Enterprise and Society

Articles:

David M. Hart

From "Ward of the State" to "Revolutionary Without a Movement": The Political Development of William C. Norris and Control Data Corporation, 1957–1986
Enterprise Soc 2005 6: 197-223; doi:10.1093/es/khi029 [Abstract] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Makoto Kasuya

Continuity and Change in the Employment and Promotion of Japanese White-Collar Employees: The Case of the House of Mitsui
Enterprise Soc 2005 6: 224-253; doi:10.1093/es/khi030 [Abstract] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Robert E. Weems, Jr. and Lewis A. Randolph

"The Right Man": James A. Jackson and the Origins of U.S. Government Interest in Black Business
Enterprise Soc 2005 6: 254-277; doi:10.1093/es/khi031 [Abstract] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Simon Phillips and Andrew Alexander

An Efficient Pursuit? Independent Shopkeeping in 1930s Britain
Enterprise Soc 2005 6: 278-304; doi:10.1093/es/khi032 [Abstract] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Reviews:

Morris L. Bian

Linsun Cheng. Banking in Modern China: Entrepreneurs, Professional Managers, and the Development of Chinese Banks, 1897–1937. Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University Press, 2003. xvi + 277 pp. ISBN 0-521-81142-2, $65.00 (cloth)
Enterprise Soc 2005 6: 305-308; doi:10.1093/es/khi033 [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Morris L. Bian

Zhaojin Ji. A History of Modern Shanghai Banking: The Rise and Decline of China’s Finance Capitalism. Armonk, N.Y.: M. E. Sharpe, 2003. viii + 325 pp. ISBN 0-7656-1002-7, $69.95 (cloth); 0-7656-1003-5, $25.95 (paper)
Enterprise Soc 2005 6: 305-308; doi:10.1093/es/khi033a [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Brian C. Phelan

Joseph Tobin, ed. Pikachu’s Global Adventure: The Rise and Fall of Pokémon. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2004. 299 pp. ISBN 0-8223-3250-7, $75.95 (cloth); 0-8223-3287-6, $21.95 (paper)
Enterprise Soc 2005 6: 309-311; doi:10.1093/es/khi034 [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Charles Jones

Richard Weiner. Race, Nation, and Market: Economic Culture in Porfirian Mexico. Tucson, Ariz.: University of Arizona Press, 2004. xi + 167 pp. ISBN 0-8165-2326-6, $39.95 (cloth)
Enterprise Soc 2005 6: 311-313; doi:10.1093/es/khi035 [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Robert L. Tignor

George E. Brooks. Eurafricans in Western Africa: Commerce, Social Status, Gender, and Religious Observance from the Sixteenth to the Eighteenth Century. Athens, Ohio: Ohio University Press, 2003. xxii + 335 pp. ISBN 0-8214-1485-2, $65.00 (cloth); 0-8214-1486-0, $26.95 (paper)
Enterprise Soc 2005 6: 313-315; doi:10.1093/es/khi036 [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Ioanna Pepelasis Minoglou

George Pagoulatos. Greece’s New Political Economy: State, Finance, and Growth from Postwar to EMU. Basingstoke, U.K.: Palgrave Macmillan, 2003. xvi + 271 pp. ISBN 0-333-75277-5, $69.95 (cloth)
Enterprise Soc 2005 6: 315-317; doi:10.1093/es/khi037 [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

John Smail

William J. Ashworth. Customs and Excise: Trade, Production, and Consumption in England, 1640–1845. Oxford, U.K.: Oxford University Press, 2003. xii+396 pp. ISBN 0-19-925921-6, $85.00 (cloth)
Enterprise Soc 2005 6: 317-319; doi:10.1093/es/khi038 [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Russell Douglass Jones

Michael Dawson. Selling British Columbia: Tourism and Consumer Culture, 1890–1970. Vancouver, Canada: University of British Columbia Press, 2004. xiv+274 pp. ISBN 0-7748-1054-8, $85.00 (cloth); 0-7748-1055-6, $39.95 (paper)
Enterprise Soc 2005 6: 320-321; doi:10.1093/es/khi039 [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

William R. Childs

Doron S. Ben-Atar. Trade Secrets: Intellectual Piracy and the Origins of American Industrial Power. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 2004. xxi + 281 pp. ISBN 030010006X, $38.00 (cloth)
Enterprise Soc 2005 6: 322-324; doi:10.1093/es/khi040 [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Shepherd W. McKinley

