Corporate History category: 769 books
Financial Elites and European Banking
Historical Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2018
What role have the financial elites in European societies and markets played over time? What was their contribution to the recent financial collapse, and how does this compare to previous crises? How have financial elites adjusted to, or influenced, the evolution of the financial system's regulatory...
Elektromobilitaet
Theoretische Grundlagen, Herausforderungen sowie Chancen und Risiken der Elektromobilitaet, diskutiert an den Umsetzungsmoeglichkeiten in die Praxis
Language: German
Release Date: December 15, 2014
Elektromobilität ist im Trend! Automobilhersteller, Energiekonzerne, sowie die Bundesregierung beschäftigen sich immer stärker mit dieser Thematik. Die Arbeit veranschaulicht Hintergrund und Entwicklung dieses Trends. Darüber hinaus werden die sich durch Elektromobilität ergebenden Chance, Risiken...
Hitting the Brakes
Engineering Design and the Production of Knowledge
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2009
In Hitting the Brakes, Ann Johnson illuminates the complex social, historical, and cultural dynamics of engineering design, in which knowledge communities come together to produce new products and knowledge. Using the development of antilock braking systems for passenger cars as a case study, Johnson...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2004
Fischer Black was a remarkable social scientist, one whose contributions range from the lofty perch of highbrow theory to the trenches of practical application. The papers represented in this work span the same range, the contributions of a remarkable array of financial economists who embody in different...
Creating Consumers
Home Economists in Twentieth-Century America
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2012
Home economics emerged at the turn of the twentieth century as a movement to train women to be more efficient household managers. At the same moment, American families began to consume many more goods and services than they produced. To guide women in this transition, professional home economists...
Diminishing Returns at Work
The Consequences of Long Working Hours
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2018
The relationship between the number of hours worked and productivity has long fascinated economists and management. It is a central component of the production function that translates inputs to outputs. While increasing the number of hours someone works may increase output, this incisive book demonstrates...
by Iric Nathanson
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2019
Minnesota's capital city was given a lofty identity when young Catholic priest Lucien Gaultier built a modest log chapel in a wilderness clearing and named it for his patron saint. St. Paul's modern downtown would later take shape at this very site. In the mid-19th century, St. Paul's strategic location...
by Valerio Castronovo
Language: Italian
Release Date: May 18, 2012
Language: Italian
Release Date: May 18, 2012
L'Istituto per la Ricostruzione Industriale (IRI) nasce nel 1933, per volere di Mussolini e su progetto di Alberto Beneduce, con l'intento di evitare il fallimento delle principali banche e imprese italiane e con esso il crollo dell'economia, già provata dalla crisi mondiale esplosa nel 1929. Dal...
by Giampiero Iommi
Language: Italian
Release Date: April 2, 2013
Language: Italian
Release Date: April 2, 2013
Il volume è una guida agile per tutti gli utenti che vogliono accostare i luoghi, la storia e le innovazioni del più importante distretto europeo del cappello. Il testo si rivolge ad un pubblico poliedrico che desidera approfondire la conoscenza di questa realtà e, in parte, anche agli addetti...
by Jean-Yves Mollier
Language: French
Release Date: October 29, 2015
Language: French
Release Date: October 29, 2015
Quand, le 13 novembre 2014, Hachette rend les armes devant Amazon, nouveau cavalier de l’Apocalypse numérique, une page de l’édition se tourne. Le géant mondial du livre aux deux milliards de chiffre d’affaires a cédé devant quarante fois plus puissant que lui, Amazon, fort de ses quatre-vingts...
The Power of Your Life
The Sanlam Century of Insurance Empowerment, 1918-2018
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2018
This book explores a century of business development of The South African Life Assurance Company, from a specific local focus to a national conglomerate expanding into global insurance markets. Established as a strategic vehicle to address Afrikaner economic marginalization and abject poverty at the...
by Pierluigi Ciocca
Language: Italian
Release Date: January 1, 2015
Language: Italian
Release Date: January 1, 2015
Questo libro completa l'opera in sei volumi Storia dell'IRI. Integra i volumi analitici che l'hanno preceduto con una trattazione incentrata sulle reciproche interazioni fra le vicende dell'Istituto e quelle attraversate dall'economia italiana: la crisi degli anni Trenta del Novecento, dalla quale...
Die Allianz
Geschichte des Unternehmens 1890-2015
Language: German
Release Date: March 2, 2015
Am 5. Februar 1890 trug das Königliche Amtsgericht I in Berlin ein neues Unternehmen in das Handelsregister ein: die „Allianz“ Versicherungs-Aktien-Gesellschaft. 125 Jahre später ist die Allianz einer der größten internationalen Finanzdienstleister. Die faszinierende Geschichte des Unternehmens...
by Franco Russolillo
Language: Italian
Release Date: January 1, 2015
Language: Italian
Release Date: January 1, 2015
L'Istituto per la Ricostruzione Industriale (IRI) nasce nel 1933, per volere di Mussolini e su progetto di Alberto Beneduce, con l'intento di evitare il fallimento delle principali banche e imprese italiane e con esso il crollo dell'economia, già provata dalla crisi mondiale esplosa nel 1929. Dal...