Enterprise and Society

Guest Editor's Introduction:

Madeleine Zelin

Guest Editor’s Introduction
Enterprise Soc 2005 6: 357-363; doi:10.1093/es/khi054 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Articles:

Daniel J. Meissner

The Business of Survival: Competition and Cooperation in the Shanghai Flour Milling Industry
Enterprise Soc 2005 6: 364-394; doi:10.1093/es/khi055 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Kwan Man Bun

Managing Market, Hierarchy, and Network: The Jiuda Salt Industries, Ltd., 1917–1937
Enterprise Soc 2005 6: 395-418; doi:10.1093/es/khi056 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Ning Jennifer Chang

Vertical Integration, Business Diversification, and Firm Architecture: The Case of the China Egg Produce Company in Shanghai, 1923–1950
Enterprise Soc 2005 6: 419-451; doi:10.1093/es/khi057 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Brett Sheehan

Myth and Reality in Chinese Financial Cliques in 1936
Enterprise Soc 2005 6: 452-491; doi:10.1093/es/khi058 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Reviews:

Philip Scranton

Franco Amatori and Geoffrey Jones, eds. Business History around the World. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2003. xv + 425 pp. ISBN 0-521-82107-X, $65.00.
Enterprise Soc 2005 6: 492-495; doi:10.1093/es/khi059 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

David M. Hart

Frank Dobbin, ed. The New Economic Sociology: A Reader. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2004. vii + 565 pp. ISBN 0-691-04905-X, $65.00 (cloth); 0-691-04906-8, $27.95 (paper).
Enterprise Soc 2005 6: 495-497; doi:10.1093/es/khi060 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Michael D’Amato

Jack Goody. Capitalism and Modernity: The Great Debate. Cambridge, U.K.: Polity Press, 2004. vii + 200 pp. ISBN 0-7456-3190-8, $56.95 (cloth); 0-7456-3191-6, $21.95 (paper).
Enterprise Soc 2005 6: 497-499; doi:10.1093/es/khi061 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

David Morton

Richard Coopey, ed. Information and Technology Policy: An International History. New York: Oxford University Press, 2004. xvi + 346 pp. ISBN 0-19-924105-8, $99.50 (cloth).
Enterprise Soc 2005 6: 499-501; doi:10.1093/es/khi062 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Christopher Tassava

John Storey, ed. The Management of Innovation. 2 vols. Cheltenham, U.K.: Edward Elgar Publishing, 2004. xxxi + 734 pp. (vol. 1); ix + 570 pp. (vol. 2). ISBN 1-84376-429-6, $495.00 (cloth).
Enterprise Soc 2005 6: 501-504; doi:10.1093/es/khi063 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Garth A. Myers

Erik Gilbert. Dhows and the Colonial Economy of Zanzibar, 1860–1970. Athens, Ohio: Ohio University Press, 2004. xiii + 176 pp. ISBN 0-8214-1557-3, $49.95 (cloth); 0-8214-1558-1, $26.95 (paper).
Enterprise Soc 2005 6: 504-506; doi:10.1093/es/khi064 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Stephen L. Morgan

Elisabeth Köll. From Cotton Mill to Business Empire: The Emergence of Regional Enterprises in Modern China. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2004. xvi + 422 pp. ISBN 0-674-01394-8, $49.50 (cloth).
Enterprise Soc 2005 6: 506-508; doi:10.1093/es/khi065 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Marcelo Bucheli

Jorma Ahvenainen. The European Cable Companies in South America before the First World War. Helsinki, Finland: Academia Scientiarum Fennica, 2004. 427 pp. ISBN 951-41-0947-3, X35.00.
Enterprise Soc 2005 6: 508-510; doi:10.1093/es/khi066 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Carlos Dávila

