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Author : Youssef Cassis
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780198296065
The manner in which Britain, Germany and France have conducted business this century is analysed in this comparative study. It focuses on key companies and business elites and their performance at critical times.
Author : Youssef Cassis
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2024-06-30
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:488655538
Author : Volker R. Berghahn
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 387 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2016-05-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9780691171449
While America's relationship with Britain has often been deemed unique, especially during the two world wars when Germany was a common enemy, the American business sector actually had a greater affinity with Germany for most of the twentieth century. American Big Business in Britain and Germany examines the triangular relationship between the American, British, and German business communities and how the special relationship that Britain believed it had with the United States was supplanted by one between America and Germany. Volker Berghahn begins with the pre-1914 period and moves through the 1920s, when American investments supported German reconstruction rather than British industry. The Nazi seizure of power in 1933 led to a reversal in German-American relations, forcing American corporations to consider cutting their losses or collaborating with a regime that was inexorably moving toward war. Although Britain hoped that the wartime economic alliance with the United States would continue after World War II, the American business community reconnected with West Germany to rebuild Europe’s economy. And while Britain thought they had established their special relationship with America once again in the 1980s and 90s, in actuality it was the Germans who, with American help, had acquired an informal economic empire on the European continent. American Big Business in Britain and Germany uncovers the surprising and differing relationships of the American business community with two major European trading partners from 1900 through the twentieth century.
Author : Youssef Cassis,Andrea Colli,Harm Schröter
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2016-07-21
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780192516152
This book originated from the idea that performance is what really matters in business and thus in business history. Yet, surprisingly, the analysis of performances has been neglected by economic and business historians. This book is a first attempt to fill this gap and in doing so provides a totally new approach to European business history. Rather than bringing together national studies, it is based on a single database, measuring performance in eight European countries according to identical criteria. The study spans the entire twentieth century, with particular attention to five benchmark moments: the height of the first globalisation on the eve of the First World War; the late 1920s boom preceding the Great Depression; the European reconstruction of the mid-1950s; the end of 'Golden Age' in the early 1970s; and the height of the second globalisation at the turn of the twenty-first century. The analysis is based on a sample of 1,225 companies, belonging to the three major European economies, Britain, France and Germany; two large south European latecomers, Italy and Spain; two smaller north western countries, Belgium and Sweden, and one small Nordic country, Finland. Performance has been measured using two ratios of profitability: return on equity (ROE) and holding return (HR), thus providing a complementary measure of profitability, the former as seen from the firm's perspective, the latter form the investor's perspective. The book's findings, at times surprising, at once confirm and infirm widely held assumptions regarding business performance - regarding strategy and structure, ownership and control, old and new industries, emerging and advanced economies.
Author : Ivan T. Berend
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 371 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2016-09-22
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781107136427
A revised and updated edition of the leading overview of economic regimes and economic performance in twentieth-century Europe.
Author : Volker Berghahn
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1571819312
German unification evoked ambivalent reactions outside its borders: it revived disquietingmemories of attempts by German big business during the two world wars to build an economic empire in Europe in conjunction with the military and the government bureaucracy. But thereare also high hopes that German finance and industry will serve as the engine of reconstruction in eastern Europe, just as it played this role in the postwar unification of western Europe.
Author : Richard Coopey,Peter Lyth
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2009-08-13
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780191551505
This collection of fresh, incisive scholarship, by some of the leading business historians, critically examines the nature of economic recovery in Britain in recent years. Covering the key issues for business history in this period, the book confronts the traditional literature on conclusions of relative decline, and monocausal, simplistic explanations. It provides an impressive range of studies forming a platform for a new debate on the nature of British business in the 20th century. Themes include productivity, management, research and development, marketing, regional clusters and networks, industrial policy, the use of technology, and gender. Sector studies include newer, post-war hopefuls and successes including: * aerospace, * IT, * retail, * banking, * overseas investment, * the creative industries. The book demonstrates that our understanding of the historic strengths and weaknesses of business in Britain, and the shifting balance between sectors of the economy, has until now been poorly understood, and that British business history needs a fundamental reappraisal.
Author : Volker R. Berghahn,Jeffrey J. Anderson,Reinhard Neebe
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 133 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Big business
ISBN : OCLC:248363487
Author : Christopher J. Schmitz
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 124 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1995-09-28
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0521557712
This is the first available introductory, comparative account of the rise of giant business corporations in America and Europe in the century before WW2. The book discusses the evolution of firms like Ford, Exxon, Unilever and Siemens.
Author : Keetie E. Sluyterman
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2013-07-04
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781134268634
This is the first book to summarise the twentieth century economic history of the Netherlands from a business history perspective. It has a broad historical coverage of Dutch business development including in particular the major multinationals such as Philips, Shell, and Unilever. Although focused on Dutch business it has a strong international flavour.
Author : Eric Bussière,Youssef Cassis,Jean Monnet Professor of European Construction Éric Bussière
Publisher : Oxford University Press on Demand
Page : 382 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780199269495
"This is a comparison between London and Paris as international financial centres since the late nineteenth century. The chapters include both archive-based and synthetic surveys. It also gives insights into: the political economy of Britain and France in the twentieth century, and the history of international financial centres"--Provided by publisher.
Author : Ranald Michie,Philip Williamson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2004-10-21
Category : History
ISBN : 1139453823
The relationship between the British government and the City of London has become central to debates on modern British economic, political and social life. For some the City's financial and commercial interests have exercised a dominant influence over government economic policy, creating a preoccupation with international markets and the strength of sterling which impaired domestic industrial and social well-being. Others have argued that government seriously constricted financial markets, jeopardising Britain's most successful economic sector. This collection of essays was the first book to address these issues over the entire twentieth century. It brings together leading financial and political historians to assess the government-City relationship from several directions and by examination of key episodes. As such, it will be indispensable not just for the study of modern British politics and finance, but also for assessment of the worldwide problem of tensions between national governments and international financial centres.
Author : Michael Stephen Smith
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 600 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Business enterprises
ISBN : 0674019393
Smith explains how France abandoned merchant capitalism for the corporate enterprise that would come to dominate its economy and project influence around the globe. Opposing the view that French economic and business development was crippled by missed opportunities and entrepreneurial failures, he presents a story of considerable achievement.
Author : Youssef Cassis
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Business enterprises
ISBN : OCLC:516191547
Author : Leif Melin,Mattias Nordqvist,Pramodita Sharma
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 697 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2013-11-15
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781446265932
The SAGE Handbook of Family Business captures the conceptual map and state-of-the-art thinking on family business - an area experiencing rapid global growth in research and education since the last three decades. Edited by the leading figures in family business studies, with contributions and editorial board support from the most prominent scholars in the field, this Handbook reflects on the development and current status of family enterprise research in terms of applied theories, methods, topics investigated, and perspectives on the field′s future. The SAGE Handbook of Family Business is divided into following six sections, allowing for ease of navigation while gaining a multi-dimensional perspective and understanding of the field. Part I: Theoretical perspectives in family business studies Part II: Major issues in family business studies Part III: Entrepreneurial and managerial aspects in family business studies Part IV: Behavioral and organizational aspects in family business studies Part V: Methods in use in family business studies Part VI: The future of the field of family business studies By including critical reflections and presenting possible alternative perspectives and theories, this Handbook contributes to the framing of future research on family enterprises around the world. It is an invaluable resource for current and future scholars interested in understanding the unique dynamics of family enterprises under the rubric of entrepreneurship, strategic management, organization theory, accounting, marketing or other related areas.
