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1. The Dynamics of Big Business

   Structure, Strategy, and Impact in Italy and Spain

   By Veronica Binda

   Series: Routledge International Studies in Business History

   Throughout the Twentieth Century, big business has been a basic institution. Large corporations have provided a fundamental contribution to the wealth of nations and, at the same time, have had a remarkable impact on the political and social systems within which they have operated. It is difficult...

   Published March 3rd 2013 by Routledge
2. Women and Their Money 1700-1950

   Essays on Women and Finance

   Edited by Anne Laurence, Josephine Maltby, Janette Rutterford

   Series: Routledge International Studies in Business History

   This book examines women's financial activity from the early days of the stock market in eighteenth century England and the South Sea Bubble to the mid-twentieth century. The essays demonstrate how many women managed their own finances despite legal and social restrictions and show that women were...

   Published August 5th 2012 by Routledge
3. Technological Innovation in Retail Finance

   International Historical Perspectives

   Edited by Bernardo Batiz-Lazo, J. Carles Maixé-Altés, Paul Thomes

   Series: Routledge International Studies in Business History

   This edited volume offers a new and original approach to the study of technological change in retail finance. Documenting developments in the US alongside case studies from Mexico and Europe, Technological Innovation in Retail Finance addresses the variety of financial institutions that...

   Published July 26th 2012 by Routledge
4. Innovation and Entrepreneurial Networks in Europe

   Edited by Paloma Fernández Pérez, Mary Rose

   Series: Routledge International Studies in Business History

   The entrepreneur is involved in the dance of two questions – what is needed and what is possible. The interplay of these two questions is an ongoing process and innovation varies internationally and regionally, depending on differing legal and policy systems, variations in the development of...

   Published June 30th 2012 by Routledge
5. Trademarks, Brands, and Competitiveness

   Edited by Teresa da Silva Lopes, Paul Duguid

   Series: Routledge International Studies in Business History

   This book examines trademarks and brands, and their historical role in national competitive and comparative advantage and in overall economic growth. The contributors provide an historical account of the contribution of brands in consumer goods to economic growth; examine the...

   Published June 30th 2012 by Routledge
6. The Foundations of Female Entrepreneurship

   Enterprise, Home and Household in London, c. 1800-1870

   By Alison Kay

   Series: Routledge International Studies in Business History

   The Foundations of Female Entrepreneurship explores the relationship between home, household headship and enterprise in Victorian London. It examines the notions of duty, honor and suitability in how women’s ventures are represented by themselves and others and engages in a comparison of the...

   Published March 15th 2012 by Routledge
7. Reappraising State-Owned Enterprise

   A Comparison of the UK and Italy

   Edited by Franco Amatori, Robert Millward, Pier Angelo Toninelli

   Series: Routledge International Studies in Business History

   After a quarter century of almost general condemnation and rebuttal of the entire nationalization experience, it appears that there are second thoughts about governmental direct intervention in the economy. Reappraising State-Owned Enterprise deals with a topic often undervalued in the past decade...

   Published March 27th 2011 by Routledge
8. Narrating the Rise of Big Business in the USA

   How economists explain standard oil and Wal-Mart

   By Anne Mayhew

   Series: Routledge International Studies in Business History

   "This is a story about stories and specifically about some of the stories that Americans have told themselves about corporate economic power." In this book, Anne Mayhew focuses on the stories surrounding the creation of Standard Oil and Wal-Mart and their founders , John D. Rockefeller and Sam...

   Published January 26th 2011 by Routledge
9. The Origins of Globalization

   By Karl Moore, David Charles Lewis

   Series: Routledge International Studies in Business History

   Origins of Globalization draws widely on ancient sources and modern economic theory to detail the concept of “known world” globalization, arguing that a mixed economy--similar in many respects to our own--existed in a variety of forms throughout the ancient world. ...

   Published April 19th 2009 by Routledge
10. International Business and National War Interests

    Unilever between Reich and empire, 1939-45

    By Ben Wubs

    Series: Routledge International Studies in Business History

    This book deals with the activities of the Anglo-Dutch multinational during the war. Given the various threats faced by Unilever during the Nazi period, Ben Wubs argues that it was not self evident that the company would survive the war. Based on research into company sources which were hitherto...

    Published June 10th 2008 by Routledge