Ben Ross Schneider. Business Politics and the State in Twentieth-Century Latin America. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2004. xix + 312 pp. ISBN 0-521-83651-4, $70.00 (cloth); 0-521-54500-5, $26.99 (paper).
Enterprise Soc 2005 6: 510-512; doi:10.1093/es/khi067 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Ian William Read

Marcelo Bucheli. Bananas and Business: The United Fruit Company in Colombia, 1899–2000. New York: New York University Press, 2005. xi + 241 pp. ISBN 0-8147-9934-5, $45.00 (cloth).
Enterprise Soc 2005 6: 512-514; doi:10.1093/es/khi068 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Hiroaki Kuromiya

Robert C. Allen. Farm to Factory: A Reinterpretation of the Soviet Industrial Revolution. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2003. xv + 301 pp. ISBN 0-691-00696-2, $45.00 (cloth).
Enterprise Soc 2005 6: 514-516; doi:10.1093/es/khi069 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Ferry de Goey

Jan Luiten van Zanden and Arthur van Riel. The Strictures of Inheritance: The Dutch Economy in the Nineteenth Century. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2004. xv + 377 pp. ISBN 0-691-11438-2, $55.00 (cloth).
Enterprise Soc 2005 6: 516-518; doi:10.1093/es/khi070 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Pier Angelo Toninelli

Gabriel Tortella, Alfonso Ballestero, and José Luis Díaz Fernández. Del monopolio al libre mercado: La historia de la industria petrolera española [From Monopoly to the Free Market: A History of the Spanish Oil Industry]. Madrid, Spain: LID Editorial Empresarial S.L., 2003. 632 pp. ISBN 8-488-71732-6, X23.08.
Enterprise Soc 2005 6: 519-520; doi:10.1093/es/khi071 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Richard A. Hawkins

Christopher Kobrak and Per H. Hansen, eds. European Business, Dictatorship, and Political Risk, 1920–1945. New York: Berghahn Books, 2004. xiv + 261 pp. ISBN 1-57181-629-1, $60.00.
Enterprise Soc 2005 6: 521-522; doi:10.1093/es/khi072 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Harm G. Schröter

Paul Erker. Vom nationalen zum globalen Wettbewerb: Die deutsche und amerikanische Reifenindustrie im 19. und 20. Jahrhundert [From National to Global Competition: The German and American Tire Industry during the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries]. 710 pp. Paderborn: Schöningh, 2005. ISBN 3-506-71788-X, X98.00.
Enterprise Soc 2005 6: 523-525; doi:10.1093/es/khi073 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Douglas R. Egerton

Robert H. Gudmestad. A Troublesome Commerce: The Transformation of the Interstate Slave Trade. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2003. xii + 246 pp. ISBN 0-8071-2884-8, $59.95 (cloth); 0-8071-2922-4, $21.95 (paper).
Enterprise Soc 2005 6: 525-527; doi:10.1093/es/khi074 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Lawrence A. Peskin

John Bezís-Selfa. Forging America: Ironworkers, Adventurers, and the Industrious Revolution. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 2004. xi + 279 pp. ISBN 0-8014-3993-0, $39.95 (cloth).
Enterprise Soc 2005 6: 527-529; doi:10.1093/es/khi075 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

David Grimsted

Helen Tangires. Public Markets and Civic Culture in Nineteenth-Century America. Baltimore, Md.: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2003. xiii + 263 pp. ISBN 0-8018-7133-6, $45.00 (cloth).
Enterprise Soc 2005 6: 529-531; doi:10.1093/es/khi076 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Jonathan Bean

Scott A. Sandage. Born Losers: A History of Failure in America. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2005. x + 362 pp. ISBN 0-674-01510-X, $35.00 (cloth).
Enterprise Soc 2005 6: 531-533; doi:10.1093/es/khi077 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Rob Schorman

Michael Zakim. Ready-Made Democracy: A History of Men’s Dress in the American Republic, 1760–1860. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2003. x + 296 pp. ISBN 0-226-97793-5, $30.00 (cloth).
Enterprise Soc 2005 6: 533-535; doi:10.1093/es/khi078 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Marlis Schweitzer

