Enterprise and Society

Editor's Introduction:

William J. Hausman

Enterprise Soc 2001 2: 631; doi:10.1093/es/2.4.631 [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Presidential Address:

Naomi R. Lamoreaux

Reframing the Past: Thoughts about Business Leadership and Decision Making under Uncertainty
Enterprise Soc 2001 2: 632-659; doi:10.1093/es/2.4.632 [Abstract] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Dissertation Summaries:

Jennifer Klein

Managing Security: The Business of American Social Policy, 1910–1960
Enterprise Soc 2001 2: 660-665; doi:10.1093/es/2.4.660 [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Christophe Lécuyer

Making Silicon Valley: Engineering Culture, Innovation, and Industrial Growth, 1930–1970
Enterprise Soc 2001 2: 666-672; doi:10.1093/es/2.4.666 [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Christopher D. McKenna

The World's Newest Profession: Management Consulting in the Twentieth Century
Enterprise Soc 2001 2: 673-679; doi:10.1093/es/2.4.673 [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Andrew Robertson

Mobilizing for War, Engineering the Peace: The State, the Shop Floor, and the Engineer in Japan, 1935–1960
Enterprise Soc 2001 2: 680-686; doi:10.1093/es/2.4.680 [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Articles:

Mary A. Yeager

Mavericks and Mavens of Business History: Miriam Beard and Henrietta Larson
Enterprise Soc 2001 2: 687-768; doi:10.1093/es/2.4.687 [Abstract] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Abstracts of 2001 Conference Papers:

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Reviews:

Pamela O. Long

John Block Friedman and Kristen Mossler Figg, eds. Trade, Travel, and Exploration in the Middle Ages: An Encyclopedia. New York: Garland Publishing, 2000. xxxix + 715 pp. ISBN 0-8153-2003-5, $135.00
Enterprise Soc 2001 2: 809-811; doi:10.1093/es/2.4.809 [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

David Morton

JoAnne Yates and John Van Maanen, eds. Information Technology and Organizational Transformation: History, Rhetoric, and Practice. Thousand Oaks, Calif.: Sage Publications, 2001. xvi + 367 pp. ISBN 0-7619-2301-2, $59.95
Enterprise Soc 2001 2: 811-813; doi:10.1093/es/2.4.811 [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Gail D. Triner

Oscar Ugarteche. The False Dilemma—Globalization: Opportunity or Threat. London: Zed Books, 2000. xvi + 240pp. ISBN 1-85649-689-9, $65.00 (cloth); 1-85649-690-2, $22.50 (paper)
Enterprise Soc 2001 2: 813-815; doi:10.1093/es/2.4.813 [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Richard Coopey

Linsu Kim and Richard R. Nelson, eds. Technology, Learning and Innovation: Experiences of Newly Industrialising Economies. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2000. x + 377 pp. ISBN 0-52-7003-3, $64.95 (cloth); 0-521-77987-1, $22.95 (paper); John A. Mathews and Dong-Sung Cho. Tiger Technology: The Creation of a Semiconductor Industry in East Asia. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2000. xxiii + 389 pp. ISBN 0-521-66269-9, $54.95.
Enterprise Soc 2001 2: 816-819; doi:10.1093/es/2.4.816 [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Robert G. Ferguson

David G. McKendrick, Richard F. Doner, and Stephan Haggard. From Silicon Valley to Singapore: Location and Competitive Advantage in the Hard Disk Drive Industry. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 2000. xvi + 351 pp. ISBN 0-8047-4152-2, $49.50 (cloth); 0-8047-4183-2, $22.95 (paper)
Enterprise Soc 2001 2: 819-821; doi:10.1093/es/2.4.819 [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Anne E. C. McCants

Richard Lachmann. Capitalists in Spite of Themselves: Elite Conflict and Economic Transitions in Early Modern Europe. New York: Oxford University Press, 2000. viii + 314 pp. ISBN 0-19-507568-4, $49.95
Enterprise Soc 2001 2: 821-823; doi:10.1093/es/2.4.821 [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Geoffrey Channon

Alfred C. Mierzejewski. The Most Valuable Asset of the Reich: A History of the German National Railway, Volume 2: 1933–1945. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2000. xxi + 280 pp. ISBN 0-8078-2574-3, $45.00
Enterprise Soc 2001 2: 823-825; doi:10.1093/es/2.4.823 [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Martina Hessler

Raymond G. Stokes. Constructing Socialism: Technology and Change in East Germany, 1945–1990. Baltimore, Md.: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2000. iii + 260 pp. ISBN 0-8018-6391-0, $42.50
Enterprise Soc 2001 2: 825-827; doi:10.1093/es/2.4.825 [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

