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Author: David S. Landes Publisher: Penguin ISBN: 1101650907 Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 499
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From the author of the New York Times bestseller The Wealth and Poverty of Nations, a fascinating look at the crossroads of kin and coin David S. Landes has earned a reputation as a brilliant writer and iconoclast among economic historians. In his latest acclaimed work, he takes a revealing look at the quality that distinguishes a third of today's Fortune 500 companies: family ownership. From the banking fortunes of Rothschild and Morgan to the automobile empires of Ford and Toyota, Landes explores thirteen different dynasties, revealing what lay behind their successes-and how extravagance, bad behavior, and poor enterprise brought some of them to their knees. A colorful history that is full of surprising conclusions, Dynasties is an engrossing mix of ambition, eccentricity, and wealth.
Author: David S. Landes Publisher: Penguin ISBN: 1101650907 Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 499
Book Description
From the author of the New York Times bestseller The Wealth and Poverty of Nations, a fascinating look at the crossroads of kin and coin David S. Landes has earned a reputation as a brilliant writer and iconoclast among economic historians. In his latest acclaimed work, he takes a revealing look at the quality that distinguishes a third of today's Fortune 500 companies: family ownership. From the banking fortunes of Rothschild and Morgan to the automobile empires of Ford and Toyota, Landes explores thirteen different dynasties, revealing what lay behind their successes-and how extravagance, bad behavior, and poor enterprise brought some of them to their knees. A colorful history that is full of surprising conclusions, Dynasties is an engrossing mix of ambition, eccentricity, and wealth.
Author: Jean-Louis Loubet Publisher: Librairie Droz ISBN: 9782600003179 Category : Automobile industry and trade Languages : fr Pages : 460
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Avec les premières études industrielles présentées dans cet ouvrage, nous entrons dans le monde des artisans inventeurs de la Belle Epoque, période de primauté de la France dans le secteur de l'automobile, avec déjà un début d'internationalisation et les premières défaillances. Le tableau suivant est celui des Trente glorieuses, apogée de l'automobile française, avec toutefois des parcours très différents pour Renault, Peugeot ou Citroën et une forte concurrence étrangère installée en France (Ford et Simca), dans une période marquée aussi d'incertitudes en matière de stratégies. Tout au long de cet ouvrage, défilent les grands noms de l'automobile, alternant périodes fastes et moins fastes, mais ces études anciennes font aussi revivre des constructeurs plus ou moins oubliés comme Darracq, Mors, Brouhot, Delahaye, Latil, Mathis...La collection "Archives économiques du Crédit lyonnais" vise à mettre à disposition d'un public s'intéressant à l'histoire économique - universitaires, étudiants, hommes d'entreprise, simples amateurs - des études anciennes réalisées par le service des Etudes financières du Crédit lyonnais ; ces études portent sur des secteurs d'activité, sur des entreprises ou sur la situation économique de différentes régions du monde. Le lecteur garde le plaisir du contact direct avec des documents mis en perspective par un historien spécialiste du secteur. Pages de début Avant-propos Introduction générale Avertissement Première partie. La belle époque, France : berceau de l'automobile 1.a. L'émergence de l'automobile 1.b. Quelles valeurs sûres ? 1.c. Une british connection ? 1.d. Chronique d'une mort annoncée Deuxième partie. Les années vingt et le modèle Américain 2.a. Redoutable Amérique 2.b. France : difficile sortie de guerre 2.c. Fordisme à la Française 2.d. Quelle place pour les petits constructeurs ? Troisième partie. Le temps des crises et des remises en cause 3.a. Une crise mondiale 3.b. La survie des petits constructeurs 3.c. Les malheurs des grands 3.d. De la crise économique à la crise morale Quatrième partie. Les trente glorieuses ou l'apogée de l'automobile 4.a. Les hésitations de la reconstruction 4.b. L'irrésistible ascension de la régie Renault 4.c. Les « constructeurs traditionnels » 4.d. Des Américains à Paris Iconographie Bibliographie sélective Index despersonnes, sociétés et lieux Pages de fin.
Author: Frank Schipper Publisher: Amsterdam University Press ISBN: 9052603081 Category : Technology & Engineering Languages : en Pages : 321
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Today we can hardly imagine life in Europe without roads and theautomobiles that move people and goods around. In fact, the vastmajority of movement in Europe takes place on the road. Travelersuse the car to explore parts of the continent on their holidays,and goods travel large distances to reach consumers. Indeed, thetwentieth century has deservedly been characteried as the centuryof the car. The situation looked very different around 1900.People crossing national borders by car encountered multiplehurdles on their way. Technically, they imported their vehicleinto a neighboring country and had to pay astronomic importduties. Often they needed to pass a driving test in each countrythey visited. Early on, automobile and touring clubs sought tomake life easier for traveling motorists.International negotiations tackled the problems arising fromdiffering regulations. The resulting volume describes everythingfrom the standardied traffic signs that saved human lives on theroad to the Europabus taking tourists from Stockholm to Romein the 1950s. Driving Europe offers a highly original portrait of aEurope built on roads in the course of the twentieth century.
