Franco Amatori
Biographic Data
| ID | 1130508 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Franco Amatori |
| GIVEN NAMES | Franco |
| FAMILY NAME | Amatori |
| SIGNATURE | AMATORI F |
| AFFILIATIONS | Bocconi University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 21 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 82 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 19 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1980 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Iri: Financial intermediary or entrepreneurial state
The Istituto per la Ricostruzione Industriale (IRI), a state-controlled holding company, was founded in 1933. Its original mission was to prevent the collapse of Italy's largest universal banks by taking over their huge industrial shareholdings. As a consequence, the historiography traditionally associates it with the concept of ‘entrepreneurial state’. This article aims to challenge this interpretation by focusing on the ideas and actions of thr…
Entrepreneurial History in Motion: A Reply to R. Daniel Wadhwani’s Comment
Galambos and Amatori applaud this discourse over entrepreneurship but contend that the multiplier is not a metaphor. They acknowledge Wadhwani’s insightful analyses and look forward to further fruitful discussions focused on innovation, capitalism’s major strength. They briefly argue for scalar evaluations rather than binary evaluations of innovation and the socio-economic problems they inevitably create
Marchionne, «uno di loro
The Entrepreneurial Multiplier Effect
Since the Keynesian revolution in economics, a standard part of the profession’s analytical framework, and an argument for government support for investment, has been the multiplier concept. This classical multiplier works through consumption in an equilibrium model. Our contention is that there is also an entrepreneurial multiplier that works directly through investment by incentivizing or forcing investments in innovation in a dynamic, disequil…
The burden of the family company: Leopoldo Pirelli and his times
Leopoldo Pirelli was the third generation to run the family firm and a key character of Italian capitalism. He played a major role in Italy’s biggest merger and served as Head of the Committee for Reforms of the Italian Confederation of Industrialists. As head of Pirelli, he was appreciated by shareholders and by management. Though intent on internationalisation, he failed twice (the ‘Union’ with Dunlop and later with Continental). After this sec…
Storia d'impresa: Complessitŕ E Comparazioni
Business History: complexity and comparisons. An overview of the last two centuries of business history around the world focusing on three variables: technology, the firm, and the local context. Analysis shows the continuous competition between various countries, from the United States and Japan to China and India, with new waves of technology that make it impossible to forecast history. Business history naturally leads to the larger field of eco…
Entrepreneurial Typologies in the History of Industrial Italy: Reconsiderations
The market types that were the subject of an earlier essay in the Review are resurveyed in order to examine the changes that have occurred over the past fifty years. The entrepreneurial typologies identified then–one based on a market orientation, another that relies on state support, and a third, hybrid, approach–are still valid today. The liveliest components of the modern Italian economy, which operate as a fourth type of capitalism (mainly ba…
Business history: State of the art and controversies
Dans un premier temps, l’article revient sur la période que traverse actuellement l’histoire des entreprises, qu’il est possible de qualifier de « post-chandlérienne ». Après avoir présenté les principales critiques adressées au travail de Chandler, l’auteur dégage les principaux enseignements qu’il est possible de retenir de ses recherches et ses enseignements à Harvard. Dans une deuxième partie, quatre pistes prometteuses sont présentées : (a) …
Business History Around the World
Business history as history: Keynote Lecture at the 2008 European Business History Association Conference (Bergen, Norway, August 2008)
The rise of modern business: Great Britain, the United States, Germany, Japan and China - By Mansel G. Blackford
Chandler vu d'Europe
Clin d'œil: The Borletti are back
Strategies and Structures of European Enterprise
Alfred Chandler a montré comment la grande entreprise américaine s’est adaptée à l’essor de la consommation de masse par le passage d’une organisation fonctionnelle (U. Form) à une organisation opérationnelle (M. Form). Ce modèle a été introduit de façon systématique en Europe occidentale après la seconde guerre mondiale. Cette adoption du modèle américain n’a pas été totale, en raison d’une moindre préoccupation portée au marketing (Allemagne), …
