The Emergence of Modern Business Enterprise in France 1800-1930
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9804137 |
|---|---|
| Authors | R Price (0000-0003-1177-5699) |
| Year | 2007 |
| Volume | 122 |
| Issue | 499 |
| Pages | 1439-1441 |
| Publication date | 2007-12-21 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The English Historical Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0013-8266 • E-ISSN: 1477-4534 |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1093/ehr/cem378 |
| OpenAlex | W2084880721 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 10 |
The central theme of modern business history is the rise of ‘big business’ according to the highly influential American historian, Alfred D. Chandler, whose emphasis on the role of entrepreneurs of ‘unusual talent’ and the capacity of major enterprises to ‘set the tone and agenda’ for the entire economy form the basis of the approach adopted by Smith in this volume. The emphasis and language are indeed sometimes very reminiscent of Marx's hymn of praise to the creative powers of the bourgeoisie in The Communist Manifesto. Without adequately considering the potential strengths or weaknesses of the Chandlerian model, or indeed those of alternative approaches, Smith castigates those French business historians who have failed to apply Chandler's concepts or even to mention the great man. Given that French firms were behaving in a similar fashion to large enterprises in the USA, Britain and Germany, and that technological convergence was clearly evident, this failure appears to Smith to be inexplicable
Art · Bourgeoisie · Communism · Economics · Economy · Literature · Management · Manifesto · Market economy · Neoclassical economics · Political science · Praise · Theme (computing · Computer Science · French Historical and Cultural Studies · History · Law
Human Capital and Industrialization
Invisible Women
Integration in European coal markets, 1833–1913
Making Distribution Markets
Sucre indigèneandsucre colonial
The ‘Divorce’ of ownership from control from 1900 onwards
Business and State in the development of the steel industry in Spain and Italy (c.1880–1929)
Emergence, consolidation and dominance of meta-regimes
Oceans without Borders”
Networks of power and networks of capital
| Citations per year | 0.53 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2007 - 2020 (14) |
| Highly cited | No |