Enterprise and Society

Articles:

Christopher James Tassava

Multiples of Six: The Six Companies and West Coast Industrialization, 1930–1945
Enterprise Soc 2003 4: 1-27; doi:10.1093/es/4.1.1 [Abstract] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Andrea Colli, Paloma Fernández Pérez, and Mary B. Rose

National Determinants of Family Firm Development? Family Firms in Britain, Spain, and Italy in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries
Enterprise Soc 2003 4: 28-64; doi:10.1093/es/4.1.28 [Abstract] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Kees Boersma

Tensions within an Industrial Research Laboratory: The Philips Laboratory's X-Ray Department between the Wars
Enterprise Soc 2003 4: 65-98; doi:10.1093/es/4.1.65 [Abstract] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Carol Matheson Connell

Jardine Matheson & Company: The Role of External Organization in a Nineteenth-Century Trading Firm
Enterprise Soc 2003 4: 99-138; doi:10.1093/es/4.1.99 [Abstract] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Reviews:

Roger Middleton

John Ravenhill. APEC and the Construction of Pacific Rim Regionalism. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2001. xii + 294 pp. ISBN 0-521-66094-7, $70.00 (cloth); 0-521-66797-6, $25.00 (paper)
Enterprise Soc 2003 4: 139-141; doi:10.1093/es/4.1.139 [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Michael French

George Symeonidis. The Effects of Competition: Cartel Policy and the Evolution of Strategy and Structure in British Industry. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2002. x + 542 pp. ISBN 0-262-19468-6, $55.00
Enterprise Soc 2003 4: 141-143; doi:10.1093/es/4.1.141 [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Alfred C. Mierzejewski

T. R. Gourvish. British Rail 1974–97: From Integration to Privatisation. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002. xxiv + 705 pp. ISBN 0-19-925005-7, $60.00
Enterprise Soc 2003 4: 143-145; doi:10.1093/es/4.1.143 [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Ludovic Cailluet

Delphine Gardey. La dactylographe et l'expéditionnaire: Histoire des employés de bureau, 1890–1930. Paris: Editions Belin, 2001. 335 pp. ISBN 2-7011-3045-X, €19.00; Yves Cohen. Organiser à l'aube du taylorisme: La pratique d'Ernest Mattern chez Peugeot, 1906–1919. Besançon, France: Presses Universitaires Franc-Comtoises, 2001. 490 pp. ISBN 2-84627-041-4, €29.00
Enterprise Soc 2003 4: 145-147; doi:10.1093/es/4.1.145 [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Roy Church

Stephen L. Harp. Marketing Michelin: Advertising and Cultural Identity in Twentieth-Century France. Baltimore, Md.: John Hopkins University Press, 2001. xiii + 356 pp. ISBN 0-8018-6651-0, $39.95
Enterprise Soc 2003 4: 148-149; doi:10.1093/es/4.1.148 [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Werner Bührer

Christian Kleinschmidt. Der produktive Blick: Wahrnehmung amerikanischer und japanischer Management- und Produktionsmethoden durch deutsche Unternehmer, 1950–1985. Berlin: Akademie Verlag, 2002. 453 pp. ISBN 3-05-003657-5, €64.80
Enterprise Soc 2003 4: 150-151; doi:10.1093/es/4.1.150 [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Mark Spoerer

Michael T. Allen. The Business of Genocide: The SS, Slave Labor, and the Concentration Camps. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2002. xii + 377 pp. ISBN 0-8078-2677-4, $39.95
Enterprise Soc 2003 4: 152-153; doi:10.1093/es/4.1.152 [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Jocelyn Wills

David Igler. Industrial Cowboys: Miller & Lux and the Transformation of the Far West, 1850–1920. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2001. xiv + 267 pp. ISBN 0-520-22658-5, $37.50
Enterprise Soc 2003 4: 154-156; doi:10.1093/es/4.1.154 [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Michael R. Adamson

Lee Scamehorn. High Altitude Energy: A History of Fossil Fuels in Colorado. Boulder: University Press of Colorado, 2002. xvi + 232 pp. ISBN 0-87081-661-6, $27.50
Enterprise Soc 2003 4: 156-157; doi:10.1093/es/4.1.156 [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Regina Lee Blaszczyk

Davis Dyer and Daniel Gross. The Generations of Corning: The Life and Times of a Global Corporation. New York: Oxford University Press, 2001. xx + 507 pp. ISBN 0-19-514095-8, $25.00
Enterprise Soc 2003 4: 158-160; doi:10.1093/es/4.1.158 [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Craig H. Roell

Diana Davids Olien and Roger M. Olien. Oil in Texas: The Gusher Age, 1895–1945. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2002. xi + 307 pp. ISBN 0-292-76056-6, $39.95
Enterprise Soc 2003 4: 160-162; doi:10.1093/es/4.1.160 [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Julie Kimmel

Nikki Mandell. The Corporation as Family: The Gendering of Corporate Welfare, 1890–1930. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2002. x + 208 pp. ISBN 0-8078-2685-5, $49.95 (cloth); 0-8078-5351-8, $19.95 (paper)
Enterprise Soc 2003 4: 162-164; doi:10.1093/es/4.1.162 [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Christiane Diehl Taylor

Samuel P. Black, Jr., and John Paul Rossi. Entrepreneurship and Innovation in Automobile Insurance: Sam P. Black, Jr., and the Rise of Erie Insurance, 1923–1961. New York: Routledge, 2001. xv + 358 pp. ISBN 0-8153-2915-6, $70.00
Enterprise Soc 2003 4: 164-166; doi:10.1093/es/4.1.164 [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Peter Rachleff

Stephen H. Norwood. Strikebreaking and Intimidation: Mercenaries and Masculinity in Twentieth-Century America. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2002. xii + 328 pp. ISBN 0-8078-2705-3, $59.95 (cloth); 0-8078-5373-9, $19.95 (paper)
Enterprise Soc 2003 4: 166-169; doi:10.1093/es/4.1.166 [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Louis P. Cain

Michael H. Best. The New Competitive Advantage: The Renewal of American Industry. New York: Oxford University Press, 2001. xvii + 286 pp. ISBN 0-19-829744-0, $65.00 (cloth); 0-19-829745-9, $21.95 (paper)
Enterprise Soc 2003 4: 169-171; doi:10.1093/es/4.1.169 [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Regina Lee Blaszczyk

Ann Satterthwaite. Going Shopping: Consumer Choices and Community Consequences. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 2001. 386 pp. ISBN 0-300-08421-8, $39.95
Enterprise Soc 2003 4: 171-173; doi:10.1093/es/4.1.171 [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Maceo Dailey

Theresa A. Hammond. A White-Collar Profession: African American Certified Public Accountants since 1921. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2002. xii + 216 pp. ISBN 0-8078-2708-8, $39.95 (cloth); 0-8078-5377-1, $16.95 (paper)
Enterprise Soc 2003 4: 173-175; doi:10.1093/es/4.1.173 [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Paul J. Miranti, Jr.

Robert J. Bricker and Gary J. Previts, eds. The Murphy-Kirk-Beresford Correspondence, 1982–1996: Commentary on the Development of Financial Standards. New York: JAI Press, 2001. x + 223 pp. ISBN 0-7623-0834-6, $85.00
Enterprise Soc 2003 4: 175-177; doi:10.1093/es/4.1.175 [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

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