Corporate & Business History

Wal-Mart is the world's largest company and it sets the standard - both social and commercial - for a huge swath of the global economy. In this probing investigation, historian Nelson Lichtenstein shows how the company's success has spread evangelical...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780743246514Author TapscottFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & Schuster

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780977326419Author Jim CollinsFormat HardbackPage Count 240Imprint Jim CollinsPublisher Jim CollinsWeight(grams) 295gDimensions(mm) 196mm * 140mm * 23mm

The bus system that came to be known as the Greyhound Bus Company was founded by Carl Eric Wickman, an enterprising Swede of Hibbing, Minnesota. The first bus was a seven-passenger Hupmobile touring car that was used to transport miners across the Mesaba...

The HP Phenomenon tells the story of how Hewlett-Packard innovated and transformed itself six times while most of its competitors were unable to make even one significant transformation. It describes those transformations, how they started, how they...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143120032Author Michael PerinoFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint The Penguin PressPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 329gDimensions(mm) 213mm *...

In 1863, John Mahlon Marlin's dream was simply to make small, single-shot, derringer-type pistols. But within twenty years, his dream had grown into a corporation that would eventually be called The Marlin Firearms Company, and Marlin was one of the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780684804378Author Paul IngrassiaFormat PaperbackPage Count 532Imprint TouchstonePublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 669gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm *...

The current economic crisis reveals just how central finance has become to American life. Problems with obscure securities created on Wall Street radiated outward to threaten the retirement security of pensioners in Florida and Arizona, the homes and...

Last summer, nearly fifty thousand people traveled to Nevada's Black Rock Desert to participate in the countercultural arts event Burning Man. Founded on a commitment to expression and community, the annual weeklong festival presents unique challenges to...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781538707579Author Ben MezrichFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Grand Central PublishingPublisher Grand Central PublishingWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780983373469Author David Kassin FriedFormat PaperbackPage Count 188Imprint Mbi Concepts CorporationPublisher Mbi Concepts CorporationWeight(grams)...

How America's biggest company began taking better care of its workers--and why such efforts will never be enough.Fifteen years ago, Walmart was the most controversial company in America. By offering incredibly low prices, it had come to dominate the...

Start With the Future and Work Back: A Heritage Management Manifesto is a lively, often amusing, but seriously perceptive take on the business of history and the history of business. The book explores The History Factory's role in creating and shaping...

The epic battle of the fascinating, flawed figures behind America's deal culture and their fight over who controls and who benefits from the immense wealth of American corporations. Bloodsport is the story of how the mania for corporate deals and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780380703043Author Arthur GarfieldFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Avon BooksPublisher HarperCollins Publishers Inc

Since the rise of the small-sum lending industry in the 1890s, people on the lowest rungs of the economic ladder in the United States have been asked to pay the greatest price for credit. Again and again, Americans have asked why the most fragile...

The core theme of the book is the importance of an independent state audit to ensure that the Executive is held accountable to Parliament. Instilling effective financial control and accountability for the use of public funds and the proper conduct of...

This shortform book presents key peer-reviewed research selected by expert series editors and contextualised by new analysis from each author on government intervention and unexpected consequences in industrial history.With contributions on...

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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