Enterprise and Society -- Table of Contents (March 2006, 7 [1])

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Contents: March 2006, Volume 7, Number 1   [Index by Author]

       Guest Editors' Introduction

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Guest Editors' Introduction:

Kathryn Ibata-Arens, Julian Dierkes, and Dirk Zorn: Theoretical Introduction to the Special Issue on the Embedded Enterprise

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Articles:

Dario Gaggio: Pyramids of Trust: Social Embeddedness and Political Culture in Two Italian Gold Jewelry Districts

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Kun-Chin Lin: Disembedding Socialist Firms as a Statist Project: Restructuring the Chinese Oil Industry, 1997–2002

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Huei-Ying Kuo: Rescuing Businesses through Transnationalism: Embedded Chinese Enterprise and Nationalist Activities in Singapore in the 1930s Great Depression

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Kathryn Ibata-Arens and Hiromichi Obayashi: Escaping the Japanese Pyramid: The Association of Small and Medium Sized Enterprise Entrepreneurs (SME Doyukai), 1947–1999

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Reviews:

Susan Ariel Aaronson: Ronald Seavoy. Origins and Growth of the Global Economy: From the Fifteenth Century Onward. Westport, Conn.: Praeger, 2003. 275 pp. ISBN 0-275-97912-1, $70.95.

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Michael Huberman: Douglas A. Farnie and David J. Jeremy, eds. The Fibre That Changed the World: The Cotton Industry in International Perspective, 1600–1990s. Oxford, U.K.: Oxford University Press, 2004. xxxiv + 614 pp. ISBN 0-19-925566-0, $185.00 (cloth).

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Peter Wardley: Geoffrey Jones. Multinationals and Global Capitalism: From the Nineteenth Century to the Twenty-First Century. New York: Oxford University Press, 2005. xi + 340 pp. ISBN 0-19-927209-3, $144.50 (cloth); ISBN 0-19-927210-7, $44.50 (paper).

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Michael J. Twomey: Alfred D. Chandler, Jr., and Bruce Mazlish, eds. Leviathans: Multinational Corporations and the New Global History. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2005. xiii + 249 pp. ISBN 0-521-84061-9, $65.00 (cloth); ISBN 0-521-54993-0, $22.99 (paper).

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Roger Middleton: David Reisman. Schumpeter’s Market: Enterprise and Evolution. Northampton, Mass.: Edward Elgar, 2004. vii + 294 pp. ISBN 1-84376-164-5, $120.00.

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Kwan Man Bun: Peter Z. Grossman, ed. How Cartels Endure and How They Fail: Studies of Industrial Collusion. Cheltenham, U.K., and Northampton, Mass.: Edward Elgar, 2004. vi + 324 pp. ISBN 1-85898-830-6, $115.00.

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Daniel Friel: Kathleen Thelen. How Institutions Evolve: The Political Economy of Skills in Germany, Britain, the United States, and Japan. Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University Press, 2004. xv + 333 pp. ISBN 0-521-83768-5, $75.00 (cloth); ISBN 0-521-54674-5, $29.99 (paper).

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Daniel Jacoby: David Mitch, John Brown, and Marco H. D. van Leeuwen, eds. Origins of the Modern Career. Burlington, Vt.: Ashgate, 2004. xiii + 342 pp. ISBN 0-7546-3496-5, $99.95.

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Gary Herrigel: Sanford Jacoby. The Embedded Corporation: Corporate Governance and Employment Relations in Japan and the United States. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2004. xi + 216 pp. ISBN 0-691-11999-6, $35.00.

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Patrick Clawson: Clement M. Henry and Rodney Wilson, eds. The Politics of Islamic Finance. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2004. vi + 307 pp. ISBN 0-7486-1837-6, $30.00 (paper).

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Jules R. Benjamin: Stuart B. Schwartz. Tropical Babylons: Sugar and the Making of the Atlantic World, 1450–1680. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2004. xiii + 347 pp. ISBN 0-8078-2875-0, $59.95 (cloth); ISBN 0-8078-5538-3, $22.50 (paper).

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Jaime de Melo: Daniel Lederman. The Political Economy of Protection: Theory and the Chilean Experience. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 2005. ix + 191 pp. ISBN 0-8047-4917-5, $55.00.

