Family Firms In Postwar Britain And Germany

Author : David Paulson
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
ISBN 13 : 1783277580
Total Pages : 363 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Family Firms in Postwar Britain and Germany written by David Paulson and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 2023-02-21 with total page 363 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines the culture and conduct of six small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in England and West Germany from 1945 to the late-1970s, drawing on numerous archives in Germany and Britain. This is the first book length study that examines the detailed histories of SMEs in a comparative, transnational manner. Emerging from this study is an evaluation of German and British varieties of capitalism in action, showing that they were not fixed or static, but rather have changed considerably as they evolved over time. The German companies studied formed part of the Mittelstand, the family-owned sector which is unique to German-speaking countries. This book explores whether the principles of a close identification with the surrounding region and a patriarchal culture within a 'family' atmosphere were adopted in practice then, and whether they are still applicable today. Paulson compares the Mittelstand to British SMEs in order to understand how their approach differed from that of their German counterparts. For both countries, the 'ecosystem' which surrounded businesses is examined, paying particular attention to funding and vocational education. The book concludes that the potential for a British Mittelstand existed, but that British companies were often less well managed and had to operate within a less supportive external environment than that which favoured the Mittelstand. Historical lessons learned from the management of these companies still resonate today, and can help us to understand contemporary differences in business performance. This book will therefore be of interest to scholars and students of twentieth-century business and economic history, as well as management studies.

Author : Laura Clancy
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 152614932X
Total Pages : 179 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Running the Family Firm written by Laura Clancy and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2021-09-28 with total page 179 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In recent decades, the global wealth of the rich has soared to leave huge chasms of wealth inequality. This book argues that we cannot talk about inequalities in Britain today without talking about the monarchy. Running the Family Firm explores the postwar British monarchy in order to understand its economic, political, social and cultural functions. Although the monarchy is usually positioned as a backward-looking, archaic institution and an irrelevant anachronism to corporate forms of wealth and power, the relationship between monarchy and capitalism is as old as capitalism itself. This book frames the monarchy as the gold standard corporation: The Firm. Using a set of case studies – the Queen, Prince Charles, Prince Harry, Kate Middleton and Meghan Markle – it contends that The Firm’s power is disguised through careful stage management of media representations of the royal family. In so doing, it extends conventional understandings of what monarchy is and why it matters.

Author : Mansel G. Blackford
Publisher : UNC Press Books
ISBN 13 : 146960020X
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Rise of Modern Business written by Mansel G. Blackford and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2012-07-01 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Rise of Modern Business compares and analyzes the development of business and business institutions in several countries from the preindustrial era to the present. Paying close attention to connections between business development and political, social, and cultural changes, Blackford addresses both manufacturing and nonmanufacturing firms, small firms as well as big businesses. For this third edition, he updates his study in light of new scholarship, with special attention paid to the structural diversity of business firms and with a timely discussion about the reciprocal relationship between business and the environment. The business history of Germany is extensively updated, and there is entirely new coverage of the business history of China, a country whose growing political and economic prowess on the world stage demands the historical and contextual understanding of business scholars today.

Author : Giovanni Dosi
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1349133892
Total Pages : 477 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Organization and Strategy in the Evolution of the Enterprise written by Giovanni Dosi and published by Springer. This book was released on 1996-04-22 with total page 477 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the role of competence, organization and strategies of firms in industrial dynamics linking economic, management and historical perspectives. In the first part of the book, a series of economic and managerial contributions discuss the concepts, dimensions and effects of routines, competence, adaptation, learning, organizational structure and strategies in the evolution of industrial enterprises at the theoretical and empirical levels. In the second part of the book, a series of historical papers examine these issues in a longterm perspective for the United States, Japan and several European countries.

