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]).
Family Dynasties: The Evolution of Global Business in Scandinavia
1st Edition
By Hans Sjögren
December 18, 2020
A remarkable fifteen Nordic family businesses are among the 500 biggest companies in the world and the Nordic countries have more dynasties than most others per capita and in GDP terms. The willingness, often reluctant, of both the political system and labour movement to accept asset accumulation ...
Multinational Business and Transnational Regions: A Transnational Business History of Energy Transition in the Rhine Region, 1945-1973
1st Edition
By Marten Boon
December 18, 2020
Multinational Enterprise and Transnational Regions offers an innovative approach to the study of the history of transnational economic regions. The Rhine valley is such a region comprising the cities and areas along the Rhine river and its tributaries. The transition from coal to oil that unfolded ...
Multinational Enterprise, Political Risk and Organisational Change: From Total War to Cold War
1st Edition
By Neil Forbes, Takafumi Kurosawa, Ben Wubs
December 18, 2020
Hitherto, the organization of international business has been studied mostly from a managerial point of view or by examining the relationship between firms and the economy. Yet, the development of the modern, multinational firm - the most important type of business organisation - has been strongly ...
The Evolution of Business: Interpretative Theory, History and Firm Growth
1st Edition
By Ellen Korsager
December 18, 2020
Firm growth. This concept has interested researchers for generations. Economists have sought to predict and measure firm growth using a host of different variables, while strategic management scholars depict growth as the result of clever analyses and rational resource exploitation. ...
Making Managers in Canada, 1945-1995: Companies, Community Colleges, and Universities
1st Edition
By Jason Russell
July 31, 2020
Management education and training was a key influence on Canadian capital and labour in the post-World War II decades, however it has been the subject of comparatively little academic inquiry. In many ways, historians have frequently learned about management behavior in unionized workplaces by ...
Industries and Global Competition: A History of Business Beyond Borders
1st Edition
Edited
By Bram Bouwens, Pierre-Yves Donzé, Takafumi Kurosawa
December 05, 2019
Changes in the dynamics of economic activities since the last decades of the 20th century have yielded major changes in the composition of industries and the division of labor and production across different regions of the world. Despite these shifts in the global economy, some industries have ...
World Market Transformation: Inside the German Fur Capital Leipzig 1870 and 1939
1st Edition
By Robrecht Declercq
June 06, 2019
To the surprise of many, regionally embedded clusters of small to medium sized businesses have continued to exist in spite of industrialisation and mass production. While scholars have discovered that the advantages of embeddedness in terms of industrialisation were situated in interfirm ...
Foundations of Scenario Planning: The Story of Pierre Wack
1st Edition
By Thomas Chermack
August 23, 2018
Pierre Wack was head of scenario planning at Royal Dutch / Shell Oil in London for just over ten years. He died in 1997. He was a pioneer of what we know today as scenario planning – an alternative and complement to strategic planning. Scenarios explore a variety of possible futures for examining...
Reappraising State-Owned Enterprise: A Comparison of the UK and Italy
1st Edition
Edited
By Franco Amatori, Robert Millward, Pier Angelo Toninelli
August 23, 2018
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 ...
The Organization of Transport: A History of Users, Industry, and Public Policy
1st Edition
Edited
By Massimo Moraglio, Christopher Kopper
August 07, 2018
Over the past ten years, the study of mobility has demonstrated groundbreaking approaches and new research patterns. These investigations criticize the concept of mobility itself, suggesting the need to merge transport and communication research, and to approach the topic with novel instruments and...
The Power of Corporate Networks: A Comparative and Historical Perspective
1st Edition
Edited
By Thomas David, Gerarda Westerhuis
August 07, 2018
Corporate networks, the links between companies and their leaders, reflect a country’s economic organization and its corporate governance system. Most research on corporate networks focuses on individual countries or particular time periods, however, making fruitful comparisons over ...
The Rise and Fall of the Italian Film Industry
1st Edition
By Marina Nicoli
August 07, 2018
Italian cinema triumphed globally in the 1960, with directors such as Rossellini, Fellini, and Leone, and actors like Sophia Loren and Marcello Mastroianni known to audiences around the world. But by the end of the 1980s, the Italian film industry was all but dead. The Rise and Fall of the ...