The growth of big business in the United States and Western Europe, 1850-1939
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The growth of big business in the United States and Western Europe, 1850-1939
（New studies in economic and social history / edited for the Economic History Society by Michael Sanderson, 23）
Cambridge University Press, 1995
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Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
This book provides the first introductory, comparative account of the rise of giant business corporations in America and Europe in the century before the Second World War. It discusses the evolution of firms like Ford, Exxon, Unilever and Siemens, as well as introducing the reader to the major explanations that have been advanced by historians and economists in order to account for these developments in the global economic order.
Table of Contents
- Acknowledgements and Note
- Editor's preface
- 1. Introduction
- 2. The nature and origins of big business
- 3. Variations in the rise and spread of big business
- 4. Institutional and technological factors
- 5. Markets, hierarchies and the managerial revolution
- 6. The impact of big business
- 7. Conclusions: history and theory
- Notes and references
- Select bibliography
- Index.
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