Business History Books

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11. A History of Entrepreneurship

    By Robert F Hébert, Albert N. Link

    Series: Routledge Studies in the History of Economics

    This book establishes a chronological trace of the entrepreneur as treated in economic literature in order to give a more wholesome perspective to contemporary writings and teachings on entrepreneurship. It focuses on the nature and role of the entrepreneur, and of entrepreneurship, as revealed in...

    Published May 9th 2012 by Routledge
12. The Foundations of Female Entrepreneurship

    Enterprise, Home and Household in London, c. 1800-1870

    By Alison Kay

    Series: Routledge International Studies in Business History

    The Foundations of Female Entrepreneurship explores the relationship between home, household headship and enterprise in Victorian London. It examines the notions of duty, honor and suitability in how women’s ventures are represented by themselves and others and engages in a comparison of the...

    Published March 15th 2012 by Routledge
13. Pioneers in Marketing

    A Collection of Biographical Essays

    By D.G. Brian Jones

    Series: Routledge Advances in Management and Business Studies

    Pioneers in Marketing: A Collection of Biographical Essays discusses eight historically important marketing scholars whose careers collectively spanned over 100 years. An introductory chapter describes the role of biography in the study of marketing thought, and introduces the eight subjects in...

    Published December 20th 2011 by Routledge
14. A History of Management Thought

    By Morgen Witzel

    For the past three thousand years people have been thinking about the problems of management. This book shows how thinking about management has evolved and changed. It shows how changing social, political and technological forces have challenged people to think about management in new ways, and how...

    Published December 19th 2011 by Routledge
15. Rosabeth M. Kanter

    By Michael Wood

    Edited by John C. Wood

    Series: Critical Evaluations in Business and Management

    Rosabeth Moss Kanter (b. 1943)—described by The Economist as ‘one of the few women in recent years to have achieved genuine guru status’—introduced the concept of ‘empowerment’ into management thought. She is the subject of this new collection from Routledge’s acclaimed Critical Evaluations in...

    Published December 12th 2011 by Routledge
16. Evolution of Management Thought

    Edited by Arthur Bedeian

    Series: Critical Perspectives on Business and Management

    Because it is difficult—if not impossible—to understand contemporary management theory and practice without an appreciation of its historical heritage, this new one-stop reference resource from Routledge allows students and researchers readily to access the subject’s major works to enable a full...

    Published October 3rd 2011 by Routledge
17. Business History

    Complexities and Comparisons

    By Franco Amatori, Andrea Colli

    This major new textbook on business history brings together the expertise of two internationally renowned authors to provide a thorough overview of the developments in business – from just before the industrial revolution right up to the present day. Business History is global in scope and looks at...

    Published May 24th 2011 by Routledge
18. Reappraising State-Owned Enterprise

    A Comparison of the UK and Italy

    Edited by Franco Amatori, Robert Millward, Pier Angelo Toninelli

    Series: Routledge International Studies in Business History

    After a quarter century of almost general condemnation and rebuttal of the entire nationalization experience, it appears that there are second thoughts about governmental direct intervention in the economy. Reappraising State-Owned Enterprise deals with a topic often undervalued in the past decade...

    Published March 27th 2011 by Routledge
19. Narrating the Rise of Big Business in the USA

    How economists explain standard oil and Wal-Mart

    By Anne Mayhew

    Series: Routledge International Studies in Business History

    "This is a story about stories and specifically about some of the stories that Americans have told themselves about corporate economic power." In this book, Anne Mayhew focuses on the stories surrounding the creation of Standard Oil and Wal-Mart and their founders , John D. Rockefeller and Sam...

    Published January 26th 2011 by Routledge
20. Business History and International Business

    Edited by Peter Buckley

    Business History and International Business are cognate subjects. There are few, if any, studies of international business that do not require a proper study of context. International business decision making must be made relevant by a considered evaluation of the circumstances surrounding that...

    Published November 11th 2010 by Routledge