{"product_id":"big-business-and-the-wealth-of-nations-paperback-9780521663472","title":"Big Business and the Wealth of Nations (Paperback) 9780521663472","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eBig Business and the Wealth of Nations\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eWritten in non-technical terms, this book explains how the dynamics of big business have influenced national and international economies.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eAlfred D. Chandler (Edited by), Franco Amatori (Edited by), Takashi Hikino (Edited by)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780521663472, Cambridge University Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback, published 28 October 1999\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e612 pages\u003cbr\u003e22.7 x 15.5 x 2.7 cm, 0.79 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e'Big Business and the Wealth of Nations is an important book that should be prescribed reading in economic geography courses.' Progress in Human Geography\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eWritten in non-technical terms, this book explains how the dynamics of big business have influenced national and international economies. A path-breaking study, it provides the first systematic treatment of big business in advanced, emerging, and centrally-planned economies from the late nineteenth century, when big businesses first appeared in American and West European manufacturing, to the present. Large industrial enterprises play a vital role in developing new technologies and commercializing new products in all of the major countries. How such firms emerged and evolved in different economic, political, and social settings constitutes a significant part of twentieth-century world history. This historical review of big business is particularly valuable today, when the viability of large enterprises is being challenged by small firms, networks, and alliances. These essays, written by internationally-known historians and economists, help one understand the essential role and functions of big business.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePreface\u003cbr\u003e Part I. Overview: 1. Historical and comparative contours of big business Alfred D. Chandler, Jr\u003cbr\u003e 2. The large industrial enterprise and the dynamics of modern economic growth Franco Amatori\u003cbr\u003e Part II. National Experiences of Big Business\u003cbr\u003e Group 1. Prime Drivers in North America and Western Europe: 3. The United States: engines of economic growth in the capital-intensive and knowledge-intensive industries Takashi Hikino\u003cbr\u003e 4. Great Britain: big business, management, and competitiveness in the twentieth century Geoffrey Jones\u003cbr\u003e 5. Germany: competition abroad, cooperation at home, 1870–1990 Ulrich Wegenroth\u003cbr\u003e 6. Small European nations: cooperative capitalism in the twentieth century Harm G. Schröter\u003cbr\u003e Group 2. Followers in Western Europe: 7. France: the relatively slow development of big business in the twentieth century Patrick Fridenson\u003cbr\u003e 8. Italy: the tormented rise of organizational capabilities between government and families Albert Carreras\u003cbr\u003e 9. Spain: big manufacturing firms between state and market, 1917–90 Xavier Tafunell\u003cbr\u003e Group 3. Late Industrializers in East Asia and South America: 10. Japan: increasing organizational capabilities of large industrial enterprises, 1880s–1980s Hidemasa Morikawa\u003cbr\u003e 11. South Korea: enterprising groups and entrepreneurial government Alice H. Amsden\u003cbr\u003e 12. Argentina: industrial growth and enterprise organization, 1880s–1980s María Inés Barbero\u003cbr\u003e Group 4. Centrally-Planned Economies in Eastern Europe: 13. USSR: large enterprises - the functional disorder Andrei Yu Yudanov\u003cbr\u003e 14. Czechoslovakia: the halting pace to scope and scale Alice Teichova\u003cbr\u003e Part III. Economic and Institutional Environment of Big Business: 15. Organizational competences, size, and the wealth of nations: some comments from a comparative perspective Giovanni Dosi and Takashi Hikino\u003cbr\u003e 16. Big business and skill formation in the wealthiest nations: the organizational revolution in the twentieth century William Lazonick and Mary O'Sullivan\u003cbr\u003e 17. Government, big business, and the wealth of nations Thomas K. McCraw\u003cbr\u003e 18. Constructing big business: the cultural concept of the firm Jeffrey R. 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