History of specific companies / corporate history Books

Book SynopsisA provocative history of how corporate titans in the 1920s used a massive public relations campaign to transform public opinion on big business. In the early twentieth century, as Americans erupted in righteous indignation over the flagrant abuses of big business, utility executives faced an existential crisis. With calls for strict regulation or outright government ownership of utilities, how could streetcar, electricity, and telephone executives thwart municipal ownership, rein in regulation, and secure huge profits? In Courteous Capitalism, Daniel Robert reveals how utility executives answered this question by launching the largest nongovernmental public relations campaign the nation had ever seen. In part, this campaign encouraged managers to compel their clerks to exude courtesy, sunshine, and patience toward customers. Rather than bribe the few, executives would convert the many using a combination of emotional labor and improved customer service. At the same time, executives oTable of ContentsAcknowledgementsIntroduction1. Courteous Capitalism Begins2. Courteous Capitalism Intensifies3. The Architecture of Consent4. Customer Stock Ownership as Corporate Political Strategy5. Making the News6. Subverting CivicsConclusionNotesIndex

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Book SynopsisCharles Coolidge Parlin was considered by many to be the founder of market research. This title provides an intriguing business history that explains how and why Curtis developed its market research division. It examines the cultural and social reasons for the development and use of market research.Trade Review“Ward expertly weaves magazine publishing, advertising, business and marketing, and cultural history together to show that mass communication history does not happen by itself. He keeps readers turning the page. A New Brand of Business is a highly interesting book featuring extensive use of primary sources particularly the Curtis Publishing Company papers and his grasp of history during the years of his study is exceptional."—Patrick S. Washburn, Ohio UniversityTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction 1. A New Era of Business 2. An Unlikely Leader 3. What Was Commercial Research? 4. Winning over the Skeptics 5. Barbarians, Farmers, and Consumers 6. Readers as Consumers 7. Chasing the Consumer, Protecting the Company 8. The Legacy of Commercial Research Epilogue Notes Index

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Book SynopsisA lively account of the brash men who chased their American Dreams all the way to ChinaTrade Review"John Haddad has written a subtle and spirited book, which takes America's first experiences in China as a means to explore the early years of the United States as an independent nation. This is a book about the magic of money and the ingenious ways that American business grandees reacted to the ever-shifting promises and disappointments of an emerging Asian market. It is also a book about religion, diplomacy, financial systems, arms manufacture, families under stress, ship-building, and opium. It is an absorbing tale, with many contemporary echoes." —Jonathan Spence, author of The Search for Modern China "America's First Adventure in China is a well written, succinct, and elegant book. Haddad brings a fresh approach to—and makes a convincing case for his characterization of—the American presence in China. He describes how the Americans were isolated individuals acting pretty much on their own and with nothing in the way of state, military, or other institutional support. Their experience—operating in a fog of ignorance about a world to which they had only the most limited access—is significant, and he explains why the American experience diverged from rather than followed on the British model."—Peter Buck, Senior Lecturer (retired) on the History of Science, Harvard UniversityTable of Contents Acknowledgments A Note on the Spelling of Chinese Words Introduction 1 First Contact: The Voyage of the Empress of China 2 System Men: The Rise of Perkins and Company 3 All for a Cup of Tea: Finding Goods for the Canton Market 4 Beachhead of God: The First Wave of Missionaries 5 Rising on Smoke: Opium and Identity in Canton 6 Formal Ties: The Caleb Cushing Mission 7 Centrifugal Force: The Spread of People, Goods, Capital, and Ideas 8 Heavenly War: Americans and the Taiping Rebellion 9 Cooperation: Burlingame and the Reinvention of Sino-Western Relations Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisIntroduced at the 1876 Centennial Exposition and powered by an historic advertising campaign, Hires Root Beerlaunched 10 years before Coca-Colablazed the trail for development of the American soft drink industry. Its inventor, Charles Elmer Hires, has been described as a tycoon with the soul of a chemist. In addition to creating root beer, Hires, a devoted family man and a pillar of the Quaker community, became a leading importer of botanical commodities, an authority on the vanilla bean. Starting from scratch, he also built one of the world's largest condensed milk companies. Charles E. Hires and the Drink that Wowed a Nation chronicles the humble origin and meteoric business success of this extraordinary entrepreneur. Author Bill Double uses published interviews, correspondence, newspaper reports, magazine articles, financial data, and a small family archive to tell this story of native ingenuity. Here, the rough-hewn capitalism of the gilded age, the evolution of the neighborhood

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Book SynopsisThere’s a pervasive sense of betrayal in areas scarred by mine, mill and factory closures. Steven High’s One Job Town delves into the long history of deindustrialization in the paper-making town of Sturgeon Falls, located on Canada’s resource periphery.Trade Review"One Job Town is simply one of the finest books written about Northern Ontario. It is a model study that the academic community and, more importantly, those living in Northern Ontario will be excited about." -- Michel S. Beaulieu, Lakehead University * University of Toronto Quarterly: Letters in Canada 2018 *Table of ContentsPreface Introduction A. Tentative Beginnings 1. The Industrial Frontier 2. A Town on Trial B. Shopfloor Realities 3. Working Lives 4. Accident Stories 5. Upstairs, Downstairs 6. The Raised Fist C. Decline and Final Closure 7. Managing Decline 8. Recycled Dreams 9. Betrayal 10. Proximity and Distance 11. Salvaging History Conclusion Bibliography

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Book SynopsisThere’s a pervasive sense of betrayal in areas scarred by mine, mill and factory closures. Steven High’s One Job Town delves into the long history of deindustrialization in the paper-making town of Sturgeon Falls, located on Canada’s resource periphery.Trade Review"One Job Town is simply one of the finest books written about Northern Ontario. It is a model study that the academic community and, more importantly, those living in Northern Ontario will be excited about." -- Michel S. Beaulieu, Lakehead University * University of Toronto Quarterly: Letters in Canada 2018 *Table of ContentsPreface Introduction A. Tentative Beginnings 1. The Industrial Frontier 2. A Town on Trial B. Shopfloor Realities 3. Working Lives 4. Accident Stories 5. Upstairs, Downstairs 6. The Raised Fist C. Decline and Final Closure 7. Managing Decline 8. Recycled Dreams 9. Betrayal 10. Proximity and Distance 11. Salvaging History Conclusion Bibliography

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Book SynopsisThis engrossing biography of Kentucky Fried Chicken/KFC founder Harland Sanders tells a uniquely American story of a dirt-poor striver with unlimited ambition who launched one of the world’s most successful brands—and then ended up as a mere symbol for thTrade Review"Table of Contents Acknowledgments Introduction: How to Become an Icon 1. "It Looks Like You'll Never Amount to Anything" 2. The Coming of the Colonel 3. Kentucky Fried Chicken Inc. 4. Barbarians at the Gate 5. Aftermath of the American Dream Notes Index

