Corporate & Business History

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 9780595324286Author Sally Ramage DabydeenFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint iUniversePublisher iUniverseWeight(grams) 290g

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...

A freewheeling saga about western American industrial might Who conceived of the Hoover, Bonneville, and Grand Coulee dams? Who laid the financial foundations for the Golden Gate and San Francisco Bay bridges? In Big Dams and Other Dreams, Donald E. Wolf...

It's 1901 and a guy named Harley has an idea. Put an engine on a bicycle. What? Outside his door, carts are still pulled by horses and autos are a rare sight. It's 1908 and a Harley-Davidson motorcycle sets a record by getting 188 miles to a gallon of...

It's the American dream-start a company, make a fortune, and retire early. But to become multimillionaires in their twenties, as Google founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin did, boggles the mind. All they did, after all, is come up with a better way to...

The first chronology of worldwide business history, this volume complements Robinson's earlier chronology, United States Business History, 1602-1988. It provides a basic chronology of the business world outside the United States from prehistory through...

As millions of people have been exposed to computing through the tremendous growth of microcomputers, there has developed an increasing appreciation of the history of data processing, which dates back many decades before the arrival of the computer...

Black business activity has been sustained in America for almost four centuries. From the marketing and trading activities of African slaves in Colonial America to the rise of 20th-century black corporate America, African American participation in...

The importance of technology in our day to day lives is something that few people would deny. At home and in the office, in business and in politics, the effects of technology are pervasive. In this important new study, Anthony DiFilippo examines one...

This book is a historical analysis of the gold standard from 1880-1914 focusing on the origins and workings of the gold standard as an international system. The system functioned smoothly until the onset of the First World War, when the foundations began...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780071735988Author Stephen H RhinesmithFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint McGraw-HillPublisher McGraw-HillWeight(grams) 426g

Overall, this first volume in the series should render business research in manufacturing a good deal easier by bringing together insightful industry histories and detailed critical bibliographies. This series has much to recommend it. Future volumes...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780812991635Author Gary RivlinFormat PaperbackPage Count 122Imprint AtrandomPublisher AtrandomWeight(grams) 159g

This volume is the result of a symposium in which 15 distinguished scholars, business leaders, lawyers, social scientists, philosophers, and theologians considered management and corporations in 1985.Book InformationISBN 9780837180519Author Melvin...

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Though usually regarded as a footnote in automotive history, Maxwell Motor was one of the leading automobile producers in the United States during the first quarter of the twentieth century, and its cars offered several innovations to buyers of the time...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780814207291Author Wilfried FeldenkirchenFormat PaperbackPage Count 734Imprint Ohio State University PressPublisher Ohio State University PressWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780759609174Author Donald Robert MeyetteFormat HardbackPage Count 224Imprint AuthorHousePublisher AuthorHouseWeight(grams) 501g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780759609167Author Donald Robert MeyetteFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint AuthorHousePublisher AuthorHouseWeight(grams) 336g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780738813301Author Bob TerryFormat HardbackPage Count 388Imprint Xlibris CorporationPublisher Xlibris CorporationWeight(grams) 667g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780674181915Author Professor Emeritus of History Morton KellerFormat HardbackPage Count 362Imprint Harvard University PressPublisher Harvard University...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780380806256Author Jonathan GatlinFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Avon BooksPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 204g

This reference book details the top 100 groundbreaking events in the history of American business, featuring case studies of successful companies who challenged traditional operating paradigms, historical perspectives on labor laws, management practices,...

This book offers the first full-length biography of the man often described as one of the most influential and innovative people in the gaming industry over the past 50 years. King of the Slots: William "Si" Redd relates the fascinating,...

Two guys named Steve, working in a garage, created a prototype computer designed to be different in a way no one thought possible: It would be easy to use. Those two Steves, one now a billionaire and still at the head of Apple, not only succeeded with...