Corporate History category: 769 books
The Bank That Lived a Little
Barclays in the Age of the Very Free Market
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2018
Based on unparalleled access to those involved, and told with compelling pace and drama, The Bank that Lived a Little describes three decades of boardroom intrigue at one of Britain's biggest financial institutions. In a tale of feuds, grandiose dreams and a struggle for supremacy between rival strategies...
by Joosr
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2015
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Fumbling the Future
How Xerox Invented, Then Ignored, the First Personal Computer
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 1999
Ask consumers and users what names they associate with the multibillion dollar personal computer market, and they will answer IBM, Apple, Tandy, or Lotus. The more knowledgable of them will add the likes of Microsoft, Ashton-Tate, Compaq, and Borland. But no one will say Xerox. Fifteen years after...
Heart & Soul
Five American Companies That Are Making the World a Better Place
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2010
Inspiring, in-depth profiles of profitable businesses that put people first.
In an era when it sometimes seems that corporate greed and bad business practices are all too common, this book tells the stories of five companies that haven’t forgotten that treating customers and employees right...
Pretend We're Dead
Capitalist Monsters in American Pop Culture
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2006
In Pretend We’re Dead, Annalee Newitz argues that the slimy zombies and gore-soaked murderers who have stormed through American film and literature over the past century embody the violent contradictions of capitalism. Ravaged by overwork, alienated by corporate conformity, and mutilated by the...
Women of Vision
Nine Business Leaders in Conversation with Alam Srinivas
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2013
A 2012 McKinsey study found that women hold a mere 5 per cent of boardroom positions in Indian firms. If India has to emerge as a real economic superpower in the 21st century, she has to harness the growing women power, grant them a greater role in the nation-building process and chalk out a clear ballot-to-boardroom...
Driving Honda
Inside the World's Most Innovative Car Company
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2014
Since its birth as a motorcycle company in 1949, Honda has steadily grown into one of the world’s largest automakers and engine manufacturers, as well as one of the most beloved, most profitable, and most consistently innovative multinational corporations. What drives the company that keeps creating...
Managing Global Legal Systems
International Employment Regulation and Competitive Advantage
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2006
Presenting a framework for understanding the corporate strategy-public policy interface as it relates to human capital management, this unique text treats legal systems as factors that must be actively managed in the firm’s larger pursuit of international competitive advantage. It provides readers...
Working Knowledge
Employee Innovation and the Rise of Corporate Intellectual Property, 1800-1930
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2009
Skilled workers of the early nineteenth century enjoyed a degree of professional independence because workplace knowledge and technical skill were their "property," or at least their attribute. In most sectors of today's economy, however, it is a foundational and widely accepted truth that...
East-West Business Collaboration (Routledge Revivals)
The Challenge of Governance in Post-Socialist Enterprises
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2013
Corporate governance is an area of key importance for students of comparative management and international business. This is particularly relevant in analyses of the post-socialist economies of the East, where both governments and enterprises have undergone major structural transformation. This title...
by Martha Holoubek Fitzgerald
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2016
Once a main-street shopfront dispensing tonics and extracts, Morris & Dickson Co. now competes with major players in the pharmaceutical distribution industry. Since 1841 presents an in-depth case study of a family business that has weathered wars, fires, recessions, and the sudden death of four chief...
by Perry Holley
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2013
Learn how IBM has overcome its toughest challenges—and how you can replicate iconic company's success
Over the past 100 years, the IBM Corporation has survived several recessions and innumerable twists and turns in the global technology market. And even in an economy of global recession,...
by Lou Hebert
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2019
Toledo's history as a frontier town turned manufacturing powerhouse is well known. However, few know that it was once home to a champion racehorse that galloped into the record books. Many are unaware that East Toledo's verdant urban woodlands sprang from the work of just one man or that a local girl's...
Race on the Line
Gender, Labor, and Technology in the Bell System, 1880–1980
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2001
Race on the Line is the first book to address the convergence of race, gender, and technology in the telephone industry. Venus Green—a former Bell System employee and current labor historian—presents a hundred year history of telephone operators and their work processes, from the invention of...