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Book SynopsisIn this absorbing narrative, Barry E.C. Boothman traces the history of Abitibi Power & Paper Limited alongside the rise and fall of the newsprint industry and the advent of Canadian corporate capitalism. In the first half of the twentieth century, Abitibi was Canada’s biggest manufacturer an apparent success story after the Wall Street crash of 1929 and a company deemed too big to fail but the company eventually ended up at the centre of the longest and most controversial bankruptcy in Canadian history. Moving from the frontier areas of northern Ontario to the heart of the continental economy, Corporate Cataclysm shows how competitive strategies, industrial organization, corporate finance, and law combined with the empire-building dreams of entrepreneurs and the concerns of politicians to generate an economic disaster. It then chronicles the disputes and intense strife that plagued Abitibi’s fourteen-year receivership.Trade Review"Boothman spells out timely lessons for modern business that may be learned from the study of failure; providing a surgical study of the Abitibi company, the public policy objectives of Ontario's political leaders; and the relationship of Canadian legal institutions with modern corporate enterprises." -- Honours and Awards Committee, OHS Fred Landon Award"Corporate Cataclysm is an excellent, deeply researched, and thorough account of the rise, fall and ultimate restructuring of a Canadian behemoth, Abitibi Power & Paper. The reader has a front row seat in the author’s narrative account, as he traces historical events through three tumultuous decades in Canadian history with an historian’s eye for detail and a novelist’s literary flair." -- Virginia Torrie, University of Manitoba * Canadian Business History Association *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction 1. History: Abitibi Power and Paper Ltd. 2. Canada: Pulp and Paper Industry 3. Canada: Corporate Law 4. Ontario: Politics and Governments Conclusion

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Book SynopsisIn the three or four decades before the first world war British industry was subject to increasing foreign competition particularly from America and Germany. Frequent complainets have been made both by contemporaries and by later students of the peiod that British industrialists were slow to meet this challenge. This provides an admirable background for a series of case studies of the major British industries, each one of which has been written by a recognised authority. The chief aim has been to review the main developments in ten industries during the period 1875-1914, paying particular attention to the way in which they were affected by foreign competation, and the measures taken to combat it. As far as possible an attempt has been made in each case to ascertain how progressive British industrialists were, that is to what extent they were willing to innovate or alter their methods to meet the new conditions. Wherever it can be shown that a lack of enterprise was evident, the auth

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Book SynopsisIn Normalized Financial Wrongdoing, Harland Prechel examines how social structural arrangements that extended corporate property rights and increased managerial control opened the door for misconduct and, ultimately, the 2008 financial crisis. Beginning his analysis with the financialization of the home-mortgage market in the 1930s, Prechel shows how pervasive these arrangements had become by the end of the century, when the bank and energy sectors developed political strategies to participate in financial markets. His account adopts a multilevel approach that considers the political and legal landscapes in which corporations are embedded to answer two questions: how did banks and financial firms transition from being providers of capital to financial market actors? Second, how did new organizational structures cause market participants to engage in high-risk activities? After careful historical analysis, Prechel examines how organizational and political-legal arrangements contribute to current record-high income and wealth inequality, and considers societal preconditions for change.Trade Review"This book offers a theoretically sophisticated, empirically rich explanation of how financialization was politically created in the United States beginning in the 1980s, and how it has increased inequality. Prechel takes us inside corporations to see how financial capitalists leveraged control over organizations to enhance their power or government and thereby enrich themselves at the expense of everyone else including other fractions of capital." -- Richard Lachmann * University at Albany, State University of New York *"A must-read for anyone wishing to understand the foundations of contemporary capitalism. It draws on quantitative analysis, in-depth case studies, and trenchant historical analysis to uncover the class conflicts and structural dynamics that have given rise to the modern financial system, which to so many people's dismay has proven prone to periodic crisis." -- Donald Palmer * University of California, Davis *"This important study looks at changes in corporate–state relations and changes inside the corporation to find the origins of corporate malfeasance. As corporations layered up more complex ownership structures, opportunities opened for behavior that precipitated the Great Financial Crisis. Prechel grounds his analysis in larger changes in U.S. society that have contributed to disastrous social inequality." -- Terrence McDonough * National University of Ireland Galway *

