Bücher der Reihe Business History and Political Economy

The problem of political risk and of how business deals with it has become an important field of research where business historians meet with social and political historians to analyse the interaction between companies and dictatorships. This title focuses on the interwar period to put contemporary business problems in a historical perspective.

The author posits that the US and the German automotive industries undertook similar patterns of industry modification during the 1990s, which departed from their traditional national patterns. Investigating the processes, he reconsiders the prevalent paradigms of political economy.