Rob Schorman. Selling Style: Clothing and Social Change at the Turn of the Century. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2003. 224 pp. ISBN 0-8122-3728-5, $35.00 (cloth).
Enterprise Soc 2005 6: 536-538; doi:10.1093/es/khi079 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

David Farber

Barry Shank. A Token of My Affection: Greeting Cards and American Business Culture. New York: Columbia University Press, 2004. xvii + 328 pp. ISBN 0-231-11878-3, $50.00 (cloth).
Enterprise Soc 2005 6: 538-540; doi:10.1093/es/khi080 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Stephanie Dyer

Sarah Elvins. Sales and Celebrations: Retailing and Regional Identity in Western New York State, 1920–1940. Athens, Ohio: Ohio University Press, 2004. 222 pp. ISBN 0-8214-1549-2, $42.95 (cloth).
Enterprise Soc 2005 6: 540-541; doi:10.1093/es/khi081 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Brian Phelan

Michael Augspurger. An Economy of Abundant Beauty: Fortune Magazine and Depression America. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 2004. viii + 292 pp. ISBN 0-8014-4204-4, $34.95 (cloth).
Enterprise Soc 2005 6: 542-544; doi:10.1093/es/khi082 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Albert Churella

H. Roger Grant. "Follow the Flag": A History of the Wabash Railroad Company. DeKalb: Northern Illinois University Press, 2004. xii + 291 pp. ISBN 0-87580-328-8, $49.95 (cloth).
Enterprise Soc 2005 6: 544-546; doi:10.1093/es/khi083 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Roger Horowitz

Donald D. Stull and Michael J. Broadway. Slaughterhouse Blues: The Meat and Poultry Industry in North America. Belmont, Calif.: Thomson/Wadsworth, 2004. xviii + 172 pp. ISBN 0-534-61303-9, $25.95 (paper).
Enterprise Soc 2005 6: 546-548; doi:10.1093/es/khi084 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Betsy Hunter Bradley

Glenn Adamson. Industrial Strength Design: How Brooks Stevens Shaped Your World. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2003. xi + 219 pp. ISBN 0-262-01207-3, $45.00 (cloth); 0-944110-81, $25.00 (paper).
Enterprise Soc 2005 6: 548-550; doi:10.1093/es/khi085 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Alexer Magoun

André Millard, ed. The Electric Guitar: A History of an American Icon. Baltimore, Md.: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2004. x + 215 pp. ISBN 0-8018-7862-4, $45.00 (cloth).
Enterprise Soc 2005 6: 550-552; doi:10.1093/es/khi086 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Louis P. Cain

Frank P. Jozsa, Jr. Sports Capitalism: The Foreign Business of American Professional Leagues. Aldershot, Hants, U.K., and Burlington, Vt.: Ashgate Publishing Limited, 2004. xiv + 316 pp. ISBN 0-7546-4185-6, $99.95 (cloth).
Enterprise Soc 2005 6: 552-554; doi:10.1093/es/khi087 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Declan O’Reilly

Peter H. Spitz, ed. The Chemical Industry at the Millennium: Maturity, Restructuring, and Globalization. Philadelphia, Pa.: Chemical Heritage Foundation, 2003. x + 387 pp. ISBN 0-941901-34-3, $45.00 (cloth).
Enterprise Soc 2005 6: 555-556; doi:10.1093/es/khi088 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Edwin J. Perkins

Roger Lowenstein. Origins of the Crash: The Great Bubble and Its Undoing. New York: Penguin, 2004. ix + 270 pp. ISBN 1-59420-003-3, $24.95 (cloth); 0-14-303-467-7, $15.00 (paper).
Enterprise Soc 2005 6: 557-558; doi:10.1093/es/khi089 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

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