Bücher der Reihe Comparative Perspectives in Business History

This volume explores the implications of Chinese 'state capitalism' for industrial competitiveness, corporate governance, government-business relations, and domestic welfare. It sheds new light on how its institutions have adapted to new challenges and party-state priorities, as China enters a phase of more modest growth.

This 2003 book offered the first in-depth international survey of contemporary research and debates in business history. The contributors have documented and analyzed the evolution of a wide range of important companies, their patterns of innovation, production, and distribution, their financial affairs, their political activities, and their social impact.

This book examines the twentieth-century rise and fall of state-owned enterprises (SOEs), a chief instrument of state economic intervention. Through studies of such enterprises in Western Europe and the United States, the authors offer historical perspectives on the origins of SOEs, their performance, and the reasons for their precipitate decline.

This book examines the twentieth-century rise and fall of state-owned enterprises (SOEs), a chief instrument of state economic intervention. Through studies of such enterprises in Western Europe and the United States, the authors offer historical perspectives on the origins of SOEs, their performance, and the reasons for their precipitate decline.

This 2003 book offered the first in-depth international survey of contemporary research and debates in business history. The contributors have documented and analyzed the evolution of a wide range of important companies, their patterns of innovation, production, and distribution, their financial affairs, their political activities, and their social impact.

An overview of the development of cooperatives over the last fifty years, addressing the major challenges that they face in the future.

The essays in this volume ask whether the widespread adoption of digital technology has led to large-scale or structural changes in modern business systems. The book provides a robust exploration of the impact the third industrial revolution - the digital revolution - had on global business.

An overview of the development of cooperatives over the last fifty years, addressing the major challenges that they face in the future.