| Description |
xii, 580 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Note |
Rev. versions of essays prepared for the Eleventh International Economic History Congress at Milan in 1994. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and indexes. |
| Contents |
Historical and comparative contours of big business / Alfred D. Chandler Jr., Franco Amatori, and Takashi Hikino -- Large industrial enterprise and the dynamics of modern economic growth / Alfred D. Chandler Jr., and Takashi Hikino -- United States : engines of economic growth in the capital-intensive and knowledge-intensive industries / Alfred D. Chandler Jr. -- Great Britain : big business, management, and competitiveness in twentieth-century Britain / Geoffrey Jones -- Germany : competition abroad -- cooperation at home, 1870-1900 / Ulrich Wengenroth -- Small European nations : cooperative capitalism in the twentieth century / Harm G. Schroter -- France : the relatively slow development of big business in the twentieth century / Patrick Fridenson -- Italy : the tormented rise of organizational capabilities between government and families / Franco Amatori -- Spain : big manufacturing firms between state and market, 1917-1990 / Albert Carreras and Xavier Tafunell -- Japan : increasing organizational capabilites of large industrial enterprises, 1880's-1980's / Hidemasa Morikawa -- South Korea : enterprising groups and entrepreneurial government / Alice H. Amsden -- Argentina : industrial growth and enterprise organization, 1880's-1980's / Maria Ines Barbero -- USSR : large enterprises in the USSR -- the functional disorder / Andrei Yu. Yudanov -- Czechoslovakia : the halting pace to scope and scale / Alice Teichova -- Organizational competences, firm size and the wealth of nations : some comments from a comparative perspective / Giovanni Dosi -- Managerial control, capital markets, and the wealth of nations / Takashi Hikino -- Big business and skill formation in the wealthiest nations : the organizational revolution in the twentieth century / William Lazonick and Mary O'Sullivan -- Government, big business and the wealth of nations / Thomas K. McCraw -- Constructing big business : the cultural concept of the firm / Jeffrey R. Fear. |
| Summary |
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. |
| Subject |
Big business -- History -- Case studies.
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National income -- History -- Case studies.
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Big business. (OCoLC)fst00831592
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National income. (OCoLC)fst01033577
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Grootbedrijf.
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Internationale economische ontwikkeling.
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Großbetrieb.
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Wirtschaftswachstum.
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Kongress.
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Wirtschaftsentwicklung.
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Geschichte.
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Aufsatzsammlung.
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Geschichte. (DE-588)4020517-4
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Großbetrieb. (DE-588)4022149-0
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Wirtschaftsentwicklung. (DE-588)4066438-7
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Wirtschaftswachstum. (DE-588)4066527-6
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| Chronological Term |
Geschichte 1870-1997
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Geschichte 1870-1997.
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| Genre/Form |
Case studies. (OCoLC)fst01423765
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History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
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| Added Author |
Chandler, Alfred D. (Alfred Dupont), 1918-2007.
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Amatori, Franco.
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Hikino, Takashi.
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International Economic History Congress (11th : 1994 : Milan, Italy)
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| ISBN |
0521481236 (hardback) |
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9780521481236 (hardback) |
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0521663474 (pbk.) |
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9780521663472 (pbk.) |
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