ABSTRACT
This major new textbook on business history brings together the expertise of two internationally renowned authors to provide a thorough overview of the developments in business – from just before the industrial revolution right up to the present day.
Business History is global in scope and looks at the major players – Europe, the US and Japan – as well as emerging economies, such as China and India. Focusing mainly on ‘big business‘, Amatori and Colli critically analyze ‘the firm‘ and its interaction with the evolution of economic, technological and political systems at the micro and macro levels.
This up-to-date textbook is an exceptional resource for students on economic and business history courses, as well as for practitioners interested in broadening their understanding of business.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part I|28 pages
Relevant issues
chapter 1|7 pages
Introduction
chapter 2|10 pages
Business history and theories of the firm
chapter 3|9 pages
Entrepreneurship
part II|30 pages
The company between the preindustrial era and the First Industrial Revolution
chapter 4|9 pages
Preindustrial manufacturing
chapter 5|11 pages
Enterprises and entrepreneurs of the First Industrial Revolution
chapter 6|8 pages
Technology, society, and the factory system
part III|40 pages
The birth and consolidation of big business
chapter 7|10 pages
Infrastructures
chapter 8|12 pages
Technology and organization
chapter 9|16 pages
National patterns
part IV|34 pages
State and market in the period between the two world wars
chapter 10|11 pages
The multidivisional corporation and managerial capitalism
chapter 12|10 pages
At the origins of the Japanese miracle
part V|74 pages
From the postwar years to the fall of the Wall
chapter 13|13 pages
From World War II to the Third Industrial Revolution
chapter 14|13 pages
American hegemony and its aftermath
chapter 17|13 pages
Hybrid Europe
part VI|49 pages
The globalization of today