Business History around the World
Big Business and the Wealth of Nations
Journal Article Big Business and the Wealth of Nations. Ed. by Alfred D. Chandler Jr., Franco Amatori, and Takashi Hikino. (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1997. xii, 575 pp. $59.95, ISBN 0-521-48123-6.) Get access Howell John Harris Howell John Harris University of Durham, Durham, England Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 85, Issue 4, March 1999, Pages 1663–1664, ht…
European Business: New Strategies, Old Structures
Elusive Synergy: Business-Government Relations and Development
Big business is back. After a puzzling absence, business politics and relations between business and the state have once again become a privileged locus of analyses of development and democracy and of contending theoretical perspectives in comparative political economy. I say once again because business-state relations occupied a similarly central locus in the late 1970s in comparative political economy. Then, big business was a prominent protago…
Big Business and the Wealth of Nations
Written in non-technical terms, this book explains how the dynamics of big business have influenced national and international economies. A path-breaking study, it provides the first systematic treatment of big business in advanced, emerging, and centrally-planned economies from the late nineteenth century, when big businesses first appeared in American and West European manufacturing, to the present. Large industrial enterprises play a vital rol…
Reflections on Global Business and Modern Italian Enterprise by a Stubborn “Chandlerian”
It is perfectly correct to place the work of Alfred Chandler at the center of a discussion of globalization as seen by business historians. No other author in our field of studies has offered us so much both in terms of research results as well as tools for the analysis and definition of the global characteristics of the modern large enterprise. It is enough in this respect to consider his last book, Scale and Scope , where the author examined th…
Entrepreneurial Typologies in the History of Industrial Italy (1880–1960)
Those who in the past twenty years have examined the historiography of industrial Italy cannot help but recognize its “backwardness” when compared to similar studies in other countries, particularly those of American entrepreneurial history. Various reasons have been given to justify this “backwardness,” such as the excessive humanistic tradition of Italian historical studies, the relatively scarce statistical data available on Italian industry, …
Entrepreneurial Typologies in the History of Industrial Italy: Reconsiderations
The market types that were the subject of an earlier essay in the Review are resurveyed in order to examine the changes that have occurred over the past fifty years. The entrepreneurial typologies identified then–one based on a market orientation, another that relies on state support, and a third, hybrid, approach–are still valid today. The liveliest components of the modern Italian economy, which operate as a fourth type of capitalism (mainly ba…
Elusive Synergy: Business-Government Relations and Development
Big business is back. After a puzzling absence, business politics and relations between business and the state have once again become a privileged locus of analyses of development and democracy and of contending theoretical perspectives in comparative political economy. I say once again because business-state relations occupied a similarly central locus in the late 1970s in comparative political economy. Then, big business was a prominent protago…
Entrepreneurial Typologies in the History of Industrial Italy (1880–1960)
Those who in the past twenty years have examined the historiography of industrial Italy cannot help but recognize its “backwardness” when compared to similar studies in other countries, particularly those of American entrepreneurial history. Various reasons have been given to justify this “backwardness,” such as the excessive humanistic tradition of Italian historical studies, the relatively scarce statistical data available on Italian industry, …
The Entrepreneurial Multiplier Effect
Since the Keynesian revolution in economics, a standard part of the profession’s analytical framework, and an argument for government support for investment, has been the multiplier concept. This classical multiplier works through consumption in an equilibrium model. Our contention is that there is also an entrepreneurial multiplier that works directly through investment by incentivizing or forcing investments in innovation in a dynamic, disequil…
Business history as history: Keynote Lecture at the 2008 European Business History Association Conference (Bergen, Norway, August 2008)
Business history: State of the art and controversies
