Description: Creating Modern Capitalism : How Entrepreneurs, Companies, and Countries Triumphed in Three Industrial Revolutions, Paperback by McCraw, Thomas K. (EDT), ISBN 0674175565, ISBN-13 9780674175563, Brand New, Free shipping in the US 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 all, th 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 product of a three-year collaborative effort at the Harvard Business School, th 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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Book Title: Creating Modern Capitalism : How Entrepreneurs, Companies, and Co
Number of Pages: 760 Pages
Publication Name: Creating Modern Capitalism : How Entrepreneurs, Companies, and Countries Triumphed in Three Industrial Revolutions
Language: English
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Item Height: 1.6 in
Subject: General, Economics / General, Modern / General, Corporate & Business History
Publication Year: 1998
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 42.5 Oz
Subject Area: Business & Economics, History
Item Length: 9 in
Author: Thomas K. Mccraw
Item Width: 7 in
Format: Trade Paperback