John Perkins

Allan M. Williams and Vladimir Balá. Tourism in Transition: Economic Change in Central Europe. London: I. B. Tauris Publishers, 2000. xi + 256 pp. ISBN 1-86064-578-X, $65.00 (cloth); 1-86064-579-8, $24.50 (paper)
Enterprise Soc 2001 2: 827-830; doi:10.1093/es/2.4.827 [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Anna Christina Ulfsparre

Mats Larsson. Bonniers—en mediefamilj: Förlag, konglomerat och mediekoncern, 1953–1990. [Bonniers—a Media Family: Publishing House, Conglomerate, and Media Group, 1953–1990]. Stockholm: Albert Bonniers Förlag, 2001. x + 416 pp. ISBN 91-0-057541-0, 278 Kr
Enterprise Soc 2001 2: 830-832; doi:10.1093/es/2.4.830 [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Tom Dicke

Nancy Koehn. Brand New: How Entrepreneurs Earned Consumers' Trust From Wedgwood to Dell. Boston, Mass.: Harvard Business School Press, 2001. 469 pp. ISBN 1-57851-221-2, $39.95
Enterprise Soc 2001 2: 832-834; doi:10.1093/es/2.4.832 [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Sean Adams

Edward J. Balleisen. Navigating Failure: Bankruptcy and Commercial Society in Antebellum America. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2001. xv + 322 pp. ISBN 0-8078-2600-6, $49.95 (cloth); 0-8078-4916-2, $18.95 (paper)
Enterprise Soc 2001 2: 834-836; doi:10.1093/es/2.4.834 [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Tom Mertes

Sven Beckert. The Monied Metropolis: New York City and the Consolidation of the American Bourgeoisie, 1850–1896. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2001. xvii + 492 pp. ISBN 0-521-79039-5, $34.95
Enterprise Soc 2001 2: 836-838; doi:10.1093/es/2.4.836 [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Peter Wardley

Howell John Harris. Bloodless Victories: The Rise and Fall of the Open Shop in the Philadelphia Metal Trades, 1890–1940. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2000. xvii + 456 pp. ISBN 0-521-58435-3, $44.94
Enterprise Soc 2001 2: 839-841; doi:10.1093/es/2.4.839 [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Regina Lee Blaszczyk

Nancy E. Owen. Rookwood and the Industry of Art: Women, Culture, and Commerce, 1880–1913. Athens: Ohio University Press, 2001. xiv + 335 pp. ISBN 0-8214-1337-6, $49.95 (cloth); 0-8214-1338-4, $24.95 (paper)
Enterprise Soc 2001 2: 842-844; doi:10.1093/es/2.4.842 [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

David Kirsch

Robert F. Freeland. The Struggle for Control of the Modern Corporation: Organizational Change at General Motors, 1924–1970. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2001. xvii + 364 pp. ISBN 0-521-63034-7, $59.95
Enterprise Soc 2001 2: 844-847; doi:10.1093/es/2.4.844 [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

John L. Neufeld

Richard F. Hirsh. Power Loss: The Origins of Deregulation and Restructuring in the American Electric Utility System. Cambridge, Mass.: The MIT Press, 1999. x + 406 pp. ISBN 0-262-08273-X, $50.00
Enterprise Soc 2001 2: 847-850; doi:10.1093/es/2.4.847 [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Andrew W. Cohen

David Brian Robertson. Capital, Labor, & State: The Battle for American Labor Markets from the Civil War to the New Deal. Lanham, Md.: Rowman & Little-field, 2000. xxii + 296 pp. ISBN 0-8476-9728-2, $75.00 (cloth); 0-8476-9729-0, $22.95 (paper)
Enterprise Soc 2001 2: 850-852; doi:10.1093/es/2.4.850 [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Howard R. Stanger

William Millikan. A Union Against Unions: The Minneapolis Citizens Alliance and Its Fight Against Organized Labor, 1903–1947. St. Paul: Minnesota Historical Society Press, 2001. xxiii + 488 pp. ISBN 0-87351-398-3, $34.95
Enterprise Soc 2001 2: 852-855; doi:10.1093/es/2.4.852 [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Pamela Laird

Sharon Beder. Selling the Work Ethic: From Puritan Pulpit to Corporate PR. London: Zed Books, 2001. viii + 292 pp. ISBN 1-85649-884-0, $65.95 (cloth); 1-85649-885-9, $25.00 (paper)
Enterprise Soc 2001 2: 855-857; doi:10.1093/es/2.4.855 [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

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