Research Catalog

Title

From predators to icons : exposing the myth of the business hero / Michel Villette and Catherine Vuillermot ; translated from the French by George Holoch ; foreword by John R. Kimberly.

Author

Villette, Michel.

Publication

Ithaca : ILR Press, 2009.

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Details

Additional Authors

Vuillermot, Catherine.

Description

xvi, 249 p. : ill.; 24 cm.

Uniform Title

Portrait de l'homme d'affaires en prédateur. English

Alternative Title

Portrait de l'homme d'affaires en prédateur.

Subjects

• Success in business > Case studies
• Capitalists and financiers > Biography
• Businessmen > Biography

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Contents

Foreword / John R. Kimberly -- Introduction -- Interlude. Jean-Paul Bucher (Flo group) -- Pt. I. The Businessman, an Enigmatic Figure -- 1. The Businessman in the Scholarly Tradition -- Interlude. Sam Walton (Wal-Mart) and the Fournier and Defforey Families (Carrefour) -- 2. Biographies and Numbers to Aid Understanding -- Interlude. Francois Pinault(Pinault-Printemps-Redoute) and Vincent Bollore (Bollore Technologie) -- Pt. II. How (Good) Deals Are Done -- 3. Becoming a Businessman -- Interlude. Ingvar Kamprad (IKEA) and Jim Clark (Silicon Graphics and Netscape) -- 4. The Good Deal: Key Moment in the Accumulation of Capital -- Interlude. Marcel Dassault (Dassault Aviation) -- Pt. III. What about Morality? -- 5. Charm, Promises, and Threats: The Good Deal as a Political Practice -- Interlude. Bernard Arnault (LVMH) -- 6. On the Virtue of Businessmen -- Coda: Claude Bebear (AXA) -- Appendix. Principal Results of the Quantitative Investigation.

ISBN

• 9780801447006 (cloth : alk. paper)
• 0801447003 (cloth : alk. paper)
• 9780801475665 (pbk. : alk. paper)
• 080147566X (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN

2009019899

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries