The latest volume in the Fuji Business History series explores the role of the entrepreneur and small business in the economies of the East and West. The volume presents contributions from well-known international scholars, including Michael Cusumano on Bill Gates and High-Tech Entrepreneurship; Martin Kenney on Venture Capital in Silicon Valley; and Mary Rose on issues of succession in entrepreneurial firms.
Entrepreneurship and Organization
and over one million other books are available for Amazon Kindle.
Learn more
FREE Two-Day Shipping for students on millions of items. Learn more |
| |||||||||||||||
Book Description
Special Offers and Product Promotions
- Buy $50 in qualifying physical textbooks, get $5 in Amazon MP3 Credit. Here's how (restrictions apply)
Editorial Reviews
Review
This collection of papers ... all deal with twentieth-century business history and will be valuable for students of management and business who are looking for case study material. The majority treat firms in modern and major industries, not least electronics and computers, motor cars, and retailing. Several deal with significant business phenomena - hive-off, R&D, succession. The editor's introduction affords a most useful literature survey. To this extent they will satisfy the business school cry for relevance. Business History
About the Author
Professor Seiichiro Yonekura is Director of the Institute of Innovation Research at Hitotsubashi University. Michael J. Lynskey is a doctoral candidate in Management at the Said Business School, currently attached to the Institute of Innovation Research, Hitotsubashi University. His D.Phil. research theme is the biotechnology industry in Japan.
Product Details
Would you like to update product info or give feedback on images?
|
Customer Reviews
|
There are no customer reviews yet.
|
|||
|
Video reviews
|
Inside This Book
(learn more)
First Sentence:
Radio appeared rather suddenly on the telecommunications scene, with a very short period elapsing between the first successful experiments (1895-6) and the beginning of its commercial exploitation. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
tonya wholesalers, insider succession, personal interview with authors, large retail firms, divisional system, video game business, department store companies, entrepreneurship theory, multidivisional structure, entrepreneurial function, mass retailers, building licences, manager magazin Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, Leonhard Tietz, Bill Gates, Second World War, Rudolph Karstadt, Civil War, Silicon Valley, Bridge Communications, Chairman Lee, Microsoft Corporation, Oxford University Press, Saison Business Group, Clark Collection, First World War, Free Press, Koji Kobayashi, Mike Maples, Paper Clippings Collection, Swiss Economic Archives, Belknap Press, Schweizerisches Wirtschaftsarchiv Basel, Acton Society Trust, Brain Trust, British Industries, General Motors New!
Books on Related Topics | Concordance | Text Stats Browse Sample Pages:
Front Cover | Table of Contents | First Pages | Index | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
Radio appeared rather suddenly on the telecommunications scene, with a very short period elapsing between the first successful experiments (1895-6) and the beginning of its commercial exploitation. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
tonya wholesalers, insider succession, personal interview with authors, large retail firms, divisional system, video game business, department store companies, entrepreneurship theory, multidivisional structure, entrepreneurial function, mass retailers, building licences, manager magazin Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, Leonhard Tietz, Bill Gates, Second World War, Rudolph Karstadt, Civil War, Silicon Valley, Bridge Communications, Chairman Lee, Microsoft Corporation, Oxford University Press, Saison Business Group, Clark Collection, First World War, Free Press, Koji Kobayashi, Mike Maples, Paper Clippings Collection, Swiss Economic Archives, Belknap Press, Schweizerisches Wirtschaftsarchiv Basel, Acton Society Trust, Brain Trust, British Industries, General Motors New!
Books on Related Topics | Concordance | Text Stats Browse Sample Pages:
Front Cover | Table of Contents | First Pages | Index | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
Citations (learn more)
This book cites 20
books:
See all 20 books this book cites
- Business Enterprise in Modern Britain: From the Eighteenth to the Twentieth Century (Comparative and International Business : Modern Histories) by Maurice W. Kirby in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- Entrepreneurship and Business Culture (Studies in the Economics of Trust/Mark Casson, Vol 1) by Mark Casson in Front Matter, and Back Matter
- The Wealth of Nations: Representative Selections by Adam Smith in Front Matter (1), and Front Matter (2)
- Scale and Scope: The Dynamics of Industrial Capitalism by Alfred D. Chandler Jr. on page 117
- Computers and Communications: A Vision of C&C by Koji Kobayashi on page 347
See all 20 books this book cites
Books on Related Topics
(learn more)
|
Tag this product(What's this?)Think of a tag as a keyword or label you consider is strongly related to this product.
Tags will help all customers organize and find favorite items. |
Customer Discussions
|
This product's forum
Active discussions in related forums
Search Customer Discussions
|
Related forums
|
Listmania!
So You'd Like to...
Look for Similar Items by Category
- Books > Business & Investing > Economics
- Books > Business & Investing > Management & Leadership > Industrial
- Books > Business & Investing > Popular Economics
- Books > Business & Investing > Small Business & Entrepreneurship > Entrepreneurship
- Books > New & Used Textbooks > Business & Finance > Economics
- Books > New & Used Textbooks > Business & Finance > Entrepreneurship
