Exporting the American Model The Postwar Transformation of European Business

Name: Exporting the American Model The Postwar Transformation of European Business
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ISBN: 9780198293170

ISBN-10: 0198293178

ISBN-13: 9780198293170

Edition: 1998

Authors: Marie-Laure Djelic

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Marie-Laure Djelic explores the convergent and divergent trends in the evolution of business systems and organization in Western Europe in the post-war period. She examines in particular the influence of a large-scale, cross-national transfer of the American corporate model, including the Marshall Plan and the involvement of American business in European reconstruction. She focuses on France, West Germany, and Italy, looking in turn at the physical, ownership, organizational, and governance structure of each after 1945. Her core argument is that the model had varying degrees of success in each of those three countries and, in some areas, encountered significant resistance. The book…

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List price: $225.00
Copyright year: 1998
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 9/3/1998
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 324
Size: 6.50" wide x 9.75" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 1.430
Language: English



Introduction



Cross-National Transfer Structural Types



The American Structural Revolution



Stability of European Industries



Cross-National Transfer Conditions, Channels, and Actors



Crisis Inside, Dependence Outside



Actors and Institutional Channels



Cross-National Transfer Mechanisms



Voluntary Imitation



From Coercion to Imitation



From Control to Conversion



National Limits to the Cross-National Transfer Process



The Resistance of European Business



Between All-Out War and Active Participation


Concluding Remarks


Introduction



Cross-National Transfer Structural Types



The American Structural Revolution



Stability of European Industries



Cross-National Transfer Conditions, Channels, and Actors



Crisis Inside, Dependence Outside



Actors and Institutional Channels



Cross-National Transfer Mechanisms



Voluntary Imitation



From Coercion to Imitation



From Control to Conversion



National Limits to the Cross-National Transfer Process



The Resistance of European Business



Between All-Out War and Active Participation


Concluding Remarks