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Business History around the World This book offers the first in-depth international survey of current research and debates in business history. Over the past two decades, enormous ad- vances have been made in writing the history of business enterprise and business systems. Historians are documenting and analyzing the evolution of a wide range of important companies and systems, their patterns of in- novation,production,anddistribution,theirfinancialaffairs,theirpolitical activities,andtheirsocialimpact.Thisvolumeisareferenceworkthatwillbe of immense value to historians, economists, management researchers, and othersconcernedtoaccessthelatestinsightsontheevolutionofbusiness throughouttheworld. Eachessayiswrittenbyaprominentauthoritywhoprovidesanup-to-date assessmentofthestateandsignificanceofresearchinhisorherarea.PartI debatestheidentityandparametersofthediscipline,followedinPartIIby wide-rangingsurveysofthebusinesshistoryliteratureintheUnitedStates, Europe,LatinAmerica,Japan,andtheChinese-speakingworld.PartIIIexam- ines international comparative research on multinationals, family business, andgovernmentrelations. Franco Amatori is Professor of Economic History at Bocconi University in Milan,Italy.HehaswrittenextensivelyonItalianbusinesshistory.Heedited, with Alfred Chandler and Takashi Hikino, Big Business and the Wealth of Nations(Cambridge,1997). Geoffrey Jones is Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School.Heistheauthororeditorofmorethantwentybooksinthefieldof businesshistoryandisthecoeditorofthequarterlyjournalBusinessHistory. COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVES IN BUSINESS HISTORY Atthedawnofthetwenty-firstcenturytheworldeconomyisinthemidst ofthemostprofoundtransformationsincetheindustrialrevolution.Firms, communications systems, and markets for products, services, labor, and currenciesareallbreakingoutofnationalboundaries.Businessenterprises todaymustnegotiateaglobalenvironmentinordertoinnovateandtocom- peteinwaysthatwillprotectorenhancetheirmarketshares.Atthesame time, they are finding it essential to understand the different perspectives growingoutoflocal,regional,andnationalexperienceswithbusinessand economicdevelopment.Thishasbecomeacrucialcompetitiveadvantageto companiesandavitalskillforthosewhostudythem.ComparativePerspec- tivesinBusinessHistoryexploresthesedevelopmentsinaseriesofvolumes thatdrawuponthebestworkofscholarsfromavarietyofnationswriting onthehistoryofenterprise,publicandprivate.Theseriesencouragesthe useofnewstylesofanalysisandseekstoenhanceunderstandingofmodern enterpriseanditssocialandpoliticalrelations,leaders,cultures,economic strategies,accomplishments,andfailures. SeriesEditors FrancoAmatori,BocconiUniversity LouisGalambos,TheJohnsHopkinsUniversity ManagingEditor MaryButlerDavies Sponsors AssociazionepergliStudiStoricisull’Impresa(ASSI),Milan IstitutodiStoriaEconomica,BocconiUniversity,Milan TheInstituteforAppliedEconomicsandStudyofBusinessEnterprise, TheJohnsHopkinsUniversity PreviouslyPublished TheRiseandFallofState-OwnedEnterpriseintheWesternWorld,editedby PierAngeloToninelli Business History around the World (cid:1) Edited by FRANCO AMATORI BocconiUniversity GEOFFREY JONES HarvardBusinessSchool Cambridge, New York, Melbourne, Madrid, Cape Town, Singapore, São Paulo Cambridge University Press The Edinburgh Building, Cambridge , United Kingdom Published in the United States of America by Cambridge University Press, New York www.cambridge.org Information on this title: www.cambridge.org/9780521821070 © Cambridge University Press 2003 This book is in copyright. Subject to statutory exception and to the provision of relevant collective licensing agreements, no reproduction of any part may take place without the written permission of Cambridge University Press. First published in print format 2003 - isbn-13 978-0-511-06182-0 eBook (NetLibrary) - isbn-10 0-511-06182-X eBook (NetLibrary) - isbn-13 978-0-521-82107-0 hardback - isbn-10 0-521-82107-X hardback Cambridge University Press has no responsibility for the persistence or accuracy of s for external or third-party internet websites referred to in this book, and does not guarantee that any content on such websites is, or will remain, accurate or appropriate. Contents Acknowledgments page xi ListofContributors xiii 1. Introduction 1 FrancoAmatoriandGeoffreyJones PART I. GENERAL ISSUES, OPEN QUESTIONS, CONTROVERSIES 2. IdentityandtheBoundariesofBusinessHistory:AnEssay onConsensusandCreativity 11 LouisGalambos 3. UnderstandingInnovativeEnterprise:Towardthe IntegrationofEconomicTheoryandBusinessHistory 31 WilliamLazonick 4. ProductiveAlternatives:Flexibility,Governance,and StrategicChoiceinIndustrialHistory 62 JonathanZeitlin vii viii Contents PART II. AREA PATTERNS 5. BusinessHistoryintheUnitedStatesattheEndofthe TwentiethCentury 83 WilliamJ.Hausman 6. BritishandDutchBusinessHistory 111 GeoffreyJonesandKeetieE.Sluyterman 7. ScandinavianBusinessHistoryattheEndofthe1990s:Its PriorDevelopment,PresentSituation,andFuture 146 Ha˚kanLindgren 8. BusinessHistoryinGerman-SpeakingStatesattheEnd oftheCentury:AchievementsandGaps 170 HarmG.Schro¨ter 9. BusinessHistoryinFrance 192 YoussefCassis 10. BusinessHistoryinItalyattheTurnoftheCentury 215 FrancoAmatoriandGiorgioBigatti 11. BusinessHistoryinSpain 232 AlbertCarreras,XavierTafunell,andEugenioTorres 12. BusinessHistoryinGreece:TheStateoftheArtand FutureProspects 255 MargaritaDritsas 13. TheStateofBusinessHistoryinJapan:Cross-National ComparisonsandInternationalRelations 271 AkiraKudoˆ 14. ChineseBusinessHistory:ItsDevelopment,Present Situation,andFutureDirection 298 Chi-KongLai 15. BusinessHistoryinLatinAmerica:IssuesandDebates 317 Mar´ıaIn´esBarbero PART III. COMPARATIVE BUSINESS HISTORY 16. FamilyFirmsinComparativePerspective 339 AndreaColliandMaryB.Rose 17. Multinationals 353 GeoffreyJones Contents ix 18. Business--GovernmentRelations:Beyond PerformanceIssues 372 MatthiasKipping 19. TheOpportunitiesforBusinessHistoryattheBeginning oftheTwenty-FirstCentury 394 AlfredD.Chandler,Jr. Index 407
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