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Foundations of Scenario Planning
The Story of Pierre Wack
Häftad, 2018
772 kr
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Pierre Wack was head of scenario planning at Royal Dutch / Shell Oil in London for just over ten years. He died in 1997. He was a pioneer of what we know today as scenario planning – an alternative and complement to strategic planning. Scenarios explore a variety of possible futures for examining …
Business, Ethics and Institutions
The Evolution of Turkish Capitalism in Global Perspectives
Av Asli M. Colpan, Geoffrey Jones
Inbunden, 2019
2585 kr
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This book is the first systematic scholarly study on the business history of Turkey from the nineteenth century until the present. It aims to place the distinctive characteristics of capitalism in Turkey within a global and comparative perspective, dealing with three related issues. First, it …
World Market Transformation
Inside the German Fur Capital Leipzig 1870 and 1939
Häftad, 2019
742 kr
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To the surprise of many, regionally embedded clusters of small to medium sized businesses have continued to exist in spite of industrialisation and mass production. While scholars have discovered that the advantages of embeddedness in terms of industrialisation were situated in interfirm …
Postcolonial Transition and Global Business History
British Multinational Companies in Ghana and Nigeria
Inbunden, 2022
2132 kr
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British multinationals faced unprecedented challenges to their organizational legitimacy in the middle of the twentieth century as the European colonial empires were dismantled and institutional transformations changed colonial relationships in Africa and other parts of the world. This book …
Gendered Capitalism
Sewing Machines and Multinational Business in Spain and Mexico, 1850-1940
Inbunden, 2021
2510 kr
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Gendered Capitalism: Sewing Machines and Multinational Business in Spain and Mexico, 1850–1940 is a history of the gendered corporation, a study that examines how ideas and ideals about domesticity and the cultures of sewing and embroidery, being gender-specific, shaped the US-headquartered Singer …
Emergence of Corporate Governance
People, Power and Performance
Inbunden, 2021
2585 kr
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Corporate governance is not just about models of best practice organisation or prescriptions following laws or social conventions. Corporate governance is also about persons of power seeking performance, and they do so in ways that transcend structures and pre-conceived notions of the structural …
Industrial Clusters
Knowledge, Innovation Systems and Sustainability in the UK
Av John F. Wilson, Chris Corker m. fl.
Inbunden, 2022
2825 kr
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Industrial Clusters shows the latest state of knowledge on the topic of industrial clusters, with a particular focus on clustering in the UK, bringing together a chronological coverage of the phenomenon. This set of original essays by a group of leading business and industrial historians offers …
Pervasive Powers
The Politics of Corporate Authority
Av Sara Angeli Aguiton, Marc-Olivier Déplaude m. fl.
Inbunden, 2021
2585 kr
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In an era of systemic crisis and of global critiques of the unsustainable perpetuation of capitalism, Pervasive Powers: The Politics of Corporate Authority critically questions the conditions for the maintenance and expansion of corporate power. The book explores empirical case studies in the …
Entrepreneurship in the Age of Empire
Colonialism, Collaboration and Exploitation
Av Sarah Dietz
Inbunden, 2020
2585 kr
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Exploring the interplay of politics and commerce in one of the most dynamic periods of British history, this book traces the fortunes of the India and Eastern Trading Company Limited, established in 1906 to finance a jute plantation in Assam, north-east India. In a watershed period for commercial …
Entrepreneurship in the Age of Empire
Colonialism, Collaboration and Exploitation
Av Sarah Dietz
Häftad, 2022
712 kr
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Exploring the interplay of politics and commerce in one of the most dynamic periods of British history, this book traces the fortunes of the India and Eastern Trading Company Limited, established in 1906 to finance a jute plantation in Assam, north-east India. In a watershed period for commercial …
Pervasive Powers
The Politics of Corporate Authority
Av Sara Angeli Aguiton, Marc-Olivier Déplaude m. fl.
Häftad, 2023
691 kr
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In an era of systemic crisis and of global critiques of the unsustainable perpetuation of capitalism, Pervasive Powers: The Politics of Corporate Authority critically questions the conditions for the maintenance and expansion of corporate power. The book explores empirical case studies in the …
History of Business Cartels
International Politics, National Policies and Anti-Competitive Behaviour
Av Martin Shanahan, Susanna Fellman
Inbunden, 2022
2825 kr
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International cartels are powerful organizations that impact our everyday lives, although they are little known. This book presents 15 historical case studies of international cartels that include agricultural and mineral commodities, the machinery industry, telephone equipment, whiskey and cement. …
History of Business Cartels
International Politics, National Policies and Anti-Competitive Behaviour
Av Martin Shanahan, Susanna Fellman
Häftad, 2024
712 kr
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International cartels are powerful organizations that impact our everyday lives, although they are little known. This book presents 15 historical case studies of international cartels that include agricultural and mineral commodities, the machinery industry, telephone equipment, whiskey and cement. …
Multinational Enterprise, Political Risk and Organisational Change
From Total War to Cold War
Av Neil Forbes, Takafumi Kurosawa m. fl.
