Big Business and the Wealth of Nations

Name: Big Business and the Wealth of Nations
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ISBN: 9780521663472

ISBN-10: 0521663474

ISBN-13: 9780521663472

Edition: 1999

Authors: Alfred D. Chandler, Franco Amatori, Takashi Hikino

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Large industrial enterprises play a vital role in developing new technologies and commercialising new products in all of the major countries. How such firms emerged and evolved constitutes a significant part of 20th-century world history.

Book details

List price: $64.99
Copyright year: 1999
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 10/28/1999
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 612
Size: 6.25" wide x 9.00" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.738
Language: English



Preface



Overview



Historical and comparative contours of big business




The large industrial enterprise and the dynamics of modern economic growth




National Experiences of Big Business



Prime Drivers in North America and Western Europe



The United States: engines of economic growth in the capital-intensive and knowledge-intensive industries




Great Britain: big business, management, and competitiveness in the twentieth century




Germany: competition abroad, cooperation at home, 1870-1990 Ulrich Wegenroth



Small European nations: cooperative capitalism in the twentieth century Harm G. Schrï¿½ter



Followers in Western Europe



France: the relatively slow development of big business in the twentieth century




Italy: the tormented rise of organizational capabilities between government and families




Spain: big manufacturing firms between state and market, 1917-1990 Xavier Tafunell



Late Industrializers in East Asia and South America



Japan: increasing organizational capabilities of large industrial enterprises, 1880s-1980s




South Korea: enterprising groups and entrepreneurial government




Argentina: industrial growth and enterprise organization, 1880s-1980s Marï¿½a Inï¿½s Barbero



Centrally-Planned Economies in Eastern Europe



USSR: large enterprises




Czechoslovakia: the halting pace to scope and scale




Economic and Institutional Environment of Big Business



Organizational competences, size, and the wealth of nations: some comments from a comparative perspective




Big business and skill formation in the wealthiest nations: the organizational revolution in the twentieth century




Government, big business, and the wealth of nations




Constructing big business: the cultural concept of the firm