Corporate History category: 769 books
Icarus in the Boardroom
The Fundamental Flaws in Corporate America and Where They Came From
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2005
Americans have always loved risktakers. Like the Icarus of ancient Greek lore, however, even the most talented entrepreneurs can overstep their bounds. All too often, the very qualities that make Icaran executives special-- self-confidence, visionary insight, and extreme competitiveness--spur them...
by Ralph Nader
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2011
In this groundbreaking pamphlet, based on testimony he delivered before Congress, Ralph Nader describes how corporations are picking our pockets, and what we can do to stop them.
While the United States continues to experience unprecedented cuts in social service programs and millions of Americans...
Corporate Conspiracies
How Wall Street Took Over Washington
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2017
From New York Times–bestselling authors Richard Belzer and David Wayne comes a hard look at the wrongs done to us all by big business in America.
Here is an explosive account of wrongful acts perpetrated, and the ensuing cover-ups inflicted upon us, by American corporations. The bestselling...
by Robert E. Wright
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2013
From bank bailouts and corporate scandals to the financial panic of 2008 and its lingering effects, corporate governance in America has been wracked by crises. Amid a weakening system of checks and balances in which corporate executives have little incentive to protect shareholder interests, U.S....
Two Centuries of Panic
A history of corporate collapses in Australia
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 1998
Two Centuries of Panic is a book of breathtaking energy and scope. Rich in sensation and scandal, it is the first history ever published of corporate collapses in Australia from the first bank closure in the 1820s through the four great recessions of the 1840s, 1890s, 1920s and 1970s to the downfall...
by Chenxia Shi
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2012
This book investigates the key factors shaping corporate governance in China and presents a sophisticated study of corporate governance in China from a comparative and historical perspective. Drawing on extensive corporate governance literature, this book articulates why path dependence theory is...
The Power of Corporate Networks
A Comparative and Historical Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2014
Corporate networks, the links between companies and their leaders, reflect a country’s economic organization and its corporate governance system. Most research on corporate networks focuses on individual countries or particular time periods, however, making fruitful comparisons over longer periods...
by Adam Winkler
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2018
A landmark exposé and “deeply engaging legal history” of one of the most successful, yet least known, civil rights movements in American history (Washington Post).
In a revelatory work praised as “excellent and timely” (New York Times Book Review, front page), Adam Winkler, author...
Boss Lady
How Three Women Entrepreneurs Built Successful Big Businesses in the Mid-Twentieth Century
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2017
Too often, depictions of women's rise in corporate America leave out the first generation of breakthrough women entrepreneurs. Here, Edith Sparks restores the careers of three pioneering businesswomen--Tillie Lewis (founder of Flotill Products), Olive Ann Beech (cofounder of Beech Aircraft), and Margaret...
by Natalia Yakovleva
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
Based on the concept of corporate social responsibility, this book analyses modern approaches adopted by mining companies that could minimise negative impacts of mining and enhance positive benefits to corporate stakeholders. Using a case study of two mining sectors (gold and diamond mining) the book...
Bosch
History of a Global Enterprise
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2015
Bosch is a company with a rich history. It stands for important trends of the modern world, such as the motorization of transport or the electrification of the household, and was one of the pioneers of globalization. Its founder Robert Bosch was as well known for his liberal views as he was for the...
by Navin M. Karmarkar
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2014
Young rebellious Nish joins “Revenge. Corp” unaware of the fact that his co-workers have resigned leaving behind enormous workload & a single female colleague in the team. Later on, more crisp to the situation added when a married man joins them and the interesting story of “compatibility” &...
by Jerry Feingold
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2018
They were untouchable. They were blue chip corporations, legends in world business and everyone believed they were indestructible: Those icons of industry would last forever. Or so we thought. Kodak, King of Hollywood and Everyman’s photo world. Who would have predicted their demise? Same with Blockbuster,...
The Tanning of America
How Hip-Hop Created a Culture That Rewrote the Rules of the New Economy
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2011
The business marketing genius at the forefront of today's entertainment marketing revolution helps corporate America get hip to today's new consumer-the tan generation - by learning from hip-hop and youth culture.
"He is the conduit between corporate America and rap and the streets-he...