Dans un premier temps, l’article revient sur la période que traverse actuellement l’histoire des entreprises, qu’il est possible de qualifier de « post-chandlérienne ». Après avoir présenté les principales critiques adressées au travail de Chandler, l’auteur dégage les principaux enseignements qu’il est possible de retenir de ses recherches et ses enseignements à Harvard. Dans une deuxième partie, quatre pistes prometteuses sont présentées : (a) …
Reflections on Global Business and Modern Italian Enterprise by a Stubborn “Chandlerian”
It is perfectly correct to place the work of Alfred Chandler at the center of a discussion of globalization as seen by business historians. No other author in our field of studies has offered us so much both in terms of research results as well as tools for the analysis and definition of the global characteristics of the modern large enterprise. It is enough in this respect to consider his last book, Scale and Scope , where the author examined th…
The burden of the family company: Leopoldo Pirelli and his times
Leopoldo Pirelli was the third generation to run the family firm and a key character of Italian capitalism. He played a major role in Italy’s biggest merger and served as Head of the Committee for Reforms of the Italian Confederation of Industrialists. As head of Pirelli, he was appreciated by shareholders and by management. Though intent on internationalisation, he failed twice (the ‘Union’ with Dunlop and later with Continental). After this sec…
Business History around the World
Entrepreneurial History in Motion: A Reply to R. Daniel Wadhwani’s Comment
Galambos and Amatori applaud this discourse over entrepreneurship but contend that the multiplier is not a metaphor. They acknowledge Wadhwani’s insightful analyses and look forward to further fruitful discussions focused on innovation, capitalism’s major strength. They briefly argue for scalar evaluations rather than binary evaluations of innovation and the socio-economic problems they inevitably create
Strategies and Structures of European Enterprise
Alfred Chandler a montré comment la grande entreprise américaine s’est adaptée à l’essor de la consommation de masse par le passage d’une organisation fonctionnelle (U. Form) à une organisation opérationnelle (M. Form). Ce modèle a été introduit de façon systématique en Europe occidentale après la seconde guerre mondiale. Cette adoption du modèle américain n’a pas été totale, en raison d’une moindre préoccupation portée au marketing (Allemagne), …
European Business: New Strategies, Old Structures
Entrepreneurial Typologies in the History of Industrial Italy (1880–1960)
Those who in the past twenty years have examined the historiography of industrial Italy cannot help but recognize its “backwardness” when compared to similar studies in other countries, particularly those of American entrepreneurial history. Various reasons have been given to justify this “backwardness,” such as the excessive humanistic tradition of Italian historical studies, the relatively scarce statistical data available on Italian industry, …
Big Business and the Wealth of Nations
Written in non-technical terms, this book explains how the dynamics of big business have influenced national and international economies. A path-breaking study, it provides the first systematic treatment of big business in advanced, emerging, and centrally-planned economies from the late nineteenth century, when big businesses first appeared in American and West European manufacturing, to the present. Large industrial enterprises play a vital rol…
Reflections on Global Business and Modern Italian Enterprise by a Stubborn “Chandlerian”
It is perfectly correct to place the work of Alfred Chandler at the center of a discussion of globalization as seen by business historians. No other author in our field of studies has offered us so much both in terms of research results as well as tools for the analysis and definition of the global characteristics of the modern large enterprise. It is enough in this respect to consider his last book, Scale and Scope , where the author examined th…
Elusive Synergy: Business-Government Relations and Development
Big business is back. After a puzzling absence, business politics and relations between business and the state have once again become a privileged locus of analyses of development and democracy and of contending theoretical perspectives in comparative political economy. I say once again because business-state relations occupied a similarly central locus in the late 1970s in comparative political economy. Then, big business was a prominent protago…
Big Business and the Wealth of Nations
Journal Article Big Business and the Wealth of Nations. Ed. by Alfred D. Chandler Jr., Franco Amatori, and Takashi Hikino. (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1997. xii, 575 pp. $59.95, ISBN 0-521-48123-6.) Get access Howell John Harris Howell John Harris University of Durham, Durham, England Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 85, Issue 4, March 1999, Pages 1663–1664, ht…
