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21. Management History

    Text and Cases

    By Morgen Witzel

    Management History is not simply a book about the history of business or even the history of management. The goal of this book is to demonstrate that despite the relative newness of management science as an academic subject, management has been around since ancient times. Through understanding...

    Published December 16th 2009 by Routledge
22. The Origins of Globalization

    By Karl Moore, David Charles Lewis

    Series: Routledge International Studies in Business History

    Origins of Globalization draws widely on ancient sources and modern economic theory to detail the concept of “known world” globalization, arguing that a mixed economy--similar in many respects to our own--existed in a variety of forms throughout the ancient world. ...

    Published April 19th 2009 by Routledge
23. International Business and National War Interests

    Unilever between Reich and empire, 1939-45

    By Ben Wubs

    Series: Routledge International Studies in Business History

    This book deals with the activities of the Anglo-Dutch multinational during the war. Given the various threats faced by Unilever during the Nazi period, Ben Wubs argues that it was not self evident that the company would survive the war. Based on research into company sources which were hitherto...

    Published June 10th 2008 by Routledge
24. Alfred D. Chandler: Critical Evaluation

    Edited by John C Wood, Michael C Wood

    Series: Critical Evaluations in Business and Management

    Alfred D. Chandler (1918–2007) was the founder of modern business history. He was a critical early influence on strategic management and is famous for the dictum that ‘structure follows strategy’. This two-volume collection, a new title in the Routledge Major Works series, Critical Evaluations in...

    Published December 23rd 2007 by Routledge
25. H. Igor Ansoff Critical Evaluations in Business and Management 2 vol

    Edited by John C Wood, Michael C Wood

    Series: Critical Evaluations in Business and Management

    The visionary theories of H. Igor Ansoff (1918–2002) on strategic business management have inspired worldwide acclaim. Called ‘the father of strategic management’ by Henry Mintzberg, he proposed that long-term profitability for a company results only from a commitment to understanding the political...

    Published June 27th 2007 by Routledge
26. The Transnational Politics of Corporate Governance Regulation

    Edited by Henk Overbeek, Bastiaan van Apeldoorn, Andreas Nölke

    Series: Routledge/RIPE Studies in Global Political Economy

    This ambitious volume explores the politics of recent changes in corporate governance regulation and the transnational forces driving the process. Corporate governance has in the 1990s become a catchphrase of the global business community. The Enron collapse and other recent corporate scandals, as...

    Published April 25th 2007 by Routledge
27. The Formative Period of American Capitalism

    A Materialist Interpretation

    By Daniel Gaido

    Series: Routledge International Studies in Business History

    Applying certain Marxist categories of analysis to the study of American history, the central thesis of this outstanding book is that the main peculiarity of American historical development was the almost direct transition from a colonial to an imperialist economy. Expertly dealing with such topics...

    Published July 5th 2006 by Routledge
28. Public Management: Old and New

    By Laurence E. Lynn, Jr.

    Offering much more than a purely theoretical or retrospective view of public management, this exciting text is an invaluable new addition to the field of public management. Putting the American model in perspective, it establishes the historical, theoretical, analytical, practical and future...

    Published June 21st 2006 by Routledge
29. Financialization and Strategy

    Narrative and Numbers

    By Julie Froud, Sukhdev Johal, Adam Leaver, Karel Williams

    Considering the recent impact of the capital market on corporate strategy, this text analyzes, through argument and supportive case studies, how pressures from the capital bull market of the 1990s and bear market of the early 2000s, have reshaped management action and calculation in large, publicly...

    Published February 1st 2006 by Routledge
30. Peter F. Drucker

    Edited by Michael C. Wood, John C. Wood

    Series: Critical Evaluations in Business and Management

    A polymath and prolific writer, Peter F. Drucker has published influential books across seven decades. Taking a humanistic approach to management, he emphasises that it is people who create business, which in turn means that they have a crucial role in modern society. This collection gathers...

    Published October 26th 2005 by Routledge