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Book SynopsisTenacious patterns of ethnic and economic inequality persist in the rural, largely minority regions of China's north- and southwest. Such inequality is commonly attributed to geography, access to resources, and recent political developments. In Corporate Conquests, C. Patterson Giersch provides a desperately-needed challenge to these conventional understandings by tracing the disempowerment of minority communities to the very beginnings of China's modern development. Focusing on the emergence of private and state corporations in Yunnan Province during the late 1800s and early 1900s, the book reveals how entrepreneurs centralized corporate power even as they expanded their businesses throughout the Southwest and into Tibet, Southeast Asia, and eastern China. Bringing wealth and cosmopolitan lifestyles to their hometowns, the merchant-owners also gained greater access to commodities at the expense of the Southwest's many indigenous minority communities. Meanwhile, new concepts of development shaped the creation of state-run corporations, which further concentrated resources in the hands of outsiders. The book reveals how important new ideas and structures of power, now central to the Communist Party's repertoire of rule and oppression, were forged, not along China's east coast, but along the nation's internal borderlands. It is a must-read for anyone wishing to learn about China's unique state capitalism and its contribution to inequality.Trade Review"An important book. Accounting, management, and business history masquerade as mundane technical fields. But C. Patterson Giersch, historian of borderlands and ethnicity, shows how deceptive this façade can be, tracing the commercial 'networks of exclusion' that helped parcel out Asia's interior between Chinese and British imperialisms. The discoveries in this book are indispensable to our understanding of how modern China as we know it came to be." -- Rian Thum * University of Nottingham *"In Modern China, it is well-known fact that economic development and the concentration of wealth are profoundly uneven, particularly along ethnic and geographic lines. But why? In a bold new work that is at once empirically rich, tenaciously local, and vividly narrated, C. Patterson Giersch charts out the deep, late imperial origins of Chinese economic inequality." -- Thomas S. Mullaney * Stanford University *"[Giersch's] attention to the details of life in the borderlands is impressive, and the arguments about the role of local corporations in forging a path for intensifying central control of the economy and the usefulness of ethnic prejudice in this effort are convincing. Recommended." -- K. E. Stapleton * CHOICE *"In this ground-breaking book, [Giersch] has offered the reader important insights regarding the balance between local control and state directives in the twentieth-century economic development of southwest China." -- James Anderson * H-Asia *"Giersch, a brilliant writer who tells an engaging story about visionary figures, entices readers throughout the book with potential alternatives to disempowered development: What would have happened if indigenous communities were allowed to pursue their own developmental agenda? What could have been different if non-Han elites were more involved in the management of borderlands resources? Giersch encourages readers to boldly imagine how history could have unfolded differently. Tai elite Fang Kesheng ... for example, petitioned in1947for economic cooperation between the Chinese state and indigenous elites. If his proposal were taken more seriously, he might have been able to push back against the'power of private corporations'and the'developmental discourse of subordination'(p.192). Maoheng, once a trading giant in Yunnan, made significant progress in mechanizing textile production before the party-state took over management...and forced Yunnanese trade towns into'agrarian isolation'(p.200), all in the name of economic planning and borderlands development. Ifind the unfortunate turn of events heartrending ... "This well-researched book offers nuanced information and critical analysis about the rise and demise of private corporations in Yunnan and their implications on modern Chinese history. It is an important reading to anyone interested in the politics of economic development and ethnic inequality in Southwest China and beyond." -- Chun-Yi Sun * China Review International *Table of ContentsContents and Abstracts1The Muleteers chapter abstractChapter 1 explains the nineteenth-century origins of private corporations created in key merchant communities in Yunnan Province, China. It focuses on corporate governance, including profit-sharing and bookkeeping practices that allowed Yunnanese entrepreneurs to transform intrafirm kinship and friendship relations into incentive-based ownership-employee relations, thereby centralizing corporate power in the general manager's headquarters. This allowed the firms to expand their reach over vast distances and into Southeast Asia while maintaining relatively disciplined corporate governance. Since Chinese businesses are treated here as historical institutions rather than timeless entities based on idealized Confucian family values, the chapter demonstrates why successful firms were formed by Han Chinese entrepreneurs as well as certain minority ethnic groups. 2Families chapter abstractChapter 2 reveals how merchant communities in Yunnan, China, adapted to the stresses and opportunities of modern corporate life by preparing children for a world in which men and boys spent most of their time away from home. The chapter uses local sources to reveal how, even as kinship was deemphasized within the corporations, merchant communities relied on reconfigured gender norms and kinship institutions to hold together dispersed, mobile families through the writing of genealogies and the erection of lineage temples. Created with corporate profits, the genealogies and temples represented the construction of a new culture of obligations that would ideally force men to return home. Pressure was applied to wives, moreover, to be disciplined household managers, which was difficult because increasing wealth brought the desire to project prestige by building grand houses and consuming conspicuously. 3The Revolutionaries chapter abstractChapter 3 focuses on twentieth-century international businessmen from Yunnan, China, who, though they worked abroad, sought revolutionary change in their hometowns. The chapter begins with Burma-based merchants who participated in the 1911 revolution against the last Chinese dynasty. It then examines merchants who were active in promoting educational change for Chinese children in Burma and used that experience to promote rural reform, especially educational reform, at home. The chapter argues that the reformers were influenced by Chinese nationalism, which fueled their opposition to the British colonial education system because it led their children to assimilate. Concerned that their children were "falling into another race," the reformers developed a curriculum promoting learning in modern academic subjects as well as in Chinese language and nationalism. 4The Excluded chapter abstractChapter 4 examines the expansion of Yunnan trade corporations into the eastern Tibet region known as Kham. Drawing from the idea of translocality, the chapter explains how outside firms came to dominate much of Kham's regional trade, effectively excluding indigenous people from enjoying the benefits of commercialization. To fully understand this history, the trade corporations are placed in a larger political context, revealing how Han nationalists increasingly depicted borderlands minorities as backward and how radical officials such as "the butcher" Zhao Erfeng studied international colonialism as a guide for eradicating indigenous political and economic leadership, to be replaced by state and private corporations. These trends originated the process of modern patterns of ethnic inequality that still plague China today. 5Mining chapter abstractChapter 5 introduces the powerful vision, first articulated in 1876, of mechanizing Yunnan's mining industry by creating state-led corporations. In the 1880s, when the first modern mining corporation was created in Yunnan, it was part of an array of state initiatives to industrialize and modernize China, a story that is familiar. By retelling this story from a borderlands perspective, the chapter demonstrates for the first time how the concerns with industrial development were influenced by changing ideas about ethnicity as well as schemes to transform territorial governance from pluralistic practices of empire, in which indigenous elites were legitimate leaders, to the direct rule of the nation-state in which cultural and ethnic difference were no longer tolerated. In this first fifty years of modern industrialization, the concepts of Chinese development came to be linked to hierarchies of ethnic and racial difference. 6The Technocrat chapter abstractChapter 6 focuses on Miao Yuntai, an official who built pioneering financial and industrial institutions designed to develop Yunnan, China, during the 1930s. Miao started with Gejiu Tin, first incorporated in 1905, making it a successful exporter of refined tin, and then established other successful corporations. Miao's approach to economic development was based on his experiences in the United States and his perception of Yunnan as backward and ethnically diverse, leading him to create innovative state-run corporations that emphasized managerial autonomy, responsiveness to ownership, and the creation of competitive products. Miao was ahead of the national government in both rationalizing and implementing state-run industry in China, as well as in removing control over local resources from local people, making him one of the most important figures in China's developmental history. 7Corporations, the State, and Ethnic Difference chapter abstractChapter 7 examines China's wartime and civil war periods (1937<->1949), and it brings together the book's major stories about private corporations, state-run corporations, and the development of borderlands regions. After the Japanese invasion of China in 1937, it was the Yunnan provincial government that first harnessed private firms for the wartime effort. After the arrival of the National Government in the Southwest, the Yunnanese economic and corporate institutions, built in the 1930s, would be joined by central institutions in complex partnerships that sought greater state control. These were the first efforts by a Chinese state to enhance its power by taking business from private firms. The efforts were part of broader development plans that sought to impose state power over private firms and over borderlands' resources and communities, including the Tai of western Yunnan. The efforts anticipated the extraordinary growth of state power under the Communist regime. Epilogue: Conquest of Corporations chapter abstractThe Epilogue follows the book's main narratives into the 1950s. It explains how the Tai of western Yunnan would gain "autonomy" as they had hoped, only to discover that autonomy under the Communist state meant disempowerment and inequality enforced by government institutions, including state corporations. It further explains how private corporations would first contribute to postwar economic recovery, only to decline as the new state closed markets and then purposefully dismantled the transprovincial networks of communication and organization that had nurtured the corporations for several generations. They were replaced by the bureaucratic management systems of the new government and Communist Party, which were designed for a planned economy that operated largely without markets. The innovative Yunnan state-run firms would become the foundations of the province's planned economy—the foundation of the province's supposedly new era that had actually been poured in the old era.

