History of Specific Companies/Corporate History

Many of us read books every day, either electronically or in print. We remember the books that shaped our ideas about the world as children, go bac...

We live in times of increasing world uncertainty. Consumer culture in Asia has embodied such precariousness, with their unprecedented states of bot...

Remember the Magic is the inspiring story of the birth of Horizon Air and how it became one of the top regional airlines in the United States under...

The first complete history of US industry's most influential and controversial lobbyistFounded in 1895, the National Association of Manufacturers—N...

Remember the Magic is the inspiring story of the birth of Horizon Air and how it became one of the top regional airlines in the United States under...

Learn about one of the most impactful distilleries in American history in this comprehensive tale  Buffalo, Barrels, & Bourbon tells the fascin...

First published in 1975, Liberty’s is the biography of a shop and its various owners in London. Responding to the social pressures, class patterns,...

There is a peculiar dissonance in innovation research. On the one hand, the label innovation is applied to almost everything: new products, process...

What gave rise to our modern conceptions of professional status, and how did particular professions gain their privileged status? Magali Sarfatti L...

Multilateral evidence has continued to show that the conspicuous absence of reputable ethical-ecological criteria for evaluating companies and busi...

This book examines frugality as an ideal and an ‘art de vivre’ which implies a low level of material consumption and a simple lifestyle, to open th...

In this socio-philosophical book, the author explains why gifts are not just moral expressions but function as binding social practices. The first ...

This is the story of the slow evolution of Goldman Sachs--addressing why and how the firm changed from an ethical standard to a legal one as it gre...

British multinationals faced unprecedented challenges to their organizational legitimacy in the middle of the twentieth century as the European col...

There is increasing academic interest in how Pierre Bourdieu’s sociology can be applied to management and organization studies (MOS). In a context ...

Chicago on the Nile relates the colourful story of the University of Chicago's Epigraphic Survey expedition to Egypt, from its conception in 1924 b...