legitimacy of the corporate giants that drive the irreversible processes of globalization. Wise managers will read it carefully." George C. Lodge, Harvard Business School
"While it is often tricky business to try to combine a variety of perspectives on any one subject, this ambitious, interdisciplinary approach to the study of the multinational corporation is vastly informative as well as path-breaking. Alfred Chandler and Bruce Mazlish have written fine bracketing essays that pull it all together. No one will come away from these well-chosen and erudite studies spanning history, economics, and sociology without a richer perspective on the multinational corporation and its evolving impacts." George Smith, NYU Stern School of Business
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Written in non-technical terms, Global Enterprise explains how the dynamics of big business have influenced national and international economies. The first systematic treatment of big business in advanced, emerging, and centrally-planned economies from the late nineteenth century, when big businesses first appeared, to the present. How such firms emerged and evolved in different economic, political, and social settings constitutes a significant part of twentieth century world history. This book is particularly valuable now that large enterprises are being challenged by small firms, networks, and alliances.
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...I can't argue with thee diligence of the scholars who contributed to this volume.Readers should be warned. If this is your first attempt at studying industrial history, it is difficult going. It is not really "economics" in the usual way. Nor is it history as you have usually read it. It is a series of case studies about the industrial development of nations all over the world, aimed at supporting some very controversial theses about what does and what does not work toward that end.
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This is a book that every person interested in entrepreneurial history should read. Directed, among others, by Alfred Chandler, the father of the discipline as it is now, it provides an overview of the different cultural and institutional backgrounds that make possible -or don't- entrepreneurship in many countries.
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This book aims to understand how "The Wealth of Nations" during the past century has been influenced by the dynamics of big business. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
private equipment investment, production economic units, personal capitalism, competitive managerial capitalism, international cartelization, oligopolistic core, cooperative capitalism, large industrial enterprises, managerial enterprise, gran empresa, largest industrial enterprises, zaibatsu companies, producer goods industries, mimeograph copy, salaried managers, modern industrial enterprise, learning base, learned capabilities, skill formation, intangible capital, big business groups, large industrial firms, organizational capabilities Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
United States, World War, New York, Harvard University Press, South Korea, Cambridge University Press, Oxford University Press, West German, Great Britain, United Kingdom, Buenos Aires, Alfred Chandler, Second Industrial Revolution, Western Europe, Hidemasa Morikawa, Geoffrey Jones, General Electric, Angus Maddison, Clarendon Press, Soviet Union, Standard Oil, General Motors, Herman Daems, William Lazonick, University of California Press New!
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This book aims to understand how "The Wealth of Nations" during the past century has been influenced by the dynamics of big business. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
private equipment investment, production economic units, personal capitalism, competitive managerial capitalism, international cartelization, oligopolistic core, cooperative capitalism, large industrial enterprises, managerial enterprise, gran empresa, largest industrial enterprises, zaibatsu companies, producer goods industries, mimeograph copy, salaried managers, modern industrial enterprise, learning base, learned capabilities, skill formation, intangible capital, big business groups, large industrial firms, organizational capabilities Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
United States, World War, New York, Harvard University Press, South Korea, Cambridge University Press, Oxford University Press, West German, Great Britain, United Kingdom, Buenos Aires, Alfred Chandler, Second Industrial Revolution, Western Europe, Hidemasa Morikawa, Geoffrey Jones, General Electric, Angus Maddison, Clarendon Press, Soviet Union, Standard Oil, General Motors, Herman Daems, William Lazonick, University of California Press New!
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- Scale and Scope: The Dynamics of Industrial Capitalism by Alfred D. Chandler Jr. on 34 pages
- Asia's Next Giant: South Korea and Late Industrialization (Oxford Paperbacks) by Alice H. Amsden on 8 pages
- Convergence of Productivity: Cross-National Studies and Historical Evidence by William J. Baumol on 5 pages
- Explaining the Economic Performance of Nations: Essays in Time and Space (Economists of the Twentieth Century) by Angus Maddison on 4 pages
- Strategy and Structure: Chapters in the History of the American Industrial Enterprise by Alfred D. Chandler on page 6, page 173, and Back Cover
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- Business History around the World (Comparative Perspectives in Business History) by Franco Amatori on 8 pages
- The History of Family Business, 1850-2000 (New Studies in Economic and Social History) by Andrea Colli on 4 pages
- Economic Management and French Business: From de Gaulle to Chirac by Mairi Maclean on 4 pages
- Contests for Corporate Control: Corporate Governance and Economic Performance in the United States and Germany by Mary O'Sullivan in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- Contests for Corporate Control: Corporate Governance and Economic Performance in the United States and Germany by Mary O'Sullivan in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
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