Häftad, 2020
816 kr
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Hitherto, the organization of international business has been studied mostly from a managerial point of view or by examining the relationship between firms and the economy. Yet, the development of the modern, multinational firm - the most important type of business organisation - has been strongly …
Evolution of Business
Interpretative Theory, History and Firm Growth
Häftad, 2020
712 kr
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Firm growth. This concept has interested researchers for generations. Economists have sought to predict and measure firm growth using a host of different variables, while strategic management scholars depict growth as the result of clever analyses and rational resource exploitation. …
Multinational Business and Transnational Regions
A Transnational Business History of Energy Transition in the Rhine Region, 1945-1973
Av Marten Boon
Häftad, 2020
712 kr
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Multinational Enterprise and Transnational Regions offers an innovative approach to the study of the history of transnational economic regions. The Rhine valley is such a region comprising the cities and areas along the Rhine river and its tributaries. The transition from coal to oil that unfolded …
Family Dynasties
The Evolution of Global Business in Scandinavia
Av Hans Sjögren
Häftad, 2020
712 kr
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A remarkable fifteen Nordic family businesses are among the 500 biggest companies in the world and the Nordic countries have more dynasties than most others per capita and in GDP terms. The willingness, often reluctant, of both the political system and labour movement to accept asset accumulation …
Commodity Trading, Globalization and the Colonial World
Spinning the Web of the Global Market
Häftad, 2020
712 kr
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Commodity Trading, Globalization and the Colonial World: Spinning the Web of the Global Market provides a new perspective on economic globalization in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Instead of understanding the emergence of global markets as a mere result of supply and demand or as the …
Gendered Capitalism
Sewing Machines and Multinational Business in Spain and Mexico, 1850-1940
Häftad, 2021
633 kr
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Gendered Capitalism: Sewing Machines and Multinational Business in Spain and Mexico, 1850–1940 is a history of the gendered corporation, a study that examines how ideas and ideals about domesticity and the cultures of sewing and embroidery, being gender-specific, shaped the US-headquartered Singer …
Business, Ethics and Institutions
The Evolution of Turkish Capitalism in Global Perspectives
Av Asli M. Colpan, Geoffrey Jones
Häftad, 2021
742 kr
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This book is the first systematic scholarly study on the business history of Turkey from the nineteenth century until the present. It aims to place the distinctive characteristics of capitalism in Turkey within a global and comparative perspective, dealing with three related issues. First, it …
Age of Entrepreneurship
Business Proprietors, Self-employment and Corporations Since 1851
Av Robert Bennett, Harry Smith m. fl.
Häftad, 2021
720 kr
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This landmark research volume provides the first detailed history of entrepreneurship in Britain from the nineteenth century to the present. Using a remarkable new database of more than nine million entrepreneurs, it gives new understanding to the development of Britain as the world’s ‘first …
Co-operation and Globalisation
The British Co-operative Wholesales, the Co-operative Group and the World since 1863
Häftad, 2021
712 kr
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Globalisation is associated with capitalist multinationals dedicated to the enrichment of wealthy, corporate shareholders. However, less well known is that the English and Scottish Co-operative Wholesale Societies, owned by the growing number of local co-operative societies across the country, were …
Making Managers in Canada, 1945-1995
Companies, Community Colleges, and Universities
Häftad, 2020
712 kr
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Management education and training was a key influence on Canadian capital and labour in the post-World War II decades, however it has been the subject of comparatively little academic inquiry. In many ways, historians have frequently learned about management behavior in unionized workplaces by …
Industries and Global Competition
A History of Business Beyond Borders
Av Bram Bouwens, Pierre-Yves Donzé m. fl.
Häftad, 2019
712 kr
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Changes in the dynamics of economic activities since the last decades of the 20th century have yielded major changes in the composition of industries and the division of labor and production across different regions of the world. Despite these shifts in the global economy, some industries have …
Management, Education and Competitiveness
Europe, Japan and the United States
Inbunden, 1996
2825 kr
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Globally two processes are striking about modern management education. Firstly, management education is changing rapidly to meet new challenges from business and governments and to improve competitiveness. Secondly, management education has become one of the fastest growing areas in higher …
Dynamics of the Modern Brewing Industry
Av Terry Gourvish, Richard G. Wilson
Inbunden, 1998
2825 kr
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For the past two centuries, brewing has been a constantly innovative and evolving industry, subject to changes in technology, taste and industrial structure. This ground-breaking book is one of the first to examine the industry from the perspectives of economic and business history. It combines …
Development of Accounting in an International Context
A Festschrift in Honour of R. H. Parker
Av T.E. Cooke, C.W. Nobes
Inbunden, 1997
3155 kr
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This volume brings together contributions from the world's most renowned scholars in accounting and celebrates the academic achievements of Bob Parker. Reflecting his multi-faceated contribution to the history of accountancy, the volume studies the development of accounting in an international …
Religion, Business and Wealth in Modern Britain
Av David Jeremy
Inbunden, 1998
2743 kr
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The relationship of economics, capitalism and wealth to the ethics and morality of religion has intrigued and challenged policymakers, pressure groups, theologians, sociologists, economists and historians for centuries. Here David Jeremy addresses these questions in the context of modern Britain. …
Americanisation of European Business
Av Matthias Kipping, Ove Bjarnar
Inbunden, 1998
2825 kr
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This book examines the mechanisms and channels through which American managerial know-how and US management models were transferred to Europe after 1945, as well as the actual influence on European industries, companies and regions in the 1950s and 1960s. It explores the role of the European …
Multinational Traders
Inbunden, 1998
3063 kr
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This book is a detailed account of the evolution and theory of multinational trading companies. The book features contributions from an international selection of US, European and Asian economists and business historians which demonstrate the importance of trading companies in trade and investment …
