Enterprise and Society

Editor's Introduction:

Kenneth Lipartito

Enterprise Soc 2004 5: 353-354; doi:10.1093/es/khh054 [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Symposium: Framing Business History:

Richard N. Langlois

Chandler in a Larger Frame: Markets, Transaction Costs, and Organizational Form in History
Enterprise Soc 2004 5: 355-375; doi:10.1093/es/khh055 [Abstract] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Naomi R. Lamoreaux, Daniel M. G. Raff, and Peter Temin

Against Whig History
Enterprise Soc 2004 5: 376-387; doi:10.1093/es/khh056 [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Charles F. Sabel and Jonathan Zeitlin

Neither Modularity nor Relational Contracting: Inter-Firm Collaboration in the New Economy
Enterprise Soc 2004 5: 388-403; doi:10.1093/es/khh057 [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Articles:

Ernie Englander and Allen Kaufman

The End of Managerial Ideology: From Corporate Social Responsibility to Corporate Social Indifference
Enterprise Soc 2004 5: 404-450; doi:10.1093/es/khh058 [Abstract] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Simon Ball

The German Octopus: The British Metal Corporation and the Next War, 1914–1939
Enterprise Soc 2004 5: 451-489; doi:10.1093/es/khh059 [Abstract] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Frans-Paul van der Putten

Corporate Governance and the Eclectic Paradigm: The Investment Motives of Philips in Taiwan in the 1960s
Enterprise Soc 2004 5: 490-526; doi:10.1093/es/khh060 [Abstract] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Reviews:

José L. García-Ruiz

Carmen Erro, ed. Historia Empresarial. Pasado, Presente y Retos de Futuro. Barcelona: Ariel Empresa, 2003. 403 pp. ISBN 84-344-4839-4, 20 (paper).
Enterprise Soc 2004 5: 527-528; doi:10.1093/es/khh061 [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

David Pollard

Karl Gerth. China Made: Consumer Culture and the Creation of the Nation. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press. 2003. xvi + 445 pp. ISBN 0-674-01214-3, $50.00/£32.95 (cloth).
Enterprise Soc 2004 5: 529-530; doi:10.1093/es/khh062 [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Prakash Kumar

Barbara Harriss-White. India Working: Essays on Society and Economy. Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University Press, 2003. xx + 316 pp. ISBN 0-521-80979-7, 45.00 (cloth); 0-521-00763-1, 16.99 (paper).
Enterprise Soc 2004 5: 531-532; doi:10.1093/es/khh063 [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Thomas Wieland

Jochen Streb. Staatliche Technologiepolitik und branchenübergreifender Wissenstransfer: Über die Ursachen der internationalen Innovationserfolge der deutschen Kunststoffindustrie im 20. Jahrhundert. Berlin: Akademie Verlag, 2003. 242 pp. ISBN 3-05-003873-X, 69.80 (cloth).
Enterprise Soc 2004 5: 533-534; doi:10.1093/es/khh064 [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Harm G. Schröter

Mario König. Interhandel: Die schweizerische Holding der IG Farben und ihre Metamorphosen – eine Affäre um Eigentum und Interessen (1910–1999). Zurich: Chronos, 2001. 412 pp. ISBN 3-0340-0602-0, 35.90 (paper).
Enterprise Soc 2004 5: 535-536; doi:10.1093/es/khh065 [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

John Coombs

Lawrence A. Peskin. Manufacturing Revolution: The Intellectual Origins of Early American Industry. Baltimore, Md.: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2003. xiii + 294 pp. ISBN 0-8018-7324-X, $49.95 (cloth).
Enterprise Soc 2004 5: 537-539; doi:10.1093/es/khh066 [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

John S. Nader

Angela Lakwete. Inventing the Cotton Gin: Machine and Myth in Antebellum America. Baltimore, Md.: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2003. viii + 232 pp. ISBN 0-8018-7394, $45.00 (cloth).
Enterprise Soc 2004 5: 539-541; doi:10.1093/es/khh067 [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Harvey Cohen

Philip Gura. C. F. Martin and His Guitars, 1796–1873. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2003. 352 pp. ISBN 0-8078-2801-7, $45.00 (cloth).
Enterprise Soc 2004 5: 541-543; doi:10.1093/es/khh068 [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Colin Divall

Richard Saunders, Jr. Main Lines: Rebirth of the North American Railroads, 1970–2002. DeKalb: Northern Illinois University Press, 2003. xxiv + 436 pp. ISBN 0-87580-316-4, $49.95 (cloth).
Enterprise Soc 2004 5: 543-545; doi:10.1093/es/khh069 [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Albert Churella

Robert E. Mohowski. The New York, Susquehanna & Western Railroad. Baltimore, Md.: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2003. xix + 205 pp. ISBN 0-8018-7222-7, $34.95 (cloth).
Enterprise Soc 2004 5: 545-547; doi:10.1093/es/khh070 [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Julie Kimmel

John Alberti. The Working Life. New York: Pearson Longman, 2004. xxii + 501 pp. ISBN 0-321-09422-0, $44.33 (paper).
Enterprise Soc 2004 5: 548-549; doi:10.1093/es/khh071 [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Dalit Baranoff

Guy Stuart. Discriminating Risk: The U.S. Mortgage Lending Industry in the Twentieth Century. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 2003. xi + 248 pp. ISBN 0-8014-4066-1, $39.95 (cloth).
Enterprise Soc 2004 5: 550-551; doi:10.1093/es/khh072 [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Scott Gabriel Knowles

Mark Tebeau. Eating Smoke: Fire in Urban America, 1800–1950. Baltimore, Md.: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2003. xi + 425 pp. ISBN 0-8018-6791-6, $49.95 (cloth).
Enterprise Soc 2004 5: 551-554; doi:10.1093/es/khh073 [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Terence Kehoe

Joel A. Tarr, ed. Devastation and Renewal: An Environmental History of Pittsburgh and Its Region. Pittsburgh, Pa.: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2003. viii + 281 pp. ISBN 0-8229-4156-2, $32.00 (cloth).
Enterprise Soc 2004 5: 554-556; doi:10.1093/es/khh074 [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Brad Jackson

James Hoopes. False Prophets: The Gurus Who Created Modern Management and Why Their Ideas Are Bad for Business Today. Cambridge, Mass.: Perseus Publishing, 2003. xxxii + 320 pp. ISBN 0-7382-0798-5, $27.50 (cloth).
Enterprise Soc 2004 5: 556-558; doi:10.1093/es/khh075 [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

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