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Book SynopsisTenacious patterns of ethnic and economic inequality persist in the rural, largely minority regions of China's north- and southwest. Such inequality is commonly attributed to geography, access to resources, and recent political developments. In Corporate Conquests, C. Patterson Giersch provides a desperately-needed challenge to these conventional understandings by tracing the disempowerment of minority communities to the very beginnings of China's modern development. Focusing on the emergence of private and state corporations in Yunnan Province during the late 1800s and early 1900s, the book reveals how entrepreneurs centralized corporate power even as they expanded their businesses throughout the Southwest and into Tibet, Southeast Asia, and eastern China. Bringing wealth and cosmopolitan lifestyles to their hometowns, the merchant-owners also gained greater access to commodities at the expense of the Southwest's many indigenous minority communities. Meanwhile, new concepts of development shaped the creation of state-run corporations, which further concentrated resources in the hands of outsiders. The book reveals how important new ideas and structures of power, now central to the Communist Party's repertoire of rule and oppression, were forged, not along China's east coast, but along the nation's internal borderlands. It is a must-read for anyone wishing to learn about China's unique state capitalism and its contribution to inequality.Trade Review"An important book. Accounting, management, and business history masquerade as mundane technical fields. But C. Patterson Giersch, historian of borderlands and ethnicity, shows how deceptive this façade can be, tracing the commercial 'networks of exclusion' that helped parcel out Asia's interior between Chinese and British imperialisms. The discoveries in this book are indispensable to our understanding of how modern China as we know it came to be." -- Rian Thum * University of Nottingham *"In Modern China, it is well-known fact that economic development and the concentration of wealth are profoundly uneven, particularly along ethnic and geographic lines. But why? In a bold new work that is at once empirically rich, tenaciously local, and vividly narrated, C. Patterson Giersch charts out the deep, late imperial origins of Chinese economic inequality." -- Thomas S. Mullaney * Stanford University *"[Giersch's] attention to the details of life in the borderlands is impressive, and the arguments about the role of local corporations in forging a path for intensifying central control of the economy and the usefulness of ethnic prejudice in this effort are convincing. Recommended." -- K. E. Stapleton * CHOICE *"In this ground-breaking book, [Giersch] has offered the reader important insights regarding the balance between local control and state directives in the twentieth-century economic development of southwest China." -- James Anderson * H-Asia *"Giersch, a brilliant writer who tells an engaging story about visionary figures, entices readers throughout the book with potential alternatives to disempowered development: What would have happened if indigenous communities were allowed to pursue their own developmental agenda? What could have been different if non-Han elites were more involved in the management of borderlands resources? Giersch encourages readers to boldly imagine how history could have unfolded differently. Tai elite Fang Kesheng ... for example, petitioned in1947for economic cooperation between the Chinese state and indigenous elites. If his proposal were taken more seriously, he might have been able to push back against the'power of private corporations'and the'developmental discourse of subordination'(p.192). Maoheng, once a trading giant in Yunnan, made significant progress in mechanizing textile production before the party-state took over management...and forced Yunnanese trade towns into'agrarian isolation'(p.200), all in the name of economic planning and borderlands development. Ifind the unfortunate turn of events heartrending ... "This well-researched book offers nuanced information and critical analysis about the rise and demise of private corporations in Yunnan and their implications on modern Chinese history. It is an important reading to anyone interested in the politics of economic development and ethnic inequality in Southwest China and beyond." -- Chun-Yi Sun * China Review International *Table of ContentsContents and Abstracts1The Muleteers chapter abstractChapter 1 explains the nineteenth-century origins of private corporations created in key merchant communities in Yunnan Province, China. It focuses on corporate governance, including profit-sharing and bookkeeping practices that allowed Yunnanese entrepreneurs to transform intrafirm kinship and friendship relations into incentive-based ownership-employee relations, thereby centralizing corporate power in the general manager's headquarters. This allowed the firms to expand their reach over vast distances and into Southeast Asia while maintaining relatively disciplined corporate governance. Since Chinese businesses are treated here as historical institutions rather than timeless entities based on idealized Confucian family values, the chapter demonstrates why successful firms were formed by Han Chinese entrepreneurs as well as certain minority ethnic groups. 2Families chapter abstractChapter 2 reveals how merchant communities in Yunnan, China, adapted to the stresses and opportunities of modern corporate life by preparing children for a world in which men and boys spent most of their time away from home. The chapter uses local sources to reveal how, even as kinship was deemphasized within the corporations, merchant communities relied on reconfigured gender norms and kinship institutions to hold together dispersed, mobile families through the writing of genealogies and the erection of lineage temples. Created with corporate profits, the genealogies and temples represented the construction of a new culture of obligations that would ideally force men to return home. Pressure was applied to wives, moreover, to be disciplined household managers, which was difficult because increasing wealth brought the desire to project prestige by building grand houses and consuming conspicuously. 3The Revolutionaries chapter abstractChapter 3 focuses on twentieth-century international businessmen from Yunnan, China, who, though they worked abroad, sought revolutionary change in their hometowns. The chapter begins with Burma-based merchants who participated in the 1911 revolution against the last Chinese dynasty. It then examines merchants who were active in promoting educational change for Chinese children in Burma and used that experience to promote rural reform, especially educational reform, at home. The chapter argues that the reformers were influenced by Chinese nationalism, which fueled their opposition to the British colonial education system because it led their children to assimilate. Concerned that their children were "falling into another race," the reformers developed a curriculum promoting learning in modern academic subjects as well as in Chinese language and nationalism. 4The Excluded chapter abstractChapter 4 examines the expansion of Yunnan trade corporations into the eastern Tibet region known as Kham. Drawing from the idea of translocality, the chapter explains how outside firms came to dominate much of Kham's regional trade, effectively excluding indigenous people from enjoying the benefits of commercialization. To fully understand this history, the trade corporations are placed in a larger political context, revealing how Han nationalists increasingly depicted borderlands minorities as backward and how radical officials such as "the butcher" Zhao Erfeng studied international colonialism as a guide for eradicating indigenous political and economic leadership, to be replaced by state and private corporations. These trends originated the process of modern patterns of ethnic inequality that still plague China today. 5Mining chapter abstractChapter 5 introduces the powerful vision, first articulated in 1876, of mechanizing Yunnan's mining industry by creating state-led corporations. In the 1880s, when the first modern mining corporation was created in Yunnan, it was part of an array of state initiatives to industrialize and modernize China, a story that is familiar. By retelling this story from a borderlands perspective, the chapter demonstrates for the first time how the concerns with industrial development were influenced by changing ideas about ethnicity as well as schemes to transform territorial governance from pluralistic practices of empire, in which indigenous elites were legitimate leaders, to the direct rule of the nation-state in which cultural and ethnic difference were no longer tolerated. In this first fifty years of modern industrialization, the concepts of Chinese development came to be linked to hierarchies of ethnic and racial difference. 6The Technocrat chapter abstractChapter 6 focuses on Miao Yuntai, an official who built pioneering financial and industrial institutions designed to develop Yunnan, China, during the 1930s. Miao started with Gejiu Tin, first incorporated in 1905, making it a successful exporter of refined tin, and then established other successful corporations. Miao's approach to economic development was based on his experiences in the United States and his perception of Yunnan as backward and ethnically diverse, leading him to create innovative state-run corporations that emphasized managerial autonomy, responsiveness to ownership, and the creation of competitive products. Miao was ahead of the national government in both rationalizing and implementing state-run industry in China, as well as in removing control over local resources from local people, making him one of the most important figures in China's developmental history. 7Corporations, the State, and Ethnic Difference chapter abstractChapter 7 examines China's wartime and civil war periods (1937<->1949), and it brings together the book's major stories about private corporations, state-run corporations, and the development of borderlands regions. After the Japanese invasion of China in 1937, it was the Yunnan provincial government that first harnessed private firms for the wartime effort. After the arrival of the National Government in the Southwest, the Yunnanese economic and corporate institutions, built in the 1930s, would be joined by central institutions in complex partnerships that sought greater state control. These were the first efforts by a Chinese state to enhance its power by taking business from private firms. The efforts were part of broader development plans that sought to impose state power over private firms and over borderlands' resources and communities, including the Tai of western Yunnan. The efforts anticipated the extraordinary growth of state power under the Communist regime. Epilogue: Conquest of Corporations chapter abstractThe Epilogue follows the book's main narratives into the 1950s. It explains how the Tai of western Yunnan would gain "autonomy" as they had hoped, only to discover that autonomy under the Communist state meant disempowerment and inequality enforced by government institutions, including state corporations. It further explains how private corporations would first contribute to postwar economic recovery, only to decline as the new state closed markets and then purposefully dismantled the transprovincial networks of communication and organization that had nurtured the corporations for several generations. They were replaced by the bureaucratic management systems of the new government and Communist Party, which were designed for a planned economy that operated largely without markets. The innovative Yunnan state-run firms would become the foundations of the province's planned economy—the foundation of the province's supposedly new era that had actually been poured in the old era.

