Family Capitalism : : Wendels, Haniels, Falcks, and the Continental European Model / / Harold James.

This history of three powerful family firms located in different European countries takes place over a period of more than two hundred years. The interplay and the changing social and legal arrangements of the families shaped the development of a European capitalism quite different from the Anglo-Am...

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Place / Publishing House:Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2022]
©2006
Year of Publication:2022
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (448 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Figures
  • Maps
  • Abbreviations
  • Introduction: The Familiarity of Capitalism
  • Part I. The Age of the Individual
  • Chapter 1 The Wendels and the French State
  • Chapter 2 The Pioneer in German History
  • Chapter 3 The Industrial Origins of the Falcks
  • Part II. The Age of the Corporation
  • Introduction
  • Chapter 4 The Gutehoffnungshütte as a Joint-Stock Company
  • Chapter 5 French Companies in Two Countries
  • Chapter 6 An Italian Joint-Stock Company
  • Part III. The Age of Organizationalism
  • Chapter 7 The Politician as Businessman
  • Chapter 8 A Family Concern
  • Chapter 9 Models of Italian Industrial Development
  • Part IV. The Age of the Postwar Miracle
  • Chapter 10 A Costly Miracle in Italy
  • Chapter 11 A New Kind of Family Togetherness
  • Chapter 12 Postwar Reconstruction in France
  • Part V. The Age of Globalization
  • Chapter 13 Wendel Becomes a Conglomerate, French Style
  • Chapter 14 The Crisis of Italian Steel
  • Chapter 15 German Diversification and Internationalization
  • Chapter 16 Family Capitalism and the Exit from Steel
  • Conclusion Family Entrepreneurship
  • Appendix: Family Trees
  • Notes
  • Acknowledgments
  • Index