Corporate & Business History

In 1962, Masahiro Shima founded Shima Seiki, with the aim of developing a fully automated seamless glove-knitting machine. Following this success, the company expanded into flat knitting machines. However, the age of the computer brought a whole new era...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781636767666Author Karla QuintanillaFormat PaperbackPage Count 188Imprint New Degree PressPublisher New Degree PressWeight(grams) 222gDimensions(mm) 216mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781587982835Author Peter, Z. GrossmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 420Imprint Beard BooksPublisher Beard BooksWeight(grams) 615gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm *...

This book is the tale not just of the two extraordinary men of its title but also of the formative decades of twentieth-century America, through two world wars and changes in business, industry, politics, and culture. You couldn't find two more different...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781893122086Author Joseph R. DaughenFormat PaperbackPage Count 380Imprint Beard BooksPublisher Beard BooksWeight(grams) 483gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780062362506Author Nathaniel PopperFormat PaperbackPage Count 432Imprint CollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 272gDimensions(mm) 203mm...

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781439190982Author Duff McDonaldFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 340gDimensions(mm) 211mm *...

How beliefs shape financial markets and expose the economy to major risksThe collapse of Lehman Brothers in September 2008 caught markets and regulators by surprise. Nicola Gennaioli and Andrei Shleifer walk readers through the unraveling of Lehman and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780767930895Author William D. CohanFormat PaperbackPage Count 608Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 468gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781637743430Author John CatsimatidisFormat HardbackPage Count 304Imprint Matt Holt BooksPublisher BenBella BooksWeight(grams) 471gDimensions(mm) 236mm *...

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...

The untold story of the world's premier bourbon and the family that made it #1 American Still Life tells the intertwined true stories of America's favorite whiskey and the family dynasty that produces it to this very day. Jim Beam is the world's...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781591846604Author Bethany McLeanFormat PaperbackPage Count 480Imprint PortfolioPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 556gDimensions(mm) 230mm * 154mm *...

Valued at $25 billion following its IPO in 2014, JD.com (Jingdong) is China's second largest e-commerce company (behind its rival Alibaba) and leads the way in sales of consumer electronics and books. Through unprecedented access to the inner-workings of...

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 9780471180005Author P OrmerodFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint John Wiley & Sons IncPublisher John Wiley and Sons LtdWeight(grams) 390gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780060761387Author Steve KemperFormat PaperbackPage Count 323Imprint Harper BusinessPublisher Harper BusinessWeight(grams) 340gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 132mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Pat Conroy Southern Book Prize (Nonfiction) 2015 and ALA Notable Books (Nonfiction) 2015.Book InformationISBN 9780316231435Author Beth MacyFormat HardbackPage...

Heenan Blaikie was one of Canada's leading law firms that boasted 1,100 employees and once had two former prime ministers on its staff -- Pierre Trudeau and Jean ChrEtien. When it collapsed in February 2014, lawyers across Canada and the business...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780062698308Author Jacques PerettiFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint CollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 204gDimensions(mm) 203mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781439123096Author Leslie CauleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint The Free PressPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 472gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm...

While the success of Disneyland is largely credited to Walt and Roy Disney, there was a third, mostly forgotten dynamo instrumental to the development of the park - fast-talking Texan C. V. Wood. Three Years in Wonderland presents the never-before-told,...

The pharmaceutical revolution that gathered pace in the 1930s delivered a plethora of almost magical new drugs such as penicillin, streptomycin, cortisone, and the birth control pill. This revolution grew from academic-business relationships in five...

The business of reinsurance developed at the fringe of financial services and, for most of its existence, went largely unnoticed outside the expert community. More recently, both public and professional sensitivity towards managing risks has increased...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780881327038Author Caroline FreundFormat PaperbackPage Count 199Imprint The Peterson Institute for International EconomicsPublisher The Peterson Institute...

When Steven Burd, CEO of the supermarket chain Safeway, cut wages and benefits, starting a five-month strike by 59,000 unionized workers, he was confident he would win. But where traditional labor action failed, a novel approach was more successful. With...

For decades, the name Labatt was synonymous with beer in Canada, but no longer. Brewed in the North traces the birth, growth, and demise of one of the nation's oldest and most successful breweries. Opening a window into Canada's complicated relationship...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781626562790Author DavisFormat HardbackPage Count 240Imprint Berrett-KoehlerPublisher Berrett-KoehlerWeight(grams) 1gDimensions(mm) 94mm * 64mm * 7mm

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...

In the late nineteenth century, corporate managers began to rely on photography for everything from motion studies to employee selection to advertising. This practice gave rise to many features of modern industry familiar to us today: consulting,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780743290197Author Matthew MayFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 272gDimensions(mm) 226mm * 147mm...

Industrial Clusters shows the latest state of knowledge on the topic of industrial clusters, with a particular focus on clustering in the UK, bringing together a chronological coverage of the phenomenon. This set of original essays by a group of leading...

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 Target Story will help you understand and adopt the competitive strategies, workplace culture, and daily business practices that enabled the big box store to become the retail giant it is today.In an industry that has seen constant disruption over...

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...

Ai Hisano exposes how corporations, the American government, and consumers shaped the colors of what we eat and even the colors of what we consider "natural," "fresh," and "wholesome."The yellow of margarine, the red of meat, the bright orange of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781576750490Author ALAN G. ROBINSONFormat PaperbackPage Count 296Imprint Berrett-KoehlerPublisher Berrett-Koehler

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsCommended for Independent Publisher Book Awards (Sports/Recreation) 2012.Book InformationISBN 9781595910707Author Jim GormanFormat HardbackPage Count 224Imprint Melcher...