Big business and the wealth of nations

Abstract

Preface Part I. Overview: 1. Historical and comparative contours of big business Alfred D. Chandler, Jr 2. The large industrial enterprise and the dynamics of modern economic growth Franco Amatori Part II. National Experiences of Big Business Group 1. Prime Drivers in North America and Western Europe: 3. The United States: engines of economic growth in the capital-intensive and knowledge-intensive industries Takashi Hikino 4. Great Britain: big business, management, and competitiveness in the twentieth century Geoffrey Jones 5. Germany: competition abroad, cooperation at home, 1870-1990 Ulrich Wegenroth 6. Small European nations: cooperative capitalism in the twentieth century Harm G. Schroter Group 2. Followers in Western Europe: 7. France: the relatively slow development of big business in the twentieth century Patrick Fridenson 8. Italy: the tormented rise of organizational capabilities between government and families Albert Carreras 9. Spain: big manufacturing firms between state and market, 1917-90 Xavier Tafunell Group 3. Late Industrializers in East Asia and South America: 10. Japan: increasing organizational capabilities of large industrial enterprises, 1880s-1980s Hidemasa Morikawa 11. South Korea: enterprising groups and entrepreneurial government Alice H. Amsden 12. Argentina: industrial growth and enterprise organization, 1880s-1980s Maria Ines Barbero Group 4. Centrally-Planned Economies in Eastern Europe: 13. USSR: large enterprises - the functional disorder Andrei Yu Yudanov 14. Czechoslovakia: the halting pace to scope and scale Alice Teichova Part III. Economic and Institutional Environment of Big Business: 15. Organizational competences, size, and the wealth of nations: some comments from a comparative perspective Giovanni Dosi and Takashi Hikino 16. Big business and skill formation in the wealthiest nations: the organizational revolution in the twentieth century William Lazonick and Mary O'Sullivan 17. Government, big business, and the wealth of nations Thomas K. McCraw 18. Constructing big business: the cultural concept of the firm Jeffrey R. Fear.