Enterprise and Society

Articles:

William J. Hausman

Editor's Introduction: The Philosophy and Practice of Enterprise & Society
Enterprise Soc 2001 2: 421-424; doi:10.1093/es/2.3.421 [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Maury Klein

Coming Full Circle: The Study of Big Business since 1950
Enterprise Soc 2001 2: 425-460; doi:10.1093/es/2.3.425 [Abstract] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Gerben Bakker

Stars and Stories: How Films Became Branded Products
Enterprise Soc 2001 2: 461-502; doi:10.1093/es/2.3.461 [Abstract] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Roy Church and Christine Clark

Product Development of Branded, Packaged Household Goods in Britain, 1870–1914: Colman's, Reckitt's, and Lever Brothers
Enterprise Soc 2001 2: 503-542; doi:10.1093/es/2.3.503 [Abstract] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Gordon Boyce

Multilateral Contracting in Australian Mining: The Development of Hamersley Iron, 1961–1966
Enterprise Soc 2001 2: 543-575; doi:10.1093/es/2.3.543 [Abstract] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Reviews:

Ben Fine

Israel M. Kirzner. The Driving Force of the Market: Essays in Austrian Economics. New York: Routledge, 2000. xii + 295 pp. ISBN 0-415-22823-9, $100.00. David Colander, ed. Complexity and the History of Economic Thought. New York: Routledge, 2000. xii + 249 pp. ISBN 0-415-13356-4, $90.00.
Enterprise Soc 2001 2: 576-578; doi:10.1093/es/2.3.576 [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Susan Strasser

Karen Tranberg Hansen. Salaula: The World of Secondhand Clothing and Zambia. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2000. xv + 298 pp. ISBN 0-226-31580-0, $52.50 (cloth); ISBN 0-226-31581-9, $22.50 (paper).
Enterprise Soc 2001 2: 579-580; doi:10.1093/es/2.3.579 [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Darwin H. Stapleton

Ronie Garcia-Johnson. Exporting Environmentalism: U.S. Multinational Chemical Corporations in Brazil and Mexico. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2000. xvi + 282 pp. ISBN 0-262-07200-9, $60.00 (cloth); ISBN 0-262-57136-6, $20.00 (paper).
Enterprise Soc 2001 2: 581-582; doi:10.1093/es/2.3.581 [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

David Pollard

Lynda S. Bell. One Industry, Two Chinas: Silk Filatures and Peasant-Family Production in Wuxi County, 1865–1937. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 1999. xvi + 291 pp. ISBN 0-8047-2998-0, $49.50.
Enterprise Soc 2001 2: 582-584; doi:10.1093/es/2.3.582 [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Mira Wilkins

Sherman Cochran. Encountering Chinese Networks: Western, Japanese, and Chinese Corporations in China, 1880–1937. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2000. xxii + 269 pp. ISBN 0-520-21625-3, $40.00.
Enterprise Soc 2001 2: 584-587; doi:10.1093/es/2.3.584 [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Edwin J. Perkins

Andrea Finkelstein. Harmony and the Balance: An Intellectual History of Seventeenth-Century English Economic Thought. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2000. 381 pp. ISBN 0-472-11143-4, $49.50.
Enterprise Soc 2001 2: 587-588; doi:10.1093/es/2.3.587 [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

John Smail

Keith Wrightson. Earthly Necessities: Economic Lives in Early Modern Britain. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 2000. xii + 372 pp. ISBN 0-300-08391-2, $35.00.
Enterprise Soc 2001 2: 588-590; doi:10.1093/es/2.3.588 [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Daryl M. Hafter

Luca Molà. The Silk Industry of Renaissance Venice. Baltimore, Md.: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2000. xix + 457 pp. ISBN 0-8018-6189-6, $48.00. Luca Molà, Reinhold C. Mueller, and Claudio Zanier, eds. Dal baco al drappo: La seta in Italia dal Medioevo al Seicento. Venezia: Fondazione Giorgio Cini, 2000. xiii + 568 pp. ISBN 88-317-7442-5, 80,000 ITL.
Enterprise Soc 2001 2: 590-593; doi:10.1093/es/2.3.590 [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Sydney Watts

Susan J. Terrio. Crafting the Culture and History of French Chocolate. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2000. xiii + 313 pp. ISBN 0-520-22125-7, $55.00 (cloth); 0-520-22126-5, $22.50 (paper).
Enterprise Soc 2001 2: 593-595; doi:10.1093/es/2.3.593 [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

John F. Wilson

Jean-Louis Barsoux. INSEAD: From Intuition to Institution. New York: Palgrave, 2000. xii + 249 pp. ISBN 0-312-23385-X, $69.95.
Enterprise Soc 2001 2: 595-597; doi:10.1093/es/2.3.595 [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Werner Bührer

Wolfgang König. Geschichte der Konsumgesellschaft. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2000. 509 pp. ISBN 3-515-07650-6, DM98.00.
Enterprise Soc 2001 2: 597-599; doi:10.1093/es/2.3.597 [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Dale L. Flesher

