Corporate & Business History

Today's economy is fueled by knowledge. Every leader knows this to be true, yet few have systematic methods for converting organizational knowledge into economic value. This book argues that communities of practice--groups of individuals formed around...

Travel to virtually any African country and you are likely to find a Coca-Cola, often a cold one at that. 'Bottled' asks how this carbonated drink became ubiquitous across the continent, and what this reveals about the realities of globalisation,...

The toy industry and its close relationship with children's artefacts and equipment, made a huge contribution British ascendancy in light industry, after decline of heavy industry. Light industry was a pivotal theme in British economic history and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780812933789Author Bernie MarcusFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Random House USA IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 318gDimensions(mm)...

Concluding the Commodore trilogy, this book takes a look at Commodore's resurgence in the late 1980's and then ultimate demise. This was a period of immense creativity from engineers within the company, who began "moonshot" projects using emerging CD-ROM...

The untold story of Real Madrid: one of the most incredible turnarounds in sports and business history. Real Madrid is the most successful sports team on the planet. The soccer club has more trophies than any other sports team, including 11 UEFA...

The global beauty business permeates our lives, influencing how we perceive ourselves and what it is to be beautiful. The brands and firms which have shaped this industry, such as Avon, Coty, Estee Lauder, L'Oreal, and Shiseido, have imagined beauty for...

How the King of Beers collapsed without a fight and what it means for America's place in the post-Recession world How did InBev, a Belgian company controlled by Brazilians, take over one of America's most beloved brands with scarcely a whimper of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781510753990Author Robert L BlochFormat PaperbackPage Count 216Imprint Skyhorse PublishingPublisher Skyhorse PublishingWeight(grams) 159gDimensions(mm)...

The man the Detroit Free Press calls "a blue collar Tom Wolfe" delivers a full-barreled blast of truth and gritty reality in Rivethead, a no-holds-barred journey through the belly of the American industrial beast.Book InformationISBN 9780446394000Author...

This edition contains generous selections from all five volumes of The Wealth of Nations, and places Smith's inquiry into its historical, intellectual, and cultural context. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made...

The Wall Street Journal christened the deal "the biggest industrial merger of all time." The marriage of Daimler and Chrysler promised to rock the global auto industry and draw up a blueprint for international consolidation on an epic scale. But the...

The Wall Street Journal christened the deal "the biggest industrial merger of all time." The marriage of Daimler and Chrysler promised to rock the global auto industry and draw up a blueprint for international consolidation on an epic scale. But the...

Magnetic Venture is the inside story of Oxford Instruments, the first substantial spin-off company from Oxford University, established in 1959. Written by one of its founders, it describes the ups and downs, the mistakes and successes of a growing...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781467140713Author Anne Evers HitzFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint History PressPublisher History PressWeight(grams) 363gDimensions(mm) 226mm * 152mm *...

In the early 1990s, Motorola, the legendary American radio and telecom company, made a huge gamble on a revolutionary satellite telephone system called Iridium. Light-years ahead of anything previously put into space, built on technology for Ronald...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780062120991Author Jim CollinsFormat HardbackPage Count 320Imprint HarperCollins PublishersPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams)...

When Carter Bryant began work on what would become the billion-dollar line of Bratz dolls, he was taking time off from his job at Mattel where he designed outfits for Barbie. Later, back at Mattel, he sold his concept for Bratz to rival company MGA. Orly...

Strategic management has been increasingly characterized by an emphasis on core competences. Firms are advised to divest unrelated businesses and return to core business. Moreover, competitive advantage is now increasingly seen as a matter of efficiently...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780671897819Author Alecia SwasyFormat PaperbackPage Count 408Imprint TouchstonePublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 517gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm *...

Peter Gleick knows water. A world-renowned freshwater expert, Gleick is a MacArthur Foundation 'genius', and according to the BBC, an environmental visionary. And he drinks from the tap. Why don't the rest of us? "Bottled and Sold" shows how water went...

A behind-the-scenes look at Lexus's surprising twenty-year success story-in a revised new edition In the 1980s, German brands BMW and Mercedes-Benz dominated the luxury car market and had little reason to fear competition from Japan. But in 1989, Toyota...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780986205064Author Michael CrawfordFormat PaperbackPage Count 340Imprint Progress City Press, L.L.C.Publisher Progress City Press, L.L.C.Weight(grams) 499g

This study of Ferranti in its last six years of a long history provides a detailed exposition of the British and American businessmen who combined to terminate one of the UK's leading defence electronics firms. Involving action in the Middle East, South...

Merchants to Multinationals examines the evolution of multinational trading companies from the eighteenth century to the present day. During the Industrial Revolution, British merchants established overseas branches which became major trade...

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...

"David Kaye's book is crucial to understanding the tactics, rhetoric and stakes in one of the most consequential free speech debates in human history." -Cory Doctorow The internet was designed to be a kind of free-speech paradise, but a lot of the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780767901840Author Kevin FreibergFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint 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 9781550229493Author Dean BudnickFormat HardbackPage Count 376Imprint ECW Press,CanadaPublisher ECW Press,CanadaWeight(grams) 693g

We live our lives immersed in name brand products. It's hard to drive down the street without seeing a plethora of chain restaurants, car dealerships, branded clothing they're all around us. What most of us don't know is that the origins of many of the...

Nigel Botterill had a successful corporate career. Big six figure salary, bonuses, the works. Then, one day in November 2002, a meeting didn't quite go to plan. He found himself out of a job and, on the way home to tell his wife the news, he took the...

The Dennis company has been building vehicles since 1895, making it the oldest continuously producing British manufacturer. From its origins in a small Guildford shop, the company has grown to become a major bus manufacturer with its products selling...

Sweating Together: How Peloton Built a Billion Dollar Venture and Created Community in a Digital World by David J. Miller, PhD (#ChicagoBorn) The ultimate front row look at the meteoric rise of Peloton, one of the hottest consumer and fitness...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781400051434Author Shaun AssaelFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Crown Publishing Group (NY)Publisher Crown Publishing Group (NY)Weight(grams)...

Many observers have suggested that capitalism is fast destroying our planet, concentrating power in a few big companies. Excessive short-termism, leveraged debt, digitisation, and disruption are the new normal. We stand at a critical juncture where the...

New competitive realities have ruptured industry boundaries, overthrown much of standard management practice, and rendered conventional models of strategy and growth obsolete. In their stead have come the powerful ideas and methodologies of Gary Hamel...

Today, John Deere is remembered-some say mistakenly-as the inventor of the steel plow. Who was this legendary man and how did he create the internationally renowned company that still bears his name? He began as a debt-stricken blacksmith who, fleeing...

It seems incredible that a mere 33 years separates the maiden flights of the Barnes Wallis-designed R.100 airship from the beautiful VC10 airliner. It is also remarkable that, in 2013, the latter is still in service, albeit in dwindling numbers, but...

At the time of the One-Eleven's first flight, BAC seemed to have stolen a march on its American rivals. It was comfortably ahead of the similarly configured DC-9, and the Boeing 737 was barely a gleam in Boeing's eye at the time. So why was it that...

By examining "the real thing" ingredient by ingredient, this brilliant history shows how Coke used a strategy of outsourcing and leveraged free public resources, market muscle, and lobbying power to build a global empire on the sale of sugary water. Coke...