Corporate History category: 769 books
The End of Loyalty
The Rise and Fall of Good Jobs in America
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2017
Having a good, stable job used to be the bedrock of the American Dream. Not anymore.
In this richly detailed and eye-opening book, Rick Wartzman chronicles the erosion of the relationship between American companies and their workers. Through the stories of four major employers--General Motors,...
Say It and Live It
The 50 Corporate Mission Statements that Hit the Mark
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2011
Say It And Live It is the first collection of provocative, passionate, and intelligent corporate mission statements--the most powerful and popular managerial tool in business today. A corporate mission statement is the most dramatic presentation of a company's vision and its goal. No other document--annual...
Corporate Governance and Sustainability
Challenges for Theory and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2013
In recent years, as corporations and governments have increasingly been confronted with managing the expectations of a society newly alerted to the social and environmental risks of economic development, recognition is dawning that achieving a sustainable world is dependent upon the democratic management...
Faith and Fortune
The Quiet Revolution to Reform American Business
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2004
Lately the headlines have delivered dispiriting news about wrongdoing and scandal in business. But behind the headlines lies a surprising, untold story: Corporate America is changing for the better. Faith and Fortune tells the stories of the extraordinary people who are leading the way and the admirable...
Ownership Structure and Corporate Performance
A Panel Data Analysis for the German Market
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2016
The book sheds new light on the relation between equity ownership and corporate performance. Empirical studies presented in this book are based on a large panel data set and model the impact of concentrated ownership on performance, with nonlinear effect shapes being estimated through cubic splines....
by Ituah Imhanze Lim, Aclarb, O.Y. Abdul-hamid Ph.D
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2017
The bi-annual Journal of Corporate Governance contains well-researched articles on the control factor in the separation of ownership and management of companies operating within groups, Board practices in the Nigerian banking industry, Board processes and effectiveness, shareholder associations, corporate...
by Peter Peverelli
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2006
This book represents the first study of economic restructuring in reform era China to apply the concepts of identity and corporate space; notions that have become increasingly relevant as foreign invested and Chinese ventures face complex operational and societal issues in the wake of globalization.
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Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2016
The Routledge Companion to Business History is a definitive work of reference, and authoritative, international source on business history. Compiled by leading scholars in the field, it offers both researchers and students an introduction and overview of current scholarship in this expanding discipline.
Drawing...
Adventures in Innovation
Inside the Rise and Fall of Nortel
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2014
In 1966, recent art college grad, John F. Tyson, became the first industrial designer hired by Northern Electric, Bell Canada’s modest manufacturing arm. In 2000, he retired as vice-president of advanced technology for Nortel, then the world’s leading supplier of communications networks.
Adventures...
Fortune's Fool
Edgar Bronfman, Jr., Warner Music, and an Industry in Crisis
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2010
In 1999, when Napster made music available free online, the music industry found itself in a fight for its life. A decade later, the most important and misunderstood story—and the one with the greatest implications for both music lovers and media companies—is how the music industry has failed...
Revolt in the Boardroom
The New Rules of Power in Corporate America
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009
Throughout the 20th century, American corporations were governed by autocratic, almost unaccountable chief executives. Their word was law and the only check on their power was a board of directors composed of their friends and allies.
Then, in a stunning reversal, a momentous series of firings...
The Big Lie
Spying, Scandal, and Ethical Collapse at Hewlett Packard
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2010
Hewlett Packard is an American icon, the largest information technology company in the world. The bedrock of Silicon Valley, it employs more than 300,000 people, its market capitalization is in excess of 100 billion and its products are in almost every home in the country where there is a printer...
by Lynn M. Homan, Thomas Reilly
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2000
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2000
Pan American World Airways could be considered a corporate Cinderella�a rags-to-riches-and-back-again phenomenon. From its founding in 1927 and its relatively obscure inauguration as a mail carrier on a 90-mile mail run from Florida�s Key West to Cuba, Pan Am�s route system grew to span the...
Guaranteed Pure
The Moody Bible Institute, Business, and the Making of Modern Evangelicalism
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2015
American evangelicalism has long walked hand in hand with modern consumer capitalism. Timothy Gloege shows us why, through an engaging story about God and big business at the Moody Bible Institute. Founded in Chicago by shoe-salesman-turned-revivalist Dwight Lyman Moody in 1889, the institute became...