Enterprise and Society Advance Access originally published online on January 4, 2006
Enterprise and Society 2006 7(1):199-201; doi:10.1093/es/khj023
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Published by Oxford University Press 2006.
Arjan van Rooij. Building Plants: Markets for Technology and Internal Capabilities in DSMs Fertiliser Business, 19251970. Amsterdam, The Netherlands: Aksant Academic Publishers, 2004. 279 pp. ISBN 90-5260-138-0, $34.95 (paper).
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In spite of the central role that specialized engineering firms (firms that focus on the design and construction of industrial plants) have been playing since the end of World War II as makers and traders of the latest technology in many sectors throughout the world, historians have largely neglected them. For just for this reason, we should welcome this book by Arjan van Rooij, whose main concern is precisely the historical contribution of such firms
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