Corporate & Business History

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780814431139Author Price M CobbsFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint AmacomPublisher AmacomWeight(grams) 408g

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...

This history of Burrell & Son of Glasgow describes the way in which ship ownership and operation developed during the final years of the age of sail and the beginning of the era of steamships. Not only does the work contain background material on...

This comprehensive overview of the history of computing and its industry, and of commercial applications of the computer also outlines the history of how computing operations were managed within American companies. Based on extensive research in the...

This book examines the U.S. pulp and paper industry between 1900 and 1940, the period when pulp and paper production relocated from the North to the South and the West. This relocation was one of the most influential shifts in industrial production in...

The history of the computer, and of the industry it spawned, is the latest entrant into the field of historical studies. Scholars beginning to turn their attention to the subject of computing need James Cortada's Archives of Data Procesing History as a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780313227356Author Elenor AmigoFormat HardbackPage Count 219Imprint Praeger Publishers IncPublisher ABC-CLIO

An introductory survey of the industry's history precedes the dictionary proper--articles arranged in alphabetical order which describe virtually every facet of the industry. Institutions, personalities, legislation, terminology, histories of breweries...

This book brings together the work of leading international thinkers working in the overlapping areas of economics, organization studies, business history, corporate strategy, and innovation. There is a growing awareness that the perspectives of a single...

This engrossing history of an extraordinary company, Corning Incorporated, chronicles how one of the oldest business enterprises in the world maintained its place as a global leader in technology for over 150 years. In the nineteenth century, Corning...

For 150 years, Corning Incorporated has repeatedly succeeded in their quest to create new products for an ever-changing marketplace. Corning and the Craft of Innovation is the story of the extraordinary research and development strategy that propelled...

In this dynamic book, based on the most effective strategies of IBM and other market leaders, managers will learn to successfully transform their organizations into a business prepared to compete in a networked age. Mainframes, client servers, PCs,...

The world in which firms compete is now global, increasingly dominated by technology, and rapidly changing. Old organization structures are too inflexible and static to permit firms to remain competitive. In this new book, experts from a major business...

In this compelling, readable narrative, Joe Sherman explores virtually every aspect of the Saturn project, America's biggest and most publicized industrial success of the last decade. Here is the whole story - Saturn's mysterious beginnings inside...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780060838584Author Eric SchlosserFormat PaperbackPage Count 383Imprint HarperCollins PublishersPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 308g

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780711019720Author Leo MarriottFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Ian Allan PublishingPublisher Crecy Publishing

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780852635643Author David SekersFormat PaperbackPage Count 32Imprint Shire PublicationsPublisher Bloomsbury Publishing PLC