1st Edition
Nobility and Business in History Investments, Innovation, Management and Networks
Preface—Nobeconomy: Nobility and Business in History
Silvia A. Conca Messina and Takeshi Abe
Introduction—Noblemen in business in the nineteenth century: The survival of an economic elite?
Silvia A. Conca Messina and Takeshi Abe
1. Far from the passive property. An entrepreneurial landowner in the nineteenth century Papal State
Daniela Felisini
2. The noble entrepreneurs coming from the bourgeoisie: Counts Bettoni Cazzago during the nineteenth century
Paolo Tedeschi
3. Agriculture and nobility in Lombardy. Land, management and innovation (1815–1861)
Silvia A. Conca Messina and Catia Brilli
4. Exemplifying aristocratic cross-border entrepreneurship before WWI, from a Portuguese perspective
Maria Eugénia Mata
5. The Genoese nobility: Land, finance and business from restoration to the First World War
Roberto Tolaini
6. Family entrepreneurial orientation as a driver of longevity in family firms: A historic analysis of the ennobled Trenor family and Trenor y Cía
Begoña Giner and Amparo Ruiz
7. An aristocratic enterprise: The Ginori porcelain manufactory (1735–1896)
Monika Poettinger
8. Nordic noblemen in business: The Ehrnrooth family and the modernisation of the Finnish economy during the late 19th century
Niklas Jensen-Eriksen, Saara Hilpinen and Annette Forsén
9. Socio-economic activities of former feudal lords in Meiji Japan
Takeshi Abe, Izumi Shirai and Takenobu Yuki
10. A gateway to the business world? The analysis of networks in connecting the modern Japanese nobility to the business elite
Shunsuke Nakaoka
Biography
Silvia A. Conca Messina is Associate Professor of Economic History in the Department of Historical Studies at the University of Milan, Italy. She recently edited Leading the Economic Risorgimento. Lombardy in the 19th Century, Routledge, 2022.
Takeshi Abe is Professor Emeritus of Osaka University, Japan, and is former President of the Business History Society of Japan (BHSJ). He is one of the editors of Region and Strategy in Britain and Japan: Business in Lancashire and Kansai 1890-1990, Routledge, 2000.
