History of Specific Companies/Corporate History

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...

Applying the theoretical lens of organizational institutionalism, this study analyzes the spread of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) in the Au...

The effective use of human resources and tangible or intangible assets are key components of an organization's success in the turbulent environment...

Italian cinema triumphed globally in the 1960, with directors such as Rossellini, Fellini, and Leone, and actors like Sophia Loren and Marcello Mas...

"Nathan’s Famous: The First 100 Years of America’s Favorite Frankfurter Company" chronicles the history and business strategies of company founder ...

International cartels are powerful organizations that impact our everyday lives, although they are little known. This book presents 15 historical c...

Until recently, McClelland and Stewart had been known as “The Canadian Publisher,” the country’s longest-lived and best independent press. Its dyna...

At the heart of Silicon Valley's meteoric rise is a story etched in the lives of those who shaped it and those who were forever transformed by it. ...

Drawing on a unique study of Australian advertising agencies at the dawn of the digital era, this book provides a hitherto unexplored study of the ...

Family networks and wider personal social relationships - guanxi - have long been held to be a significant factor making for the success of many Ch...

Mergers, acquisitions, and alliances continue to be almost an everyday feature of the contemporary business scene, yet at least half prove to be un...

From its earliest flights in 1926, carrying mail and occasionally a solo passenger to Chicago, to its acquisition by Delta in 2010, Northwest Airli...

The Southern Railway may not have been the most glamorous of the ‘Big Four’ companies that emerged from the grouping of 1923, but it was the great ...

Bill Hewlett and Dave Packard invented the model of the Silicon Valley start-up and set in motion a process of corporate becoming that made it poss...

In 1951, Alvin Cramer Segal, at the age of eighteen and without a formal education, started working in the factory of his stepfather's company in M...

'An inspiring success story.' Baroness Rona Fairhead, CBEA RINGSIDE SEAT ON SOME OF THE BIGGEST DEALS AND BIGGEST PERSONALITIES IN BUSINESS AND GLO...

What went wrong with American business at the end of the 20th century?Until the spring of 2001, Enron epitomized the triumph of the New Economy. Fe...

Gathering together an incredible array of contributors from the past century of the Tavistock to cover all aspects of amazing work they do. With ch...

First Published in 1989. This group of studies first appeared in a Special Issue of Business History, Vol.XXXI, No.3. (July 1989). These introducto...