Corporate History category: 769 books
by S. Jonathan Wiesen
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2003
In the aftermath of World War II and the Holocaust, West German industrialists faced a major crisis in their public image. With mounting revelations about the use of forced and slave labor, the "Aryanization" of Jewish property, and corporate profiteering under National Socialism, industrialists emerged...
by Brian S Silverman
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2002
This impressive book sees the author applying and extending the resource based view of the firm to explain and predict the strategy of corporate diversification.Technological Resources and the Logic of Corporate Diversification is an original and authoritative book that will be extremely useful to academics and students in such disciplines as busin
Unstoppable
The Emerging Left-Right Alliance to Dismantle the Corporate State
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2014
Ralph Nader has fought for over fifty years on behalf of American citizens against the reckless influence of corporations and their government patrons on our society. Now he ramps up the fight and makes a persuasive case that Americans are not powerless. In Unstoppable, he explores the emerging political...
The Factory in a Garden
A History of Corporate Landscapes from the Industrial to the Digital Age
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2017
When we think about Victorian factories, 'Dark Satanic Mills' might spring to mind - images of blackened buildings and exhausted, exploited workers struggling in unhealthy and ungodly conditions. But for some employees this image was far from the truth, and this is the subject of 'The Factory in a...
by Mark S. Mizruchi
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2013
Critics warn that corporate leaders have too much influence over American politics. Mark Mizruchi worries they exert too little. American CEOs have abdicated their civic responsibilities in helping the government address national challenges, with grave consequences for society. A sobering assessment of the dissolution of America’s business class.
Reset
Business and Society in the New Social Landscape
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2018
As consumers, our access to—and appetite for—information about what and how we buy continues to grow. Powered by social media, increasingly we look at the companies behind the products and are disappointed when their actions do not meet our expectations. With engaged citizens acting as 24/7 auditors...
Black Life in Corporate America
Swimming in the Mainstream
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2012
When it was published in 1982, Business Week called it a book "packed with insights that might otherwise remain hidden for years." The New York Times Book Review called it: "A thoroughly readable book of immediate interest to average readers as well as specialists in business administration, psychology...
by Rosa Chun, Rui Da Silva, Gary Davies
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2005
This unique book written by four world leaders in reputation research, presents the latest cutting-edge thinking on organizational improvement. It covers media management, crisis management, the use of logos and other aspects of corporate identity, and argues the case for reputation management as...
The Art of Corporate Success
The Story of Schlumberger
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2015
A revealing portrait of one of the world’s finest, yet most opaque, companies—and the quiet genius who made it thrive
Ken Auletta set out to locate one of the world’s most prosperous businesses and explain its formula for success. He searched for an enterprise with a vivid chief executive...
Wall Streeters
The Creators and Corruptors of American Finance
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2015
The 2008 financial collapse, the expansion of corporate and private wealth, the influence of money in politics—many of Wall Street's contemporary trends can be traced back to the work of fourteen critical figures who wrote, and occasionally broke, the rules of American finance.
Edward Morris...
The Taking of Getty Oil
Pennzoil, Texaco, and the Takeover Battle That Made History
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2017
A larger-than-life account of family, greed, and a courtroom showdown between Big Oil rivals from the New York Times–bestselling author of Private Empire.
Pulitzer Prize–winning author Steve Coll is renowned for “his ability to take complicated, significant business stories and turn them...
The Last of the Imperious Rich
Lehman Brothers, 1844-2008
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2010
The inspiration for the hit play The Lehman Trilogy
On September 11, 1844, Henry Lehman arrived in New York City on a boat from Germany. Soon after, he moved to Montgomery, Alabama, where he and his brother Emanuel established a modest cotton brokering firm that would come to be called Lehman...
Bloodsport
When Ruthless Dealmakers, Shrewd Ideologues, and Brawling Lawyers Toppled the Corporate Establishment
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2016
The epic battle of the fascinating, flawed figures behind America's deal culture and their fight over who controls and who benefits from the immense wealth of American corporations.
Bloodsport is the story of how the mania for corporate deals and mergers all began. The riveting tale of how...
The HP Phenomenon
Innovation and Business Transformation
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2009
The HP Phenomenon tells the story of how Hewlett-Packard innovated and transformed itself six times while most of its competitors were unable to make even one significant transformation. It describes those transformations, how they started, how they prevailed, and how the challenges along the way...