Harold S. Wilson. Confederate Industry: Manufacturers and Quartermasters in the Civil War. Jackson, Miss.: University Press of Mississippi, 2002. xxii+412 pp. ISBN 1-57806-462-7, $46.00 (cloth)
Enterprise Soc 2005 6: 324-326; doi:10.1093/es/khi041 [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Lynne Pierson Doti

Edward J. Kamholz, Jim Blain, and Gregory Kamholz. The Oregon-American Lumber Company: Ain’t No More. Stanford, Calif: Stanford University Press, 2003. xix + 362 pp. ISBN 0-8047-4481-5, $65.00 (cloth)
Enterprise Soc 2005 6: 326-328; doi:10.1093/es/khi042 [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Janet Greenlees

Jane Lancaster. Making Time: Lillian Moller Gilbreth—A Life Beyond "Cheaper by the Dozen." Boston: Northeastern University Press, 2004. xii + 415 pp. ISBN 1-55553-612-3, $36.00 (cloth)
Enterprise Soc 2005 6: 328-330; doi:10.1093/es/khi043 [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Evan Roberts

Daniel Thomas Cook. The Commodification of Childhood: The Children’s Clothing Industry and the Rise of the Child Consumer. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2004. x + 211 pp. ISBN 0-8223-3279-5, $74.95 (cloth); 0-8223-3268-X, $21.95 (paper)
Enterprise Soc 2005 6: 330-332; doi:10.1093/es/khi044 [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Rayvon Fouché

Bruce Sinclair, ed. Technology and the African American Experience: Needs and Opportunities for Study. Boston: Massachusetts Institute of Technology Press, 2004. ix + 237 pp. ISBN 0-262-19504-6, $35.00 (cloth)
Enterprise Soc 2005 6: 332-334; doi:10.1093/es/khi045 [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Jacqueline McGlade

Mira Wilkins. The History of Foreign Investment in the United States, 1914–1945. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2004. xxi + 980 pp. ISBN 0-674-0138-5, $95.00 (cloth)
Enterprise Soc 2005 6: 334-339; doi:10.1093/es/khi046 [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Regina Lee Blaszczyk

Sharon Zukin. Point of Purchase: How Shopping Changed American Culture. New York and London: Routledge, 2004. 325 pp. ISBN 0-415-94597-6, $27.95 (cloth); 0-415-95034-0, $18.95 (paper)
Enterprise Soc 2005 6: 339-341; doi:10.1093/es/khi047 [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Daniel Pope

Catherine Gudis. Buyways: Billboards, Automobiles, and the American Landscape. New York: Routledge, 2004. viii + 333 pp. ISBN 0-415-93454-0, $90.00 (cloth); 0-415-93455-9, $22.00 (paper)
Enterprise Soc 2005 6: 341-343; doi:10.1093/es/khi048 [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Wendy Cukier

Kathy M. Newman. Raio Active: Advertising and Consumer Activism, 1935–1947. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2004. xiii + 237 pp. ISBN 0-520-22372-1, $55.00 (cloth); 0-520-23590-8, $21.95 (paper)
Enterprise Soc 2005 6: 343-345; doi:10.1093/es/khi049 [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

JoAnne Yates

James W. Cortada. The Digital Hand: How Computers Changed the Work of American Manufacturing, Transportation, and Retail Industries. Oxford, U.K.: Oxford University Press, 2003. 512 pp. ISBN 0-19-516588-8, $24.95 (cloth)
Enterprise Soc 2005 6: 346-348; doi:10.1093/es/khi050 [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Christopher Newfield

David C. Mowery, Richard R. Nelson, Bhaven N. Sampat, and Arvids A. Ziedonis. Ivory Tower and Industrial Innovation: University-Industry Technology Transfer Before and After the Bayh-Dole Act. Palo Alto, Calif.: Stanford Business Books, 2004. xiv + 241 pp. ISBN 0-8047-4920-5, $39.95 (cloth)
Enterprise Soc 2005 6: 348-350; doi:10.1093/es/khi051 [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Thomas Lassman

Jefferson Cowie and Joseph Heathcott, eds. Beyond the Ruins: The Meanings of Deindustrialization. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 2003. xvi + 372 pp. ISBN 0-8014-8871-0, $24.95 (paper)
Enterprise Soc 2005 6: 350-353; doi:10.1093/es/khi052 [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Eric Guthey

Doug Henwood. After the New Economy. New York: New Press, 2003. ix + 269 pp. ISBN 1-56584-770-9, $24.95 (cloth)
Enterprise Soc 2005 6: 353-355; doi:10.1093/es/khi053 [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

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