European Business: New Strategies, Old Structures
Business History around the World
Chandler vu d'Europe
Clin d'œil: The Borletti are back
Strategies and Structures of European Enterprise
Alfred Chandler a montré comment la grande entreprise américaine s’est adaptée à l’essor de la consommation de masse par le passage d’une organisation fonctionnelle (U. Form) à une organisation opérationnelle (M. Form). Ce modèle a été introduit de façon systématique en Europe occidentale après la seconde guerre mondiale. Cette adoption du modèle américain n’a pas été totale, en raison d’une moindre préoccupation portée au marketing (Allemagne), …
Business History Around the World
Business history as history: Keynote Lecture at the 2008 European Business History Association Conference (Bergen, Norway, August 2008)
The rise of modern business: Great Britain, the United States, Germany, Japan and China - By Mansel G. Blackford
Business history: State of the art and controversies
Dans un premier temps, l’article revient sur la période que traverse actuellement l’histoire des entreprises, qu’il est possible de qualifier de « post-chandlérienne ». Après avoir présenté les principales critiques adressées au travail de Chandler, l’auteur dégage les principaux enseignements qu’il est possible de retenir de ses recherches et ses enseignements à Harvard. Dans une deuxième partie, quatre pistes prometteuses sont présentées : (a) …
Entrepreneurial Typologies in the History of Industrial Italy: Reconsiderations
The market types that were the subject of an earlier essay in the Review are resurveyed in order to examine the changes that have occurred over the past fifty years. The entrepreneurial typologies identified then–one based on a market orientation, another that relies on state support, and a third, hybrid, approach–are still valid today. The liveliest components of the modern Italian economy, which operate as a fourth type of capitalism (mainly ba…
Storia d'impresa: Complessitŕ E Comparazioni
Business History: complexity and comparisons. An overview of the last two centuries of business history around the world focusing on three variables: technology, the firm, and the local context. Analysis shows the continuous competition between various countries, from the United States and Japan to China and India, with new waves of technology that make it impossible to forecast history. Business history naturally leads to the larger field of eco…
The Entrepreneurial Multiplier Effect
Since the Keynesian revolution in economics, a standard part of the profession’s analytical framework, and an argument for government support for investment, has been the multiplier concept. This classical multiplier works through consumption in an equilibrium model. Our contention is that there is also an entrepreneurial multiplier that works directly through investment by incentivizing or forcing investments in innovation in a dynamic, disequil…
The burden of the family company: Leopoldo Pirelli and his times
Leopoldo Pirelli was the third generation to run the family firm and a key character of Italian capitalism. He played a major role in Italy’s biggest merger and served as Head of the Committee for Reforms of the Italian Confederation of Industrialists. As head of Pirelli, he was appreciated by shareholders and by management. Though intent on internationalisation, he failed twice (the ‘Union’ with Dunlop and later with Continental). After this sec…
Marchionne, «uno di loro
Iri: Financial intermediary or entrepreneurial state
The Istituto per la Ricostruzione Industriale (IRI), a state-controlled holding company, was founded in 1933. Its original mission was to prevent the collapse of Italy's largest universal banks by taking over their huge industrial shareholdings. As a consequence, the historiography traditionally associates it with the concept of ‘entrepreneurial state’. This article aims to challenge this interpretation by focusing on the ideas and actions of thr…
Entrepreneurial History in Motion: A Reply to R. Daniel Wadhwani’s Comment
Galambos and Amatori applaud this discourse over entrepreneurship but contend that the multiplier is not a metaphor. They acknowledge Wadhwani’s insightful analyses and look forward to further fruitful discussions focused on innovation, capitalism’s major strength. They briefly argue for scalar evaluations rather than binary evaluations of innovation and the socio-economic problems they inevitably create
Political science (17 works) · Economics (12 works) · Law (12 works) · Economic history (9 works) · History (8 works) · Law (8 works) · Politics (8 works) · Sociology (8 works) · Business history (7 works) · Italy: Economic History and Contemporary Issues (7 works)