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Book SynopsisIn Normalized Financial Wrongdoing, Harland Prechel examines how social structural arrangements that extended corporate property rights and increased managerial control opened the door for misconduct and, ultimately, the 2008 financial crisis. Beginning his analysis with the financialization of the home-mortgage market in the 1930s, Prechel shows how pervasive these arrangements had become by the end of the century, when the bank and energy sectors developed political strategies to participate in financial markets. His account adopts a multilevel approach that considers the political and legal landscapes in which corporations are embedded to answer two questions: how did banks and financial firms transition from being providers of capital to financial market actors? Second, how did new organizational structures cause market participants to engage in high-risk activities? After careful historical analysis, Prechel examines how organizational and political-legal arrangements contribute to current record-high income and wealth inequality, and considers societal preconditions for change.Trade Review"This book offers a theoretically sophisticated, empirically rich explanation of how financialization was politically created in the United States beginning in the 1980s, and how it has increased inequality. Prechel takes us inside corporations to see how financial capitalists leveraged control over organizations to enhance their power or government and thereby enrich themselves at the expense of everyone else including other fractions of capital." -- Richard Lachmann * University at Albany, State University of New York *"A must-read for anyone wishing to understand the foundations of contemporary capitalism. It draws on quantitative analysis, in-depth case studies, and trenchant historical analysis to uncover the class conflicts and structural dynamics that have given rise to the modern financial system, which to so many people's dismay has proven prone to periodic crisis." -- Donald Palmer * University of California, Davis *"This important study looks at changes in corporate–state relations and changes inside the corporation to find the origins of corporate malfeasance. As corporations layered up more complex ownership structures, opportunities opened for behavior that precipitated the Great Financial Crisis. Prechel grounds his analysis in larger changes in U.S. society that have contributed to disastrous social inequality." -- Terrence McDonough * National University of Ireland Galway *

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Book SynopsisCrown Resorts, the Bond Group, James Hardie, HIH Insurance, Geoffrey Edelsten's Allied Medical Group, 7-Eleven and Rio Tinto, the list goes on…Australia has suffered from the continual sting of business scandals since corporate cowboys like Alan Bond and Christopher Skase wrought so much damage during the 1980s. Since then, hundreds of thousands of Australians have been affected, with many left traumatised when corporations collapse due to gross mismanagement and profits being put before people.Award-winning author Quentin Beresford takes us inside corporate Australia's highest-profile scandals and the factors that drive them — the rise of celebrity CEOs, timid regulators, inept boards, the murky links between big business, governments, banks, media and lobby groups — and explores a path towards higher ethical standards from organisations. It's a wild ride into the heart of corporate Australia.'There have been too many Australian corporate scandals to keep up with in recent years, which makes Rogue Corporations so compelling — Quentin Beresford ties them all together in a powerful narrative.' — Stephen Mayne, journalist, publisher, shareholder activist and founder of Crikey, the online newspaper

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Book SynopsisFor over 130 years, Imperial Oil dominated Canada's oil industry. Their 1947 discovery of crude oil in Leduc, Alberta transformed the industry and the country. But from 1899 onwards, two-thirds of the company was owned by an American giant, making Imperial Oil one of the largest foreign-controlled multinationals in Canada. Imperial Standard is the first full-scale history of Imperial Oil. It illuminates Imperial's longstanding connections to Standard Oil of New Jersey, also known as Exxon Mobil. Although this relationship was often beneficial to Imperial, allowing them access to technology and capital, it also came at a cost, causing Imperial to be assailed as the embodiment of foreign control of Canada's natural resources. Graham D. Taylor draws on an extensive collection of primary sources to explore the complex relationship between the two companies. This groundbreaking history provides unprecedented insight into one of Canada's most influential oil companies as it has grown and evolved with the industry itself.Table of Contents Illustrations Acknowledgements Introduction Prologue Part One: Foundations 1860-19171. Origins 2. Where Empires Collide 3. Resurrection Part Two: Before Leduc 1917-19474. Adventures in the Tropis 5. Cogs in the Wheel 6. The Winning of the West Part Three: After Leduc 1974-1980 7. Golden Age 8. Diversification 9. A More Complex World 10. Northern Visions Epilogue: Since 1980 11. The Rollder Coaster 12. Exxon and Imperial: Ties that Bind 13. A Change in the Climage Conclusion Appendices Notes Bibilography Index

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Book SynopsisThis important book assembles formative articles that demonstrate how business history emerged as a discipline from the interwar years until the present day. The essays, drawn from authors in the United States, Europe, Asia and Latin America, document the remarkable intellectual achievements of the field, as well as exploring the challenges it faced securing a wider impact on other disciplines. The editors provide a wide-ranging and original introduction. The book will appeal to both social scientists and historians interested to learn how the field of business history was shaped.Trade Review‘As the strategy discipline increasingly recognizes the importance of organizational history for strategy - in the form of routines, culture or lock-in - this is a very timely volume. It will remind strategy researchers too of the depth and breadth of business historical writing, going far beyond the usual suspects.’Table of ContentsContents: Acknowledgements Introduction Walter A. Friedman and Geoffrey Jones PART I CREATING A DISCIPLINE 1. N.S.B. Gras (1934), ‘Business History’ 2. Henrietta M. Larson (1947), ‘Business History: Retrospect and Prospect’ 3. Fritz Redlich (1952), ‘The Role of Theory in the Study of Business History’ 4. Alexander Gerschenkron (1953), ‘Social Attitudes, Entrepreneurship, and Economic Development’ 5. James H. Soltow (1955), ‘The Business Use of Business History’ 6. Herman E. Krooss (1958), ‘Economic History and the New Business History’ 7. Arthur M. Johnson (1962), ‘Where Does Business History Go From Here?’ 8. Fritz Redlich (1962), ‘Approaches to Business History’ 9. Arthur H. Cole (1962), ‘What Is Business History?’ 10. Peter L. Payne (1962), ‘The Uses of Business History: A Contribution to the Discussion’ PART II DEBATE AND ALTERNATIVES 11. Alfred D. Chandler, Jr. (1978), ‘Presidential Address, 1978: Business History – A Personal Experience’ 12. Alfred Chandler (1976), ‘Institutional Integration: An Approach to Comparative Studies of the History of Large-Scale Business Enterprise’ 13. Louis Galambos (1966), ‘Business History and the Theory of the Growth of the Firm’ 14. Thomas Cochran (1977), ‘The Sloan Report: American Culture and Business Management’ 15. Harold C. Livesay (1989), ‘Entrepreneurial Dominance in Businesses Large and Small, Past and Present’ 16. Ralph W. Hidy (1970), ‘Business History: Present Status and Future Needs’ 17. Robert D. Cuff (2002), ‘Notes for a Panel on Entrepreneurship in Business History’ 18. Donald Coleman (1987), ‘The Uses and Abuses of Business History’ 19. Takeshi Yuzawa (2009), ‘Recent Trends of Business History in Japan’ 20. María Inés Barbero (2008), ‘Business History in Latin America: A Historiographical Perspective’ 21. Mira Wilkins (1988), ‘Presidential Address: Business History as a Discipline’ PART III BUSINESS HISTORY AND THE SOCIAL SCIENCES 22. T.A.B. Corley (1993), ‘Firms and Markets: Towards a Theory of Business History’ 23. William N. Parker (1993), ‘A “New” Business History? A Commentary on the 1993 Nobel Prize in Economics’ 24. Louis Galambos (1994), ‘U.S. Business History and Recent Developments in Historical social Science in the United States’ 25. Terry Gourvish (1994), ‘The Empirical Emphasis in Business History: Out of Chaos?’ 26. Geoffrey Jones (1994), ‘Business History: Theory and Concepts’ 27. JoAnne Yates (1997), ‘Using Giddens’ Structuration Theory to Inform Business History’ 28. Naomi R. Lamoreaux (2001), ‘Reframing the Past: Thoughts about Business Leadership and Decision Making under Uncertainty’ 29. Richard N. Langlois (2004), ‘Chandler in a Larger Frame: Markets, Transaction Costs, and Organizational Form in History’ 30. Thomas K. McCraw (2006), ‘Schumpeter’s Business Cycles as Business History’ 31. Neil Fligstein (2008), ‘Chandler and the Sociology of Organizations’ 32. Walter A. Friedman and Geoffrey Jones (2011), ‘Business History: Time for Debate’ PART IV BROADENING THE FIELD: BUSINESS HISTORY AS HISTORY 33. Louis Galambos (1992), ‘Presidential Address: What Makes Us Think We Can Put Business Back Into American History?’ 34. David B. Sicilia (1995), ‘Cochran’s Legacy: A Cultural Path Not Taken’ 35. Kenneth Lipartitio (1995), ‘Culture and the Practice of Business History’ 36. Philip Scranton and Roger Horowitz (1997), ‘“The Future of Business History”: An Introduction’ 37. Angel Kwolek-Folland (1994), ‘The African American Financial Industries: Issues of Class, Race and Gender in the early 20th Century’ 38. Robert E. Weems, Jr. (1997), ‘Out of the Shadows: Business Enterprise and African American Historiography’ 39. Kathy Peiss (1998), ‘“Vital Industry” and Women’s Ventures: Conceptualizing Gender in Twentieth Century Business History’ 40. Louis Galambos (2003), ‘Identity and the Boundaries of Business History: An Essay on Consensus and Creativity’ 41. Patrick Fridenson (2004), ‘Business Failure and the Agenda of Business History’ 42. Pamela Walker Laird (2008), ‘Looking Toward the Future: Expanding Connections for Business Historians’

