This book compares key strategic decisions by Sony and Samsung Electronics with respect to technology, marketing, and globalization from the mid 1990s to 2006, and then analyzes these firms' organizational process and top executives to examine the context of how those functional…
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This book compares key strategic decisions by Sony and Samsung Electronics with respect to technology, marketing, and globalization from the mid 1990s to 2006, and then analyzes these firms' organizational process and top executives to examine the context of how those functional…
"There is probably no other writer whose books I anticipate with more enthusiasm than Vaclav Smil. He brings remarkable insight to every topic he examines, combining his vast knowledge of science and energy, history and business to address some of the most pressing issues we fac…
The original India Pale Ale was pure gold in a glass; a semi-mythical beer specially invented, in the 19th century, to travel halfway around the world, through storms and tropical sunshine, and arrive in perfect condition for a long, cold drink on an Indian verandah. But althoug…
Reuters, one of the most famous names in news and media for more than a century, has suffered a dramatic reversal since the turn of the 20th century, laying off employees and experiencing a sharp decline in share price. This book examines the decline of Reuters and pinpoints its…
From the Civil War through the Great Depression small businessmen and their stores dominated retailing in nearly every city and town. Within the walls of their shops, grocers wrestled with fundamental changes in the structures of industrial and commercial capitalism, including t…
Vanderbilt, Carnegie, Rockefeller, Ford, Drew, Fisk, Harriman, Du Pont, Morgan, Mellon, Insull, Gould, Frick, Schwab, Swift, Guggenheim, Hearst - these are only a few of the foundation giants that have changed the face of America. They gave living reality to that great golden le…
"This rich, versatile, and significant contribution to the study of business history has the potential of emerging as a classic on the subject. It will be valuable for students and scholars of economic history, management, business studies, sociology, and economics. It will also…
These papers were originally given at a conference organized by the Society for European Business History. They reflect the degree of interest and even urgency in the investigation of the involvement of business corporations and of individual businessmen in the politics of the 1…
Allan H. Meltzer's critically acclaimed history of the Federal Reserve is the most ambitious, most intensive, and most revealing investigation of the subject ever conducted. Its first volume, published to widespread critical acclaim in 2003, spanned the period from the instituti…
At the Berlin Auto Show in 1938, Adolf Hitler presented the prototype for a small, oddly shaped, inexpensive family car that all good Aryans could enjoy. Decades later, that automobile--the Volkswagen Beetle--was one of the most beloved in the world. Bernhard Rieger examines cul…
A masterful history of a long underappreciated institution, How the Post Office Created America examines the surprising role of the postal service in our nation's political, social, economic, and physical development. The founders established the post office before they had even…
