Creating modern capitalism: how entrepreneurs, companies, and countries triumphed in three industrial revolutions
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TextPublication details: Cambridge Harvard University Press 1997 Description: xii, 711 pISBN: 9780674175563Subject(s): Capitalism | Economic history | Industrial revolutionDDC classification: 338.09 Summary: What explains the national economic success of the United States, Britain, Germany, and Japan? What can be learned from the long-term championship performances of leading business firms in each country? How important were specific innovations by individual entrepreneurs? And in the end, what is the true nature of capitalist development?
The Pulitzer Prize–winning historian Thomas K. McCraw and his coauthors present penetrating answers to these questions. Creating Modern Capitalism is the first book to explain for a broad audience the interconnections among technological innovation, management science, the power of entrepreneurship, and national economic growth. The authors approach each question from a comparative framework and with a unique triple focus on national economic systems, particular companies, and individual business leaders.
Above all, the book focuses on how specific entrepreneurs influenced the economic success of their countries: Josiah Wedgwood and Henry Royce in Britain; August Thyssen and Georg von Siemens in Germany; Henry Ford, Alfred Sloan, and the two Thomas J. Watsons in the United States; Sakichi Toyoda, Masatoshi Ito, and Toshifumi Suzuki in Japan.
The product of a three-year collaborative effort at the Harvard Business School, the book combines cutting-edge scholarship with a finely tuned sense of the art of management. It will engage general readers as well as those with a special interest in entrepreneurship and the evolution of national business systems.
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Introduction [Thomas K. McCraw]
Josiah Wedgwood and the First Industrial Revolution [Nancy F. Koehn]
British Capitalism and the Three Industrial Revolutions [Peter Botticelli]
Rolls-Royce and the Rise of High-Technology Industry [Peter Botticelli]
German Capitalism [Jeffrey Fear]
August Thyssen and German Steel [Jeffrey Fear]
The Deutsche Bank [David A. Moss]
Henry Ford, Alfred Sloan, and the Three Phases of Marketing [Thomas K. McCraw and Richard S. Tedlow]
American Capitalism [Thomas K. McCraw]
IBM and the Two Thomas J. Watsons [Rowena Olegario]
Toyoda Automatic Looms and Toyota Automobiles [Jeffrey R. Bernstein]
Japanese Capitalism [Jeffrey R. Bernstein]
7-Eleven in America and Japan [Jeffrey R. Bernstein]
Retrospect and Prospect [Thomas K. McCraw]
Appendix
Notes
Index
What explains the national economic success of the United States, Britain, Germany, and Japan? What can be learned from the long-term championship performances of leading business firms in each country? How important were specific innovations by individual entrepreneurs? And in the end, what is the true nature of capitalist development?
The Pulitzer Prize–winning historian Thomas K. McCraw and his coauthors present penetrating answers to these questions. Creating Modern Capitalism is the first book to explain for a broad audience the interconnections among technological innovation, management science, the power of entrepreneurship, and national economic growth. The authors approach each question from a comparative framework and with a unique triple focus on national economic systems, particular companies, and individual business leaders.
Above all, the book focuses on how specific entrepreneurs influenced the economic success of their countries: Josiah Wedgwood and Henry Royce in Britain; August Thyssen and Georg von Siemens in Germany; Henry Ford, Alfred Sloan, and the two Thomas J. Watsons in the United States; Sakichi Toyoda, Masatoshi Ito, and Toshifumi Suzuki in Japan.
The product of a three-year collaborative effort at the Harvard Business School, the book combines cutting-edge scholarship with a finely tuned sense of the art of management. It will engage general readers as well as those with a special interest in entrepreneurship and the evolution of national business systems.
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