Narrating the Rise of Big Business in the USA
Title | Narrating the Rise of Big Business in the USA PDF eBook |
Author | Anne Mayhew |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 196 |
Release | 2008-07-01 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 1135973431 |
"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 Walton, combining the accounts of economists with the s
Narrating the Rise of Big Business in the USA
Title | Narrating the Rise of Big Business in the USA PDF eBook |
Author | Anne Mayhew |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 196 |
Release | 2008-07 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 113597344X |
In this book, Anne Mayhew focuses on the stories surrounding the creation of Standard Oil and Wal-Mart, combining the accounts of economists with the somewhat darker pictures painted by writers of fiction.
Narrating the Rise of Big Business in the USA
Title | Narrating the Rise of Big Business in the USA PDF eBook |
Author | Anne Mayhew |
Publisher | Routledge International Studie |
Pages | 183 |
Release | 2008 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 9780415775342 |
"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 Walton, combining the accounts of economists with the somewhat darker pictures painted by writers of fiction to tease out the overarching narratives associated with American big business. Mayhew argues that the diverse views about big business and its effects of welfare can be reconciled and better policies derived from a somewhat unlikely combination of ideas from the business world and from those who have dissented from the most widely accepted story told by economists. This book draws on the work of Chandler, Coase and Williamson, as well as Marx and Veblen's discussion of supply chains to address some of the major social and economics problems of the twenty-first century.
The Rise of Big Business
Title | The Rise of Big Business PDF eBook |
Author | Glenn Porter |
Publisher | John Wiley & Sons |
Pages | 176 |
Release | 2014-08-26 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1118818695 |
The fundamental and explosive changes in the U.S. economy and its business system from 1860 to 1920 continue to fascinate and engage historians, economists, and sociologists. While many disagreements persist about the motivations of the actors, most scholars roughly agree on the central shifts in technologies and markets that called forth big business. Recent scholarship, however, has revealed important new insights into the changing cultural values and sensibilities of Americans who lived during the time, on women in business, on the ties between the emerging corporations and other American institutions, on the nature of competition among giant firms, and on the dawn of modern advertising and consumerism. This vast accumulation of notable new work on the social concept and consequences of economic change in that era has prompted Glenn Porter to recast numerous portions of The Rise of Big Business, one of Harlan Davidson’s most successful titles ever, in this, the third edition. Those familiar with this classic text will appreciate the expanded coverage of topics beyond the fray of regulation and the political dimensions of the emergence of concentrated enterprise, namely the influence of the rise of big business on social history. An entirely new bank of photographs and illustrations rounds out the latest edition of our enduringly popular title, one perfect for supplementary reading in a variety of courses including the U.S. history survey, the history of American business, and specialized courses in social history and the Gilded Age.
The Dynamics of Big Business
Title | The Dynamics of Big Business PDF eBook |
Author | Veronica Binda |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 320 |
Release | 2013-06-26 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 1134063350 |
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 to understand the development of the most advanced economies if we do not consider the specific evolution of big business in every national case. On the other hand, it is not possible to explain the shape and behavior of big business without considering its development as part of the history of the country in which they operate. The largest US, German, British and French firms were key actors in favoring their nations' development and, even at the end of the Twentieth Century, made a very important contribution to their growth. In many countries, a stable core of large corporations developed only relatively lately, or did not develop at all, and under these circumstances, big business was not able to significantly participate in the economic growth of such countries. Scholars who dealt with the economic history of Italy and Spain are generally unanimous in tagging these nations as industrial late-comers, ineffective in promoting big autochthonous private and State-owned firms, dominated by family companies, and characterized by a strong competitive advantage on the part of small and medium-sized enterprises. At the same time, Spanish and Italian business and economic historians have tended to say little about the role and features of big business. This book thus fills a significant gap in the work on the development of Southern European capitalism and its large corporations by analyzing the Italian and Spanish cases and comparing them with each other and with what has occurred in the United States and in the largest European nations. Examining both the macro dynamics (national but also supra national) and the micro level, utilizing samples of big corporations and going deeply into some company cases, this volume identifies some important protagonists of the Italian and Spanish economies (such as the State, families and foreign investors) and investigates a wider panorama which includes the political, economic and social relationships of the corporations, providing insights into the form of capitalism that exists in these countries.
The Rise of Big Business--America, 1865-1900
Title | The Rise of Big Business--America, 1865-1900 PDF eBook |
Author | Thomas F. Lisa |
Publisher | |
Pages | 82 |
Release | 1998 |
Genre | Big business |
ISBN |
Organizations in Time
Title | Organizations in Time PDF eBook |
Author | Marcelo Bucheli |
Publisher | Oxford University Press, USA |
Pages | 354 |
Release | 2014 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 0199646899 |
This book brings together leading organization scholars and business historians to examine the opportunities and challenges of incorporating historical research into the study of firms and markets.