James P. Hawley and Andrew T. Williams. The Rise of Fiduciary Capitalism: How Institutional Investors Can Make Corporate America More Democratic. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2000. xix + 232 pp. ISBN 0-8122-3563-0, $47.50.
Enterprise Soc 2001 2: 599-601; doi:10.1093/es/2.3.599 [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Judith Stein

Robert M. Collins. More: The Politics of Economic Growth in Postwar America. New York: Oxford University Press, 2000. xi + 299 pp. ISBN 0-19-504646-3, $35.00.
Enterprise Soc 2001 2: 601-603; doi:10.1093/es/2.3.601 [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Michael N. Geselowitz

Agatha C. Hughes and Thomas P. Hughes, eds. Systems, Experts, and Computers: The Systems Approach in Management and Engineering, World War II and After. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2000. vi + 513 pp. ISBN 0-262-13363-6, $50.00. Miriam R. Levin, ed. Cultures of Control. Amsterdam: Harwood Academic Publishers, 2000. xx + 274 pp. ISBN 90-5823-012-0, $56.00 (cloth); ISBN 90-5823-013-9, $24.00 (paper).
Enterprise Soc 2001 2: 603-607; doi:10.1093/es/2.3.603 [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Sarah Leavitt

Nancy A. Walker. Shaping Our Mothers' World: American Women's Magazines. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2000. xvii + 257 pp. ISBN 1-57806-294-2, $45.00 (cloth); 1-57806-295-0, $18.00 (paper).
Enterprise Soc 2001 2: 607-609; doi:10.1093/es/2.3.607 [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Thomas Zeller

David A. Kirsch. The Electric Vehicle and the Burden of History. New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 2000. xiii + 291 pp. ISBN 0-8135-2808-9, $45.00 (cloth); 0-8135-2809-7, $20.00 (paper).
Enterprise Soc 2001 2: 609-611; doi:10.1093/es/2.3.609 [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Marc R. Sykes

Alison J. Clarke. Tupperware: The Promise of Plastic in 1950s America. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1999. x + 241 pp. ISBN 1-56098-827-4, $24.95.
Enterprise Soc 2001 2: 611-613; doi:10.1093/es/2.3.611 [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Jan Davidson

Margaret Walsh. Making Connections: The Long-Distance Bus Industry in the USA. Burlington, Vt.: Ashgate, 2000. xvii + 245 pp. ISBN 0-7546-0207-9, $74.95.
Enterprise Soc 2001 2: 613-615; doi:10.1093/es/2.3.613 [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

William R. Childs

Kathleen P. Chamberlain. Under Sacred Ground: A History of Navajo Oil, 1922–1982. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2000. xii + 177 pp. ISBN 0-8263-2043-0, $35.00.
Enterprise Soc 2001 2: 615-617; doi:10.1093/es/2.3.615 [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Thomas Heinrich

Jeffery M. Dorwart. The Philadelphia Navy Yard: From the Birth of the U.S. Navy to the Nuclear Age. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2000. vii + 271 pp. ISBN 0-8122-3575-4, $45.00.
Enterprise Soc 2001 2: 617-618; doi:10.1093/es/2.3.617 [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Glenn Bugos

Martin Kenney, ed. Understanding Silicon Valley: The Anatomy of an Entrepreneurial Region. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 2000. xvii + 285 pp. ISBN 0-8047-3733-9, $49.50 (cloth); 0-8047-3734-7, $24.95 (paper). Chong-Moon Lee, et al., eds. The Silicon Valley Edge: A Habitat for Innovation and Entrepreneurship. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 2000. xxiii + 424 pp. ISBN 0-8047-4062-3, $49.50 (cloth); 0-8047-4063-1, $19.95 (paper).
Enterprise Soc 2001 2: 619-622; doi:10.1093/es/2.3.619 [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Amy Bix

David Blanke. Sowing the American Dream: How Consumer Culture Took Root in the Rural Midwest. Athens: Ohio University Press, 2000. xiii + 282 pp. ISBN 0-8214-1347-3, $59.95 (cloth); ISBN 0-8214-1348-1, $21.95 (paper). Ronald R. Kline. Consumers in the Country: Technology and Social Change in Rural America. Baltimore, Md.: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2000. xii + 372 pp. ISBN 0-8018-6248-5, $39.95.
Enterprise Soc 2001 2: 622-626; doi:10.1093/es/2.3.622 [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Peter Rachleff

Wilson J. Warren. Struggling with "Iowa's Pride": :Labor Relations, Unionism, and Politics in the Rural Midwest since 1877. Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 2000. xv + 185 pp. ISBN 0-87745-712-3, $34.95 (cloth); 0-87745-713-1, $19.95 (paper). Dennis A. Deslippe. "Rights, Not Roses": Unions and the Rise of Working-Class Feminism, 1945–80. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2000. x + 259 pp. ISBN 0-252-02519-9, $49.95 (cloth); 0-252-06834-3, $21.95 (paper).
Enterprise Soc 2001 2: 626-630; doi:10.1093/es/2.3.626 [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

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