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Book SynopsisThis book provides an authoritative study of interfirm and supplier relationships in leading Japanese industries, which thoroughly disrupts existing cultural stereotypes by pursuing a carefully crafted evolutionary and comparative perspective combined with compelling original research'- Geoffrey Jones, Harvard Business School, USThe goal of this path-breaking volume is to relativize the experience of Japanese industries in terms of both location and time, exploring its similarities and differences with other countries and its unique relationship with the global standard of company performance set by US firms. Yongdo Kim looks beyond organizational principles, overturns stereotypes, and covers a wide range of industries. In particular, this book focuses on the intertwining of the market principle and the organizational principle in interfirm relationships among the steel, machine tool, integrated circuit and liquid-crystal display materials industries, concluding that there is no such thing as 'Japanese uniqueness' in the history of interfirm relationships.This book compares several intermediate product industries within a global context to offer insights into the studies of businesses across the globe. Numerous interviews with key individuals in the Japanese steel, integrated circuit and machine tool industries offer unique and illuminating information. This analysis covers a broad range of firms by examining the relationships within large companies as well as smaller corporations.This fresh and varied analysis is a critical resource for both business practitioners and scholars of business history, business strategy, industrial marketing, product development management, and economic history.Trade Review‘This book provides an authoritative study of interfirm and supplier relationships in leading Japanese industries, which thoroughly disrupts existing cultural stereotypes by pursuing a carefully crafted evolutionary and comparative perspective combined with compelling original research’ -- Geoffrey Jones, Harvard Business School, USTable of ContentsContents: Introduction 1. The Principles of Market and Organization in Interfirm Relationships in the Japanese Steel Industry 2. Interfirm Relationships in the Japanese Machine Tool Industry 3. The Market and Organization in Interfirm Relationships in Japan’s IC Industry 4. The Market and Organizational Principles in the Interfirm Relationships of the Japanese LCD Materials Industry Conclusion Index

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Book SynopsisIn The Multinational Enterprise, Mark Casson - an important thinker in international business for more than 40 years - provides a state-of-the art review of recent developments in the economic theory of the multinational enterprise. He shows how recent developments in theory shed new light on the historical emergence of multinational enterprises, and explains the different forms that multinationality has taken in different industries and different regions of the world.Mark Casson brings together his leading research on internalisation theory as a general theory of the multinational enterprise. He offers cutting-edge analysis across four distinct sections: marketing and brands, supply chain coordination, methodology and the theory of the firm, and risk management. The book also sets out an exciting new research agenda, which explores the future place of the multinational in the evolving 'knowledge economy' and in a politically uncertain world.This book will appeal to doctoral students and faculty in business schools in need of the latest theoretical developments and also those in economics departments that specialise in business and industrial economics.Trade Review'Casson and his co-authors provide a powerful restatement and renewal of the concept of internalization as a general theory of the multinational enterprise. The book expands the boundaries of the theory's application, while confidently asserting its identity in economics rather than strategic management. A particularly compelling component is the innovative use of historical evidence and perspectives on issues such as branding strategies and response to risk.' --Geoffrey Jones, Harvard Business School, USTable of ContentsContents: Preface PART I Introduction and overview 1. The Future of the Multinational Enterprise in historical perspective 2. Internalization theory: an unfinished agenda PART II Marketing and brands 3. Marketing and the multinational: extending internalization theory 4. Imitation, brand protection and the globalization of British business PART III Supply chain coordination 5. Economic analysis of international supply chains: an internalization perspective 6. The economic theory of international business: a supply chain perspective 7. The economic theory of international supply chains: a systems view PART IV Methodology and the theory of the firm 8. Coase and international business: Rethinking the connection 9. The economic theory of the firm as a foundation for international business theory 10. Alan Rugman’s methodology PART V Risk management 11. Foreign direct investment in high-risk environments: a theoretical perspective 12. Foreign direct investment in high-risk environments: an historical perspective Index

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Book SynopsisThe concept of green business originated recently, but the phenomenon has a longer history which offers many lessons for today and the future. This book provides rich new empirical evidence on green business as it examines its variation between industries and nations, and over time. It demonstrates the deep historical origins of endeavors to create for-profit businesses that were more responsible and sustainable, but also how these strategies have faced constraints, trade-offs and challenges of legitimacy. Based on extensive interviews and archives from around the world, the book asks why green business succeeds more in some contexts than others and draws lessons from failure as well as success.This book emphasizes the importance of context for explaining the choices which explain the varieties of green business. Government policies, both local and national, cultural and religious values, and national images, are amongst the contextual factors which are identified. The book's distinctiveness lies in the use of original empirical data and the fact that it considers both successful and unsuccessful cases. An unusually wide geographical scope means that it covers not only the United States and Europe, but also less studied settings, including Chile, Costa Rica, New Zealand and Japan. Scholars and students interested in environmental management; corporate social responsibility; business ethics and trust; and business and environmental history will find this an important and fascinating read.Table of ContentsContents: Preface 1. Varieties of Business Responsibility 2. Business and Waste Management in Europe before 1945 (with Andrew Spadafora) 3. “Power from Sunshine”: The Business of Solar Energy before 1990 4. Financing Sustainability (with Emily Grandjean and Andrew Spadafora) 5. Organic Food and National Image: The Paradox of New Zealand (with Simon Mowatt) 6. Creating the Market for Organic Wine: Sulfites, Certification, and Green Values (with Emily Grandjean) 7. Creating Ecotourism in Costa Rica (with Andrew Spadafora) 8. Alternative Paths of Green Entrepreneurship: Yvon Chouinard, Doug Tompkins and Kristine McDivitt Tompkins (with Ben Gettinger) Postscript Index