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Jukka Gronow: Julie Hessler. A Social History of Soviet Trade: Trade Policy, Retail Practices, and Consumption, 1917–1953. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2004. xvi + 366 pp. ISBN 0-691-11492-7, $39.50.

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Stephen Crowley: Paul J. Kubicek. Organized Labor in Postcommunist States: From Solidarity to Infirmity. Pittsburgh, Pa.: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2004. xiv + 256 pp. ISBN 0-8229-5856-2, $29.95 (paper).

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Marc W. Steinberg: Kevin Binfield. Writings of the Luddites. Baltimore, Md.: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2004. xxviii + 279 pp. ISBN 0-8018-7612-5, $49.95 (cloth).

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Andrew Jenkins: Anne Clendinning. Demons of Domesticity: Women and the English Gas Industry, 1889–1939. Burlington, Vt.: Ashgate, 2004. xvii + 352 pp. ISBN 0-7546-0692-9, $109.95 (cloth).

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Nicholas Alexander: Richard Coopey, Sean O’Connell, and Dilwyn Porter. Mail Order Retailing in Britain: A Business and Social History. New York: Oxford University Press, 2005. viii + 248 pp. ISBN 0-19-829650-9, $95.00 (cloth).

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Nuria Puig: Arjan van Rooij. Building Plants: Markets for Technology and Internal Capabilities in DSM’s Fertiliser Business, 1925–1970. Amsterdam, The Netherlands: Aksant Academic Publishers, 2004. 279 pp. ISBN 90-5260-138-0, $34.95 (paper).

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Franco Amatori: Harm G. Schröter. Americanization of the European Economy: A Compact Survey of American Economic Influence in Europe since the 1880s. Dordrecht, The Netherlands: Springer, 2005. xii + 268 pp. ISBN 1-4020-2884-9, ${euro}$ .84.53.

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Anne N. Greene: Thomas A. Kinney. The Carriage Trade: Making Horse-Drawn Vehicles in America. Baltimore, Md.: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2004. xi + 381 pp. ISBN 0-8018-7946-9, $49.95 (cloth).

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Bruce Sinclair: Andrew Dawson. Lives of the Philadelphia Engineers: Capital, Class, and Revolution, 1830–1890. Burlington, Vt.: Ashgate, 2004. xiii + 302 pp. ISBN 0-7546-3396-9, $94.95 (cloth).

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Marilyn Casto: William Faricy Condee. Coal and Culture: Opera Houses in Appalachia. Athens: Ohio University Press, 2005. xii + 210 pp. ISBN 0-8214-1588-3, $34.95 (cloth).

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Aaron W. Marrs: Robert G. Angevine. The Railroad and the State: War, Politics, and Technology in Nineteenth-Century America. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 2004. xvii + 351 pp. ISBN 0-8047-4239-1, $65.00 (cloth).

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Tanya Gogan: Amy G. Richter. Home on the Rails: Women, the Railroad, and the Rise of Public Domesticity. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2005. xiii + 272 pp. ISBN 0-8078-2926-9, $49.95 (cloth); ISBN 0-8078-5591-X, $19.95 (paper).

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Edie Sparks: David Leverenz. Paternalism Incorporated: Fables of American Fatherhood, 1865–1940. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 2003. x + 254 pp. ISBN 0-8014-4167-6, $39.95 (cloth).

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Eileen V. Wallis: Douglas Cazaux Sackman. Orange Empire: California and the Fruits of Eden. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2004. 401 pp. ISBN 0-520-23886-9, $45.00 (cloth).

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Tyler Priest: Paul Sabin. Crude Politics: The California Oil Market, 1900–1940. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2004. xx + 307 pp. ISBN 0-520-24198-3, $39.95 (cloth).

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Christine Rosen: Steve Lerner. Diamond: A Struggle for Environmental Justice in Louisiana’s Chemical Corridor. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2005. xiv + 344 pp. ISBN 0-262-12273-1, $27.95 (cloth).

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Elizabeth Fones-Wolf: Jarol B. Manheim. Biz-War and the Out-of-Power Elite: The Progressive-Left Attack on the Corporation. Mahwah, N.J.: Lawrence Erlbaum, 2004. xii + 216 pp. ISBN 0-8058-5068-6, $34.50 (cloth).

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