Author : George M. Constantinides
Publisher : Newnes
ISBN 13 : 0444594655
Total Pages : 1732 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Handbook of the Economics of Finance SET:Volumes 2A & 2B written by George M. Constantinides and published by Newnes. This book was released on 2013-01-21 with total page 1732 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This two-volume set of 23 articles authoritatively describes recent scholarship in corporate finance and asset pricing. Volume 1 concentrates on corporate finance, encompassing topics such as financial innovation and securitization, dynamic security design, and family firms. Volume 2 focuses on asset pricing with articles on market liquidity, credit derivatives, and asset pricing theory, among others. Both volumes present scholarship about the 2008 financial crisis in contexts that highlight both continuity and divergence in research. For those who seek insightful perspectives and important details, they demonstrate how corporate finance studies have interpreted recent events and incorporated their lessons. Covers core and newly-developing fields Explains how the 2008 financial crises affected theoretical and empirical research Exposes readers to a wide range of subjects described and analyzed by the best scholars

Author : Volker R. Berghahn
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691171440
Total Pages : 387 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book American Big Business in Britain and Germany written by Volker R. Berghahn and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2016-05-31 with total page 387 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While America's relationship with Britain has often been deemed unique, especially during the two world wars when Germany was a common enemy, the American business sector actually had a greater affinity with Germany for most of the twentieth century. American Big Business in Britain and Germany examines the triangular relationship between the American, British, and German business communities and how the special relationship that Britain believed it had with the United States was supplanted by one between America and Germany. Volker Berghahn begins with the pre-1914 period and moves through the 1920s, when American investments supported German reconstruction rather than British industry. The Nazi seizure of power in 1933 led to a reversal in German-American relations, forcing American corporations to consider cutting their losses or collaborating with a regime that was inexorably moving toward war. Although Britain hoped that the wartime economic alliance with the United States would continue after World War II, the American business community reconnected with West Germany to rebuild Europe’s economy. And while Britain thought they had established their special relationship with America once again in the 1980s and 90s, in actuality it was the Germans who, with American help, had acquired an informal economic empire on the European continent. American Big Business in Britain and Germany uncovers the surprising and differing relationships of the American business community with two major European trading partners from 1900 through the twentieth century.

Author : Mark J. Crowley
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
ISBN 13 : 1783275871
Total Pages : 245 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Women's Experiences of the Second World War written by Mark J. Crowley and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 2021 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Using a very wide range of detailed sources, the book surveys the many different experiences of women during the Second World War.

Author : Alfred Dupont CHANDLER
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674029380
Total Pages : 782 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Scale and Scope written by Alfred Dupont CHANDLER and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2009-06-30 with total page 782 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Scale and Scope is Alfred Chandler's first major work since his Pulitzer Prize-winning The Visible Hand. Representing ten years of research into the history of the managerial business system, this book concentrates on patterns of growth and competitiveness in the United States, Germany, and Great Britain, tracing the evolution of large firms into multinational giants and orienting the late twentieth century's most important developments. This edition includes the entire hardcover edition with the exception of the Appendix Tables.

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Publisher : Hotei Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9004292306
Total Pages : 429 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Anglo-German Theatrical Exchange written by and published by Hotei Publishing. This book was released on 2015-02-04 with total page 429 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Through the great diversity of topics and methodologies the essays in this volume make a seminal contribution to an under-researched field at the intersection of literary and cultural criticism, comparative literature, and theatre as well as translation studies. The essays cover a wide range of texts from the eighteenth to the twenty-first century. From a broad variety of perspectives the exchange between drama and theatre of the Anglophone and the Germanophone worlds and their mutual influence are explored. While there is a focus on the successful or unsuccessful bridging of the cultural gaps, due consideration is given to the nexus between intercultural translation and mise en scène as well as the intricacies of intermedial reshaping. Always placing the analyses within the political and socio-historical contexts the essays make an innovative contribution to the aesthetics of Anglo-German theatrical exchange as well as to European cultural history.

Author : Hartmut Berghoff
Publisher : Campus Verlag
ISBN 13 : 3593445301
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Varieties of Family Business written by Hartmut Berghoff and published by Campus Verlag. This book was released on 2020-12-16 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Familienunternehmen sind in Deutschland und in den USA zentrale Bausteine der jeweiligen Volkswirtschaft. Und doch gibt es signifikante Unterschiede in der Unternehmens- und Familienkultur sowie der institutionellen Umwelt. So wird Deutschland in den USA um seine leistungsstarken Familienunternehmen, vor allem die Hidden Champions, beneidet. Zudem bestehen deutsche Familienunternehmen im Durchschnitt deutlich länger. Wie kam es zu diesen Divergenzen? Die von der Stiftung Familienunternehmen herausgegebene historische Langzeitbetrachtung analysiert die Ursachen und Auswirkungen der Unternehmenslandschaften in beiden Ländern von der Industrialisierung im 19. Jahrhundert bis zur Gegenwart. For an English description see: https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/distributed/V/bo86151146.html