The Oxford Handbook of Business History

• Part I: Approaches and Debates


• 1: Geoffrey Jones and Jonathan Zeitlin: Introduction


• 2: Patrick Fridenson: Business History and History


• 3: Naomi Lamoreaux, Daniel Raff, and Peter Temin: Economic Theory and Business History


• 4: William Lazonick: Business History and Economic Development


• 5: Matthias Kipping and Behlül Üsdiken: Business History and Management Studies


• 6: Jonathan Zeitlin: The Historical Alternatives Approach


• 7: Geoffrey Jones: Globalization


• Part II: Forms of Business Organization


• 8: Youssef Cassis: Big Business


• 9: Andrea Colli and Mary Rose: Family Business


• 10: Jonathan Zeitlin: Industrial Districts and Regional Clusters


• 11: W. Mark Fruin: Business Groups and Interfirm Networks


• 12: Jeffrey Fear: Cartels


• 13: Luca Lanzalaco: Business Interest Associations


• Part III: Functions of Enterprise


• 14: Michel Lescure: Banking and Finance


• 15: Margaret B.W. Graham: Technology and Innovation


• 16: Wolfgang König: Design and Engineering


• 17: Robert Fitzgerald: Marketing and Distribution


• 18: Howard Gospel: The Management of Labor and Human Resources


• 19: Trevor Boyns: Accounting, Information, and Communication Systems


• 20: Gary Herrigel: Corporate Governance


• Part IV: Enterprise and Society


• 21: Geoffrey Jones and R. Daniel Wadhwani: Entrepreneurship


• 22: Robert Millward: Business and the State


• 23: Kathleen Thelen: Skill Formation and Training


• 24: Rolv Petter Amdam: Business Education


• 25: Kenneth Lipartito: Business Culture

Geoffrey Jones is Isidor Straus Professor of Business History, Harvard Business School. He previously taught at the universities of Cambridge and Reading, and at the London School of Economics and Political Science, in Great Britain. He is the author and editor of many books and articles on the history of international business, including British Multinational Banking 1830-1990 (OUP, 1993), Merchants to Multinationals (OUP, 2000), Multinationals and Global Capitalism (OUP, 2005) and Renewing Unilever (OUP, 2005). He is a former President of both the European Business History Association and the Business History Conference of the Untied States, is co-editor of the journal Business History Review.

Jonathan Zeitlin is Professor of Public Policy and Governance at the University of Amsterdam. He is also Director of the Center for World Affairs and the Global Economy (WAGE), and Founding Director of the European Union Center of Excellence. He was previously Lecturer in Social and Economic History at Birkbeck College, London, and Research Fellow at King's College, Cambridge, in Great Britain. He is the author and editor of numerous books and articles on the comparative and historical analysis of business organization, employment relations, and socio-economic governance, most recently Local Players in Global Games: The Strategic Constitution of a Multinational Corporation (OUP, 2005). He is co-editor of the journal Socio-Economic Review, a member of the editorial board of Enterprise & Society, and a former Trustee of the Business History Conference.

Review from previous edition The Handbook's 25 chapters (and its 88-page index) are an admirable demonstration that scholarship in business history is energetic and fruitful, and that research in the field is pushing ahead in new directions. In particular they demonstrate the growing, post-Chandlerian links between business history and adjacent disciplines such as history, economics, economic development, cultural studies and management science. |s Business History News

...a state-of-the-art overview of business history research worldwide...This Handbook has the potential to become the reference source for both business historians and non-specialists... Andrea Goldstein, INTERNATIONAL ECONOMIES