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Book SynopsisEmerging from what was a somewhat staid sub-discipline, there is currently a battle for the soul of Management and Organizational History (MOH), at the centre of which is a widespread concern that much recent work has been more about how one should or might do history rather than actually doing historical work. If ever there was a time for a new volume on MOH, this is certainly it. This Handbook affords space to both these perspectives, as well as uncovering unorthodox and unconventional topics and approaches to more familiar territory with an emphasis on new and revisionist viewpoints. MOH researchers, doctoral and other students and instructors working in this sub-discipline will discover cutting-edge work with novel treatments of familiar terrain in the Handbook. Contributors include: A. Barros, F. Bastien, A. Booth, T. Bridgman, K. Bruce, D. Coraiola, N. Cornelius, S. Cummings, G. Durepos, W.M. Foster, A.G. Gillett, M. Maclean, R. Marens, P.G. McLaren, A.J. Mills, J.H. Mills, J. Muldoon, E.S. O Connor, E. Pezet, R. Pistol, C. Quinn-Trank, H.L. Schachter, G. Shaw, K.D. Tennent, S. Wanderley, K.S. Williams, M. Witzel, T. Yu, Y. ZollerTrade Review'Kyle Bruce has succeeded in producing a worthwhile introduction to the tension between management historians who actually do historical work and their postmodern colleagues who write about how one should or might do it. The contributed chapters composing the Handbook make abundantly clear that the practice of history cannot be separated from its theoretical foundations. Regardless of academic persuasion - whether one thinks that all interpretations of the past are invented or, in contrast, believe that there is an objective reality - readers of all stripes will benefit from being exposed to the arguments advanced by adherents of both camps.' --Arthur G. Bedeian, Louisiana State University, USTable of ContentsContents: 1 Introduction to the Handbook of Research on Management and Organizational History: the hotly contested present state of management and organizational history 1 Kyle Bruce PART I CLASSIC FOUNDATIONS 2 Thinking differently about Adam Smith’s legacy for management studies 11 Stephen Cummings and Todd Bridgman 3 The uses of Frederick Winslow Taylor: how management theorists have interpreted scientific management over the years and why 39 Hindy Lauer Schachter 4 Contested paths: a meta-analytic review of the Hawthorne studies’ literature 56 Jeff Muldoon and Yaron Zoller 5 Making the Res Publica: the political basis of management in the US – the works of Joseph Wharton, Mary Parker Follett, and Chester Barnard 80 Ellen S. O’Connor 6 Seebohm Rowntree and the British interwar management movement 101 Mairi Maclean, Gareth Shaw, Alan Booth, Rachel Pistol and Morgen Witzel PART II ALTERNATIVE VOICES 7 From West Point to points west: the French absolutist roots of the American industrial corporation 123 Richard Marens 8 Towards a Zen-informed approach to management and organizational history 146 Tianyuan Yu, Albert J. Mills and Jean Helms Mills 9 Sport and project management: a window into the development of temporary organizations 169 Alex G. Gillett and Kevin D. Tennent 10 Decolonialism and management (geo)history: is the past also a place? 192 Amon Barros and Sérgio Wanderley 11 The commercial practices of the crown and the state: locating British trade with, and ‘commercial imperialism’ in, Africa, in the geopolitics of Europe 212 Nelarine Cornelius and Eric Pezet PART III ABOUT HISTORY 12 Feminist critical historiography: undoing history – a conceptual model 242 Kristin S. Williams 13 Unpacking organizational re-membering 256 William M. Foster, Diego Coraiola, Chris Quinn-Trank and François Bastien 14 Contextualizing the historian: an ANTi-History perspective 275 Gabrielle Durepos, Albert J. Mills and Patricia Genoe McLaren Index 293

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Book SynopsisIn The Multinational Enterprise, Mark Casson - an important thinker in international business for more than 40 years - provides a state-of-the art review of recent developments in the economic theory of the multinational enterprise. He shows how recent developments in theory shed new light on the historical emergence of multinational enterprises, and explains the different forms that multinationality has taken in different industries and different regions of the world.Mark Casson brings together his leading research on internalisation theory as a general theory of the multinational enterprise. He offers cutting-edge analysis across four distinct sections: marketing and brands, supply chain coordination, methodology and the theory of the firm, and risk management. The book also sets out an exciting new research agenda, which explores the future place of the multinational in the evolving 'knowledge economy' and in a politically uncertain world.This book will appeal to doctoral students and faculty in business schools in need of the latest theoretical developments and also those in economics departments that specialise in business and industrial economics.Trade Review'Casson and his co-authors provide a powerful restatement and renewal of the concept of internalization as a general theory of the multinational enterprise. The book expands the boundaries of the theory's application, while confidently asserting its identity in economics rather than strategic management. A particularly compelling component is the innovative use of historical evidence and perspectives on issues such as branding strategies and response to risk.' --Geoffrey Jones, Harvard Business School, USTable of ContentsContents: Preface PART I Introduction and overview 1. The Future of the Multinational Enterprise in historical perspective 2. Internalization theory: an unfinished agenda PART II Marketing and brands 3. Marketing and the multinational: extending internalization theory 4. Imitation, brand protection and the globalization of British business PART III Supply chain coordination 5. Economic analysis of international supply chains: an internalization perspective 6. The economic theory of international business: a supply chain perspective 7. The economic theory of international supply chains: a systems view PART IV Methodology and the theory of the firm 8. Coase and international business: Rethinking the connection 9. The economic theory of the firm as a foundation for international business theory 10. Alan Rugman’s methodology PART V Risk management 11. Foreign direct investment in high-risk environments: a theoretical perspective 12. Foreign direct investment in high-risk environments: an historical perspective Index

