Business History

This book employs an interdisciplinary approach to analyze innovation in entrepreneurship networks from a European perspective, focusing on the best methods for combining old and new knowledge...

Through its budgetary, managerial and regulatory review mandates, the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) in the US can function as an "enforcer" with a significant impact on public policy and its implementation. This is a study of the OMB and its significant role within the American government...

Through a detailed study of the archives of nearly 50 English and Scottish insurance companies founded between 1696 and 1850, together with the construction of many new datasets on output, performance and markets, Insuring the Industrial Revolution presents one of the most comprehensive histories ev..

This book ties together business history, the history of the Nazi economic administration and European history. It is relevant to several disciplines, including international relations, economic and business history, European history and political science...

Japanese Management in Evolution illustrates the significant changes that have been taking place in Japanese business by focusing on "emerging industries" in the relatively neglected service and "creative" sectors, and to put those changes in historical perspective by providing an overview of busine..

How did the conduct of business come to be so different in different countries? Why are some less developed countries in the process of rapid industrialization while so many others remain poor? This volume suggests some answers. Author David Hanson develops an analysis that focuses on governing elit..

How did the conduct of business come to be so different in different countries? Why are some less developed countries in the process of rapid industrialization while so many others remain poor? This volume suggests some answers. Author David Hanson develops an analysis that focuses on governing elit..

This work presents an effective design for processing information through five stages from data to actionable knowledge in order to influence behavior within organizations, in an alternative to crisis management that can be applied to any organization...

Multinational Enterprise and Transnational Regions offers an innovative transnational approach to the study of the history of economic regions. The historiography of the economic development of the Rhine region, a transnational economic region loosely comprising the cities and areas in the Rhine bas..

In this book, Anne Mayhew focuses on the stories surrounding the creation of Standard Oil and Wal-Mart, combining the accounts of economists with the somewhat darker pictures painted by writers of fiction...

This volume provides a more in-depth understanding of how the international transfer of technologies is organized and, in particular, challenges the core-periphery model that is still dominant in the extant literature. By looking beyond national systems of innovation, and statistics on foreign trade..

Performance Management: Concepts, Skills and Exercises..