Author: Gerold Ambrosius Publisher: Springer ISBN: 3319224670 Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 215
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This book compares the cross-border integration of infrastructures in Europe such as post, telecommunication and transportation in the 19th century and the period following the Second World War. In addition to providing a unique perspective on the development of cross-border infrastructures and the international regimes regulating them, it offers the first systematic comparison of a variety of infrastructure sectors, identifies general developmental trends and supplies theoretical explanations. In this regard, integration is defined as international standardization, network building and the establishment of international organizations to regulate cross-border infrastructures.
Author: Yannick Lung Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 0429839928 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 408
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First published in 1999, this book explores pint points, compares and dates the development of product differentiation and variety. This book also analyses’ how firms have embraced a variety of ways of efficiently managing this verity though production, the design of the product as well as in the relations with the suppliers and distributors.
Author: Hubert Bonin Publisher: Librairie Droz ISBN: 9782600012591 Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 708
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The Americanization of Europe and the strategic initiatives of American firms abroad have been well studied. The expansion of American firms in Europe, however, lacked a comprehensive study. This book gathers the works of two dozen economic and business historians from across Europe, preceded by Mira Wilkins' comparative essay. The collection addresses the timetable and pace of American direct investment in Europe, the patterns followed in each country according to the specificities of each industry and service sector, and the strategies followed by the different firms. The studies go beyond the facts, scrutinizing the immaterial aspects of this business history, especially European perceptions of American firms and the essential stakes of corporate images and identities. The Europeanization of American firms is a key issue, including social relations, management, commercial policies, brand image, connections and embeddedness. The authors gauge the reaction of public authorities and lobbies (industrialists and trade unions). Graphs and tables provide data, while overviews of ads published by American affiliates fuel analyses of consumer perception.
Author: Randall K. Morck Publisher: University of Chicago Press ISBN: 0226536831 Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 700
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For many Americans, capitalism is a dynamic engine of prosperity that rewards the bold, the daring, and the hardworking. But to many outside the United States, capitalism seems like an initiative that serves only to concentrate power and wealth in the hands of a few hereditary oligarchies. As A History of Corporate Governance around the World shows, neither conception is wrong. In this volume, some of the brightest minds in the field of economics present new empirical research that suggests that each side of the debate has something to offer the other. Free enterprise and well-developed financial systems are proven to produce growth in those countries that have them. But research also suggests that in some other capitalist countries, arrangements truly do concentrate corporate ownership in the hands of a few wealthy families. A History of Corporate Governance around the World provides historical studies of the patterns of corporate governance in several countries-including the large industrial economies of Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the United Kingdom, and the United States; larger developing economies like China and India; and alternative models like those of the Netherlands and Sweden.
Author: Hubert Bonin Publisher: Plage ISBN: Category : Globalization Languages : en Pages : 1010
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Transnational Companies (19th-20th centuries) gathers tests which were presented during the fourth convention of the European Business History Association in Bordeaux in September 2000. Most of them come from matured and well-known business historians or business schools specialists, but a bunch of texts were provided too by junior researchers, who found thus a way to promote their brand new inquiries ! Most branches are studied here, either heavy industries or agrobusiness and textile ; but specific areas are well approached : luxury firms, wine and beverages companies, for instance. The focus of Transnational Companies is to scrutinize the emergence of international policies among enterprises, whether through exports strategies or through direct investments in foreign countries, along branches, ways of development, entrepreneurial undertakings or competition's incentives. The book assesses too the move from internationalisation to transnationalisation in the interwar and mostly since the 1960s : owing to several case studies here presented, business schools and economic historians will be able to foster tuitions and seminars with fresh material. Lest several papers are earmarked to the argument about globalisation, that is the restructuring of firms'organisation towards internationalised internal divisions since the 1970s-1980s, as the book does cover the very last years of the 20th century.
Author: Hubert Bonin Publisher: Plage ISBN: Category : Automobile industry and trade Languages : en Pages : 620
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Ford Motor Company is a global giant. It pioneered mass production and the global multinational corporations. "Fordism" is a symbol of the modern age. In this book, produced in Ford's centenary year, an international team of independent researchers explores Ford's European history and presents new analyses of its dynamics and significance. Second volume looks at Ford's European history across a hundred years and a dozen countries. It looks at Ford in face of national rivalries, economic integration, depression, dictatorships and wars. The national histories, written by a team of international researchers, complement the broader thematic studies in volume One.
Author: David S. Landes
Author: David S. Landes
Author: Jean-Louis Loubet
Author: Frank Schipper
Author: Gerold Ambrosius
Author: Yannick Lung
Author: Hubert Bonin
Author: Randall K. Morck
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Author: Hubert Bonin
Author: Hubert Bonin