| Description |
xii, 580 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Note |
Rev. versions of essays prepared for the Eleventh International Economic History Congress at Milan in 1994. |
| Bibliography |
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. |
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Big business -- History -- Case studies.
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National income -- History -- Case studies.
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| Alternate Author |
Chandler, Alfred Dupont.
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Amatori, Franco.
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Hikino, Takashi.
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International Economic History Congress (11th : 1994 : Milan, Italy)
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