Veronica Binda
Biographic Data
| ID | 5244892 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Veronica Binda |
| GIVEN NAMES | Veronica |
| FAMILY NAME | Binda |
| SIGNATURE | BINDA V |
| AFFILIATIONS | Bocconi University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2585-3432 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 20 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 8 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Globalization
Globalization: A Key Idea for Business and Society analyzes today’s process of global integration. Globalization is seen as a complex phenomenon, the drivers of which are of a technological, institutional, cultural and, not least, political nature. The book includes a historical analysis of the rise, and fall, of the “first globalization” wave which took place between the end of the Napoleonic Wars and the Great War. The chapters focus on the mea…
China’s Outward Investment in Europe during the “Go Out” Policy Years
This article examines China’s outward investment in the European automotive industry since the late twentieth century. By mapping and analyzing the main investment operations, we argue that private companies played a key role in the internationalization of the Chinese automotive sector. Chinese state-owned enterprises took part, especially in the initial stages of international expansion. Our contribution also analyzes the pattern of internationa…
Introduction. New advances in quantitative business history
This introduction presents a special issue of Revista de Historia Industrial - Industrial History Review devoted to quantitative business history. After a brief overview of the role and position of quantitative approaches in the methodological debate in business history, we summarize some of the salient points of the articles included in this special issue. These articles highlight the valuable use of quantitative datasets and methods in business…
Business History in Europe
This article examines the working conditions of young business historians in Europe, looking at both the demand and the supply side of the junior job market. It is based on responses to a questionnaire submitted to all the participants in the European Business History Association (EBHA) Doctoral Summer School, and on a database of the positions offered in BH (or related fields) from 2016 up to 2020. The analysis brings to light several problems c…
Trends in the Fashion Business
This article investigates the dynamics that characterized the top fashion industry companies in Italy and Spain in the last three decades of the twentieth century and the first thirteen years of the new millennium. The first section describes the sources and the methodology adopted. The second compares the features and transformations of the largest firms in the industry. The third focuses on these companies in 2013. The fourth discusses our find…
Strategy and Structure in Large Italian and Spanish Firms, 1950–2002
Taking as its starting point Alfred D. Chandler's studies of big business, this investigation explores how the largest corporations in Italy and Spain transformed their strategies and structures during the second half of the twentieth century. Empirical evidence reveals that, in contrast to the more advanced nations of Europe, these two southern European countries did not adopt either product diversification or the multidivisional structure until…
Changing big business in Italy and Spain, 1973–2003
Drawing on a new database, this article deals with the transformation of ownership, strategies and structures of the top 50 Italian and Spanish business groups and with the relationships between these three dimensions in the period extending from the mid-1970s to 2003. Despite the deep changes in the macro-economic framework during the period considered, the ownership and organisational structures of big business present relevant continuities in …
Towards a ‘Managerial Revolution’ in European Business? The transformation of Danish and Spanish Big Business, 1973–2003
This article examines the growth strategies and ownership of the 40 largest corporations in Spain and Denmark from 1973 to 2003 in the light of European economic integration. It follows the tradition of the Harvard Program and builds on the work of Richard Whittington and Michael Mayers on the history of European corporations. These studies have been extended in three ways: geographically, introducing a small north European and a medium sized sou…
Towards a ‘Managerial Revolution’ in European Business? The transformation of Danish and Spanish Big Business, 1973–2003
This article examines the growth strategies and ownership of the 40 largest corporations in Spain and Denmark from 1973 to 2003 in the light of European economic integration. It follows the tradition of the Harvard Program and builds on the work of Richard Whittington and Michael Mayers on the history of European corporations. These studies have been extended in three ways: geographically, introducing a small north European and a medium sized sou…
Changing big business in Italy and Spain, 1973–2003
Drawing on a new database, this article deals with the transformation of ownership, strategies and structures of the top 50 Italian and Spanish business groups and with the relationships between these three dimensions in the period extending from the mid-1970s to 2003. Despite the deep changes in the macro-economic framework during the period considered, the ownership and organisational structures of big business present relevant continuities in …
Strategy and Structure in Large Italian and Spanish Firms, 1950–2002
Taking as its starting point Alfred D. Chandler's studies of big business, this investigation explores how the largest corporations in Italy and Spain transformed their strategies and structures during the second half of the twentieth century. Empirical evidence reveals that, in contrast to the more advanced nations of Europe, these two southern European countries did not adopt either product diversification or the multidivisional structure until…
Towards a ‘Managerial Revolution’ in European Business? The transformation of Danish and Spanish Big Business, 1973–2003
This article examines the growth strategies and ownership of the 40 largest corporations in Spain and Denmark from 1973 to 2003 in the light of European economic integration. It follows the tradition of the Harvard Program and builds on the work of Richard Whittington and Michael Mayers on the history of European corporations. These studies have been extended in three ways: geographically, introducing a small north European and a medium sized sou…
Changing big business in Italy and Spain, 1973–2003
Drawing on a new database, this article deals with the transformation of ownership, strategies and structures of the top 50 Italian and Spanish business groups and with the relationships between these three dimensions in the period extending from the mid-1970s to 2003. Despite the deep changes in the macro-economic framework during the period considered, the ownership and organisational structures of big business present relevant continuities in …
Strategy and Structure in Large Italian and Spanish Firms, 1950–2002
Taking as its starting point Alfred D. Chandler's studies of big business, this investigation explores how the largest corporations in Italy and Spain transformed their strategies and structures during the second half of the twentieth century. Empirical evidence reveals that, in contrast to the more advanced nations of Europe, these two southern European countries did not adopt either product diversification or the multidivisional structure until…
Trends in the Fashion Business
This article investigates the dynamics that characterized the top fashion industry companies in Italy and Spain in the last three decades of the twentieth century and the first thirteen years of the new millennium. The first section describes the sources and the methodology adopted. The second compares the features and transformations of the largest firms in the industry. The third focuses on these companies in 2013. The fourth discusses our find…
Business History in Europe
This article examines the working conditions of young business historians in Europe, looking at both the demand and the supply side of the junior job market. It is based on responses to a questionnaire submitted to all the participants in the European Business History Association (EBHA) Doctoral Summer School, and on a database of the positions offered in BH (or related fields) from 2016 up to 2020. The analysis brings to light several problems c…
Introduction. New advances in quantitative business history
This introduction presents a special issue of Revista de Historia Industrial - Industrial History Review devoted to quantitative business history. After a brief overview of the role and position of quantitative approaches in the methodological debate in business history, we summarize some of the salient points of the articles included in this special issue. These articles highlight the valuable use of quantitative datasets and methods in business…
Globalization
Globalization: A Key Idea for Business and Society analyzes today’s process of global integration. Globalization is seen as a complex phenomenon, the drivers of which are of a technological, institutional, cultural and, not least, political nature. The book includes a historical analysis of the rise, and fall, of the “first globalization” wave which took place between the end of the Napoleonic Wars and the Great War. The chapters focus on the mea…
China’s Outward Investment in Europe during the “Go Out” Policy Years
This article examines China’s outward investment in the European automotive industry since the late twentieth century. By mapping and analyzing the main investment operations, we argue that private companies played a key role in the internationalization of the Chinese automotive sector. Chinese state-owned enterprises took part, especially in the initial stages of international expansion. Our contribution also analyzes the pattern of internationa…
Political science (8 works) · Business (7 works) · Economics (6 works) · Business history (4 works) · Economy (4 works) · Diversification (marketing strategy (3 works) · Economic geography (3 works) · Italy: Economic History and Contemporary Issues (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Marketing (3 works)