Business History
Topics for the final event:
The work of Oliver E. Williamson
Oliver E. Williamson (1975), Markets and Hierarchies
Oliver E. Williamson (1985) The Economic Institutions of Capitalism: Firms, Markets,
Relational Contracting
Oliver E. Williamson and the Transaction cost economics:
Transaction Cost Theory
Mark Casson / Mary B. Rose (eds) (1998) Institutions and the evolution of Modern Business
(article S. R. H. Jones)
The birth of modern business history: the work of Alfred D. Chandler jr. – its influence
Alfred D. Chandler jr. 1962 Strategy and Structure: Chapters in the History of the American
Industrial Enterprise
Alfred D. Chandler jr. 1977 The Visible Hand. The Managerial Revolution in American
Business (please look also at discussion of Chandler’s “The Visible Hand” in Business
History Review 71 (1997)
Alfred D. Chandler jr./ Herman Daems (eds) 1980 Managerial Hierarchies. Comparative
Perspectives on the Rise of the Modern Industrial Enterprise.
Herman Daems / Herman Van der Wee (eds) 1974 The Rise of Managerial Capitalism
Alfred D. Chandler jr. 1990 Scale and Scope. The Dynamics of Industrial Capitalism (read
also article by Barry Supple 1991 Scale and Scope in Economic History review 44/3 Aug.:
500-14, and article by Leslie Hannah, Scale and Scope. Towards a European Visible Hand?
Business History 33 / 1991, 297-309.
Growth of USA – decline in Great Britain
Read Chandler 1990 Scale and Scope, Chandler 1980 The Growth of the Transnational
Industrial Firm in the United States and the United Kingdom: A Comparative Analysis
Economic History Review 33/3 Aug. 396-410
Bernard Elbaum / William Lazonick (eds) 1986 The Decline of the British Economy
Americanization of Business
J. Zeitlin / G. Herriegel (eds) (2000) Americanization and its Limits: reworking US
Technology and Management in Post-War Europe and Japan
Rewriting Chandler
Youssef Cassis 1997 Big Business: The European Experience in the 20th Century
Leslie Hannah 1976 The Rise of the Corporate Economy
Leslie Hannah (ed) (1976) Management Strategy and Business Development: An Historical
and Comparative Study.
The importance of family business
Family Capitalism (1993) Special issue of Business History, 35/4, Oct.
Roy Church 1993 The Family Firm in Industrial Capitalism: International Perspectives on
Hypotheses and History Business History 35/4, Oct. 17-43 (read also Church article in
Business History Review 1990 64/4, winter 703-10)
New directions after 1970/80
Michael Piore / Charles Sabel (1984), The Second Industrial Divide: Possibilities for
Prosperity
Charles Sabel / Jonathan Zeitlin (eds) (1997) World of Possibilities: Flexibility and Mass
Production in Western Industrialization
Classics
Edith Penrose (1959) The Theory of the Growth of the Firm (read article by Lazonick in: C.
Pitelis (ed) (2002) The Growth of the Firm: The Legacy of Edith Penrose, 249-77.
Casson, Mark 1997) Information and Organization: A New Perspective on the Theory of the
Firm
William Lazonick (1991) Business Organization and the Myth of the Market Economy
Joseph Schumpeter 1934 The Theory of Economic Development
Joseph Schumpeter 1942 Capitalism, Socialism, and Democracy
Role of the entrepreneur and role of new technology in Schumpeter’s work!
Casson, Mark (1982), The Entrepreneur. An Economic Theory
Evolutionary Economics or the “Neo-Schumpeterians”
Richard R. Nelson / Sidney G. Winter (1982) An Evolutionary Theory of Economic Change
Richard R. Nelson (ed.) (1993), National Innovation Systems
J. Fagerberg et al. (2004) The Oxford Handbook of Innovation
The work of Michael Porter
Michael Porter (1990), The Competitive Advantage of Nations
Michael Porter (1980) Competitive Strategy
Michael Porter (1985) Competitive Advantage
Multinationals / Globalization
Casson, Mark (1983) The Growth of International Business
Casson, Mark (1984) Multinationals and World Trade
Geoffrey Jones 2005 , Multinationals and Global Capitalism
Peter Buckley / Mark Casson (1985), The Economic Theory of the Multinational Enterprise
Peter Hertner /Geoffrey Jones (ed.) (1986) Multinationals: Theory and History
Globalization – Business History in the emerging world
D. Faure (2006), China and Capitalism
Geoffrey Jones / F. Amatori (eds) 2003 Business History around the World
Women in Business
Mary Yeager (ed), Women in business 1999
A. Kwolek-Folland, Incorporating Women (focus on US) 1998
Gender and business History (2001) special issue of Enterprise and Society 2/1, Mar.
Accounting
H. T. Johnson / R. S: Kaplan 1987 Relevance Lost: The Rise and Fall of Management
Accounting
Decision Making /Information
Naomi Lamoreaux (2001) Reframing the Past. Enterprise and Society 1/4 632-59
Naomi Lamoreaux / Peter Temin (eds) (1999) Learning by Doing in Markets, Firms and
nations
Naomi Lamoreaux / Daniel Raff (eds) Coordination and Information: Historical Perspectives
on the Organization of Enterprise
Peter Temin (ed) 1991 Inside the Business Enterprise: Historical Perspectives on the Use of
Information