Research Catalog

Title

Big business and the wealth of nations / edited by Alfred D. Chandler, Jr., Franco Amatori, Takashi Hikino.

Publication

Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1997.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Chandler, Alfred D. (Alfred Dupont), 1918-2007.
• Amatori, Franco.
• Hikino, Takashi.

Description

xii, 580 p. : ill.; 24 cm.

Uniform Title

Global enterprise.

Subjects

• National income > History > Case studies
• Big business > History > Case studies

Note

• Slightly rev. ed. of: Global enterprise. 1997.

Bibliography (note)

• 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 enterprse 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.

Call Number

JBE 97-1898

ISBN

0521481236 (hardback)

LCCN

97003470

OCLC

36225181

Title

Big business and the wealth of nations / edited by Alfred D. Chandler, Jr., Franco Amatori, Takashi Hikino.

Imprint

Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1997.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Added Author

Chandler, Alfred D. (Alfred Dupont), 1918-2007.

Amatori, Franco.

Hikino, Takashi.

Added Title

Global enterprise.

Research Call Number

JBE 97-1898