Corporate & Business History

This book introduces business historians to oral history methodologies and approaches.Using four distinct oral history case studies to explore ideas of disruption and continuity in business history over the second half of the twentieth century, Robert...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781904879169Author Neil TaylorFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Cyan BooksPublisher Cyan BooksWeight(grams) 132g

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What role have the financial elites in European societies and markets played over time? What was their contribution to the recent financial collapse, and how does this compare to previous crises? How have financial elites adjusted to, or influenced, the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780674436800Author Richard H K VietorFormat HardbackPage Count 439Imprint Harvard University PressPublisher Harvard University PressWeight(grams) 826g

This study is a comparison of postwar productivity data for 34 British and American manufacturing industries. It examines statistical relationships between observed productivity differences and other variables, interpreting the relative influence of...

The late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries witnessed significant developments in the structure, organization, and expansion of financial markets and opportunities for investment in Britain and its empire. But very little is known about how men and...

This pioneering work provides an index to over 1,700 biographies of prominent U.S. entrepreneurs, innovators and company executives published in over 120 biographical collected works which are identified, examined, and indexed here. These collected works...

This work traces the history and background of the once great American consumer electronics manufacturing industry, an industry that was plagued and finally destroyed by an American-Japanese cartel subverting enforcement of our traditional trade laws...

Dogfight examines the intense rivalry of the past two decades between the European Airbus consortium and the major U.S. aircraft manufacturers, Boeing and McDonnell Douglas. From the Americans' point of view, Airbus has been heavily subsidized by its...

A guide to over 2200 reference sources for the social sciences. This work includes information on geography, business, economics, information technology, anthropology, history and law. Sources covered include directories, biographies, theses,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780385513579Author Anthony BiancoFormat PaperbackPage Count 337Imprint Broadway Books (A Division of Bantam Doubleday DelPublisher Broadway Books (A...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780894990878Author Frederick Upham AdamsFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint Books for BusinessPublisher Books for BusinessWeight(grams) 535g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780805091434Author Diarmuid JeffreysFormat PaperbackPage Count 485Imprint St Martin's PressPublisher St Martin's Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780870624384Author Michael VinsonFormat HardbackPage Count 168Imprint Arthur H. Clark CompanyPublisher Arthur H. Clark Company

A comprehensive history of a major American mining company For nearly a century, the Bunker Hill Company of Idaho was a leading U.S. mining and smelting corporation that played a key role in the nation's industrial development. At the same time, it was...

The second volume in the Handbook of American Business History series, this book offers concise histories of extractive, manufacturing, and service industries as well as extensive bibliographic essays pointing to the leading sources on each industry and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780071590006Author Roger a MorinFormat PaperbackPage Count 404Imprint McGraw-HillPublisher McGraw-HillWeight(grams) 540g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780369323385Author Edgar H ScheinFormat PaperbackPage Count 672Imprint ReadHowYouWantPublisher ReadHowYouWantWeight(grams) 156g

The economic and cultural roots of contemporary American business can be traced directly to developments in the era between the Civil War and World War I. The physical expansion of the country combined with development of transportation and communication...

This book makes the argument, supported by rich and extensive historical research into original sources, that it is possible to revolutionize work so that it can be, in the author's words, "satisfying, creative, and stimulating at the same time that...

In less than 30 years, the Japanese automobile industry has risen from obscurity to become the world's leading automobile producer. This bibliography, which lists over 600 English-language titles, focuses on the Japanese automobile industry and its...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780674333390Author John S EwingFormat HardbackPage Count 459Imprint Harvard University PressPublisher Harvard University PressWeight(grams) 853g

Kona is one of the world's premium coffees. Given its small-scale cultivation on family farms, however, it has been especially susceptible to price swings and market gluts. A Cup of Aloha is a heartfelt portrait of the farmers, millers, landowners,...

In Right of the Dial, Alec Foege explores how the mammoth media conglomerate Clear Channel Communications evolved from a local radio broadcasting operation, founded in 1972, into one of the biggest, most profitable, and most polarizing corporations in...

When people think of a grocery store, they have a multitude of images from a neighborhood shop on the corner to the modern-day supermarket. The grocery store has had a rich history, as business conditions have contributed to changes in both its economic...

Alfred D. Chandler, Jr. was, by general consensus, the pre-eminent business historian of the twentieth century. Through a prodigious body of work, Chandler made the study of the evolution of business enterprise integral to the study of the evolution of...

It's hard to imagine a day passing without most Americans enjoying some form of entertainment, whether it's going to a football game, watching television at home, or listening to the radio on the way to work. At the start of the 20th century, however,...

In 1940 few Americans had heard of mutual funds. Today U.S. mutual funds are the largest financial industry in the world, with over 88 million shareholders and over $11 trillion in assets. New and updated to reflect the crash of 2008, Matthew Fink's...

Exploring the issue of foreign ownership of corporate America, a leading economist and the president of the steel producer, Esmark, revisit the sale of that company to a Russian firm. Is it a good idea to allow foreigners to purchase critical and...

This unique volume provides a survey of U.S. business history in a chronological framework. Designed as a basic chronology of representative events, the work covers the years from 1602 to 1988, presenting those events that pioneered trends and those that...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780071589529Author Chris RoushFormat PaperbackPage Count 280Imprint McGraw-HillPublisher McGraw-HillWeight(grams) 413g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780578144627Author Ellen Israel RosenFormat PaperbackPage Count 222Imprint Workers PressPublisher Workers PressWeight(grams) 331g

An unlikely bookseller in New York City became the leading dealer in rare Western Americana for most of the twentieth century. After working in western-U.S. and South American gold mines at the turn of the twentieth century, Edward Eberstadt (1883-1958)...

With an emphasis on European issues, this book looks into the dynamics of the international ski industry. It presents research and statistical information, as well as case studies from Europe and North America.Book InformationISBN 9780304704712Author...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780578131412Author Robert Philip WrightFormat PaperbackImprint Wright Stuff PressPublisher Wright Stuff PressWeight(grams) 535g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780578557700Author S M MathiasFormat PaperbackPage Count 118Imprint Robot Square Books R2Publisher Robot Square Books R2Weight(grams) 145g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780990599036Author John Franklin Minges, IIIFormat PaperbackPage Count 136Imprint John Franklin Minges IIIPublisher John Franklin Minges IIIWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780738868837Author Scott CohenFormat PaperbackPage Count 139Imprint Xlibris CorporationPublisher Xlibris CorporationWeight(grams) 195g

Using the words of its own people, this intriguing book provides an in-depth look at the incredibly successful airline that changed the rules of the game with a no-frills business model and innovative corporate culture. Southwest Airlines turns in-depth...