Enterprise and Society Advance Access originally published online on February 2, 2007
Enterprise and Society 2007 8(1):194-196; doi:10.1093/es/khm012
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Keetie E. Sluyterman. Dutch Enterprise in the Twentieth Century: Business strategies in a Small Open Economy
Keetie E. Sluyterman. Dutch Enterprise in the Twentieth Century: Business strategies in a Small Open Economy. London and New York: Routledge, 2005. xii + 319 pp. ISBN 0-415-35027-1, $145.00 (cloth)
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Keetie Sluyterman's book is a prominent synthesis of the twentieth-century economic history of the Netherlands from a business history perspective with a main focus on the varying business strategies applied by Dutch businesses. Sluyterman demonstrates how business history can add the essential elements to our understanding.
Sluyterman organizes the book chronologically in four periods. The first period covers the years from 1895 to 1914, where the world economy
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