Routledge International Studies in Business History
About the Book Series
Recent years have seen an explosion of research in business history. Business history is now seen variously as a key to understanding a vital aspect of the past, a source of parallels and insights into modern business practice, and a way of understanding the evolution of modern business practice. This series is not limited to any single approach, and explores a wide range of issues and industries.
Authors wishing to submit proposals for publication consideration in the Routledge International Studies in Business History series can contact series editors Heidi Tworek ([email protected]) and Ai Hisano ([email protected]).
Politics and Rhetoric of Italian State Steel Privatisation: A Gramscian Analysis
1st Edition
By Edoardo Mollona, Luca Pareschi
January 29, 2024
The globally spreading privatisation wave that occurred in the 1990s deeply changed the structure of economic institutions worldwide. This turmoil overturned not only economic institutions, but shared cultural and societal institutions as well. This book is the result of an investigation into the ...
Internationalisation and Strategic Control: An Industrial History
1st Edition
By Morten Pedersen
May 31, 2023
This book is a study of the emergence of international business. It immerses itself in the topic of how companies can control income-generating assets in foreign countries, the key element often used to define a multinational enterprise, and propounds the notion that control of crucial dispositions...
Leading the Economic Risorgimento: Lombardy in the 19th Century
1st Edition
Edited
By Silvia A. Conca Messina
May 31, 2023
Lombardy, with about 10 million inhabitants, is today the most populated and prosperous region of Italy, and Milan is a renowned capital of art, fashion and design. During the 19th century until WWI, the region gradually became the leader in Italy’s economic development and distinguished itself in ...
Pervasive Powers: The Politics of Corporate Authority
1st Edition
Edited
By Sara Angeli Aguiton, Marc-Olivier Déplaude, Nathalie Jas, Emmanuel Henry, Valentin Thomas
May 31, 2023
In an era of systemic crisis and of global critiques of the unsustainable perpetuation of capitalism, Pervasive Powers: The Politics of Corporate Authority critically questions the conditions for the maintenance and expansion of corporate power. The book explores empirical case studies in the ...
The Emergence of Corporate Governance: People, Power and Performance
1st Edition
Edited
By Knut Sogner, Andrea Colli
December 19, 2022
Corporate governance is not just about models of best practice organisation or prescriptions following laws or social conventions. Corporate governance is also about persons of power seeking performance, and they do so in ways that transcend structures and pre-conceived notions of the structural ...
Entrepreneurship in the Age of Empire: Colonialism, Collaboration and Exploitation
1st Edition
By Sarah Dietz
August 01, 2022
Exploring the interplay of politics and commerce in one of the most dynamic periods of British history, this book traces the fortunes of the India and Eastern Trading Company Limited, established in 1906 to finance a jute plantation in Assam, north-east India. In a watershed period for commercial ...
Innovative Consumer Co-operatives: The Rise and Fall of Berkeley
1st Edition
By Greg Patmore
June 13, 2022
Consumer co-operatives provide a different approach to organizing business through their ideals of member ownership and democratic practice. Every co-operative member has an equal vote regardless of his or her own personal capital investment. The co-operative movement can also be an important force...
Gendered Capitalism: Sewing Machines and Multinational Business in Spain and Mexico, 1850-1940
1st Edition
By Paula De La Cruz-Fernández
May 06, 2021
Gendered Capitalism: Sewing Machines and Multinational Business in Spain and Mexico, 1850–1940 is a history of the gendered corporation, a study that examines how ideas and ideals about domesticity and the cultures of sewing and embroidery, being gender-specific, shaped the US-headquartered ...
Business, Ethics and Institutions: The Evolution of Turkish Capitalism in Global Perspectives
1st Edition
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By Asli M. Colpan, Geoffrey Jones
April 01, 2021
This book is the first systematic scholarly study on the business history of Turkey from the nineteenth century until the present. It aims to place the distinctive characteristics of capitalism in Turkey within a global and comparative perspective, dealing with three related issues. First, it ...
Co-operation and Globalisation: The British Co-operative Wholesales, the Co-operative Group and the World since 1863
1st Edition
By Anthony Webster
March 31, 2021
Globalisation is associated with capitalist multinationals dedicated to the enrichment of wealthy, corporate shareholders. However, less well known is that the English and Scottish Co-operative Wholesale Societies, owned by the growing number of local co-operative societies across the country, were...
The Age of Entrepreneurship: Business Proprietors, Self-employment and Corporations Since 1851
1st Edition
By Robert Bennett, Harry Smith, Carry van Lieshout, Piero Montebruno, Gill Newton
March 31, 2021
This landmark research volume provides the first detailed history of entrepreneurship in Britain from the nineteenth century to the present. Using a remarkable new database of more than nine million entrepreneurs, it gives new understanding to the development of Britain as the world’s ‘first ...
Commodity Trading, Globalization and the Colonial World: Spinning the Web of the Global Market
1st Edition
By Christof Dejung
December 18, 2020
Commodity Trading, Globalization and the Colonial World: Spinning the Web of the Global Market provides a new perspective on economic globalization in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Instead of understanding the emergence of global markets as a mere result of supply and demand or as the ...