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Book SynopsisThe Handbook of Historical Methods for Management is invaluable for researchers seeking to expand their methodological toolkit. Not only does it showcase a variety of interdisciplinary approaches to the study of management, the Handbook also provides both practical guidance and conceptual insights that present an inclusive overview of historical techniques for management. Authored by leading experts in the field, this timely Handbook provides practical examples that explain the different processes involved in historical methods of enquiry. It introduces a wide variety of topics such as archival research, organizational memory, materiality, and ANTi-history, offering insights into the complexity of this broad field. Ultimately, the chapters revitalise historical methods in management and organizational studies through careful, interdisciplinary methodological guidance. This comprehensive Handbook is essential for business, economics and management scholars seeking to clarify their studies. It will additionally be valuable for those in management positions striving to learn more about historical perspectives used to study the field.Trade Review‘This Handbook is a great addition to the wealth of studies showing the importance of historical approaches to management and organization studies. The editors and authors of this volume make it clear that studying organizations means history. They mark a turning point in understanding how organization and historical studies are interlocked. The volume offers a few keys to open a beautiful Pandora’s box.’ -- Paolo Quattrone, Alliance Manchester Business School, UKTable of ContentsContents: 1 Introduction: why historical methods in management? 1 Stephanie Decker, William M. Foster and Elena Giovannoni PART I PERSPECTIVES ON HISTORICAL METHODS: THEORETICAL DISCUSSIONS ABOUT HISTORICAL METHODS FROM DIFFERENT PERSPECTIVES 2 Historical organization studies 17 Charles Harvey and Mairi Maclean 3 Rhetorical history: giving meaning to the past in past and present 34 Christina Lubinski 4 ANTi-History: let’s get critical … critical, I want to get critical! 45 Gabrielle Durepos 5 A narrative of the historic turn in organization studies 63 Michael Rowlinson, Stephanie Decker and John Hassard 6 Researching with records in management and organisation studies: archives, data corpus, and reflexivity 79 Amon Barros 7 On terms: a key to methodological issues in the construction of history 93 Albert J. Mills and Jean Helms Mills PART II HISTORICAL DATA AND SOURCES: ONTOLOGICAL, EPISTEMOLOGICAL AND PRACTICAL WAYS OF CONDUCTING HISTORICAL RESEARCH 8 How to research in an archive 103 Kevin D. Tennent and Alex G. Gillett 9 Perspectives on oral history for historical research 120 Valeria Giacomin 10 Using accounting records as historical data sources 139 Christopher J. Napier 11 Archival research in the digital era 155 Adam Nix, Stephanie Decker, David A. Kirsch and Santhilata Kuppili Venkata 12 Multisensory approaches to researching the past: insights from history and archaeology 172 Hannah Platts 13 Process-tracing historical research methods in management 187 Andrew Smith 14 Historical case studies: richness, rigour and ‘contextualised explanation’ 199 Emily Buchnea PART III HISTORICAL PRACTICES OF ANALYSING DATA AND SOURCES 15 Critical hermeneutics: deriving meaning from historical sources 216 R. Daniel Wadhwani 16 Critical realism in historical research 230 Alistair Mutch 17 Prosopography and microhistory: illuminating historical actors 243 Garry D. Carnegie and Karen M. McBride 18 Insightful empirical knowledge in grounded theory and historical organization studies 262 Trevor Israelsen and J. Robert Mitchell 19 Foucauldian approaches to researching management histories critically 279 Stephen Cummings and Todd Bridgman PART IV HISTORICAL RESEARCH FOR ORGANIZATION AND SOCIETY: EMPIRICAL EXAMPLES OF HISTORICAL METHODS TO INVESTIGATE SPECIFIC THEORETICAL CONSTRUCTS 20 A call for postnational historiography: notes on writing “history from above” 301 Arun Kumar 21 Researching past occurrences: discovering the past through conversational inquiry 312 François Bastien and Diego M. Coraiola 22 The City of London: genealogy of a contemporary heterotopia 326 Nelarine Cornelius and Eric Pezet 23 Exploring organisational identity through historical research methods 342 Elena Giovannoni and Pasquale Ruggiero 24 The past as corporate social responsibility 359 Robert Phillips, Judith Schrempf-Stirling and Christian Stutz 25 Embodied microhistories on the move: materializing microhistories through walking to include the affective memories of everyday life 371 Jeanne Mengis, Fabio James Petani and Claudia Scholz 26 Narrating rhetorical history to present an appearance of organizational authenticity 393 Kai Lamertz 27 The interview and researching collective memory 409 Jukka Rintamäki, Sébastien Mena, William M Foster and Mike Zundel 28 Taming the ‘mythical beast’: revisiting the myths of historical research in international business scholarship 422 Emmanuella Plakoyiannaki, Eriikka Paavilainen-Mäntymäki and Bareerah Hafeez Hoorani Index

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Book SynopsisThe author tells the history of the Freedman's Savings Bank, how it grew much too quickly, why it failed and the impact on Black America. The end of slavery in the United States left thousands of enslaved people with the need to survive the transition to freedom, including food, clothing, shelter, and medical care. They would also need education, money and financial services. In 1865 Congress passed legislation to create the Freedman's Bureau to provide those services. It also created the Freedman's Savings Bank. Large numbers of the formerly enslaved people had been paid for service in the Union Army – the first time many had cash. And they had no safe depository. The Freedman's Bank offered that, expanding quickly and gained millions in deposits – mostly ranging from $5 to $50. But inexperience and corruption doomed it to failure, costing may of the small depositors their savings. Some of the biggest issues facing Black consumers today may be able to trace their roots back to this debacle, from the historical distrust in banks to the racial wealth gap. Why publish now? On the heels of the social justice protests 0f 2020 and the Covid pandemic, some of the persistent and long-lasing problems facing Black Americans bubbled to the top. Black Americans suffered more than White Americans – they got sicker and died more frequently. In addition, they bore the brunt of the job losses economically and business failures. White Americans (and many Black Americans) learned about how vibrant Black communities like Black Wall Street in Tulsa, Oklahoma, were burned to the ground by angry White mobs, destroying generational Black wealth. The racial wealth gap was pushed to the forefront of the debates. Many of those issues in the wealth gap – including the distrust of Banks and the lack of generational wealth in the Black community can be traced back to the collapse Freedman's Savings Bank and the resulting loss of wealth and generational wealth in Black America. This book will put the Freedman's Savings Bank in the conversation with reparations, Baby Bonds and financial literacy.

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Book SynopsisThe idea of a business owned by a family and passed down from generation to generation sits firmly in our cultural imagination. And family businesses are of central importance in both Germany and in the United States. Still, there are significant differences in the two nations, both in terms of corporate and family cultures as well as in terms of the institutional environment, political clout, and the longevity of companies. Varieties of Family Business analyzes the differences and similarities in the development of family businesses in Germany and the United States from the middle of the nineteenth to the beginning of the twenty-first century. This historical long-term study investigates the causes and effects of the different corporate landscapes. It will be valuable for people interested in family-owned business or in the similarities and differences between American and German business expectations.

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Book SynopsisSocial scientists are paying increasing attention to the business and financial elites: There's a great need to understand who these elites are, what they do, and what makes them tick, as individuals but also as a class. By examining elite business schools, the institutions that train and prepare people to assume important leadership and decision-making positions in business, finance and related sectors, we may also learn how the economic elites are made. A key argument in this book is that elite schools are known to create powerful groups in society, offering them the intellectual and analytical means to act as leaders, but, most importantly, the social, moral and aesthetic skills that are deemed necessary to exercise power; in all essential respects elite schools consecrate people. By dominating much of higher education today, and by doing so in a way that creates and reproduces a market-based organization and control of society, elite business schools represent certain interests Trade Review"Mikael Holmqvist has followed up his fascinating ethnography of Djursholm, a residential community where many of Sweden’s economic elite live, with another in-depth study – this time focusing on the Stockholm School of Economics (SSE). Holmqvist examines the critical role of this higher education institution in moulding Sweden’s future business and financial leaders, illustrating in detail the various mechanisms at work in inculcating a particular set of aesthetic, moral and social norms. The book follows the students’ journey from admission, into the student union, the classroom, the curricula content they have access to, the expectations Faculty members have to work within, and finally the long-term associations formed through strong alumni networks. Holmqvist’s final analysis is persuasive and devastating at the same time: that SSE is a servant of power, legitimising business and capitalism through academic consecration."Claire Maxwell Professor of Sociology, University of Copenhagen.Table of Contents1. Education and Consecration of Neoliberal Elites: Introduction 2. Business, Economics, and the Nobel Prize: History and Legacy 3. Admission: Privilege, Values and Practices 4. Consecration, Business Skills and Leadership: The Student Union 5. Teaching Business: The Invisible Hand in Class 6. Affinity: Pedagogics for a Future Elite 7. Academic Freedom and the Business Community 8. Business School Faculty and Neoliberal Thinking 9. Lifelong Social Relationships and Networks: Business School Alumni 10. Elitism and Masculinity: Business Schools and Elite Employers 11. Business Schools and the Consecration of Elites: Conclusions

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Book SynopsisHighly readable, incisive, precise, and even elegant. —San Francisco ChronicleInsightful. —BusinessWeekWal-Mart isn’t just the world’s biggest company, it is probably the world’s most written-about. But no book until this one has managed to penetrate its wall of silence or go beyond the usual polemics to analyze its actual effects on its customers, workers, and suppliers. Drawing on unprecedented interviews with former Wal-Mart executives and a wealth of staggering data (e.g., Americans spend $36 million an hour at Wal-Mart stores, and in 2004 its growth alone was bigger than the total revenue of 469 of the Fortune 500), The Wal-Mart Effect is an intimate look at a business that is dramatically reshaping our lives.

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