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.
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.
* 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
Thomas K. McCraw was Straus Professor of Business History Emeritus at Harvard Business School and winner of the Pulitzer Prize for History.
Few thinkers have inquired more deeply into the historical roots of
big business and big government than Alfred Chandler of the Harvard
Business School. Here, his student, a Pulitzer Prize winner, pulls
together a variety of great stories into a cohesive whole—from
Josiah Wedgwood to the two Watsons of IBM to the saga of 7-Eleven
stores in the United States and Japan.
*Boston Globe*
This is by far the best textbook on comparative business history
that has appeared to date, and it will no doubt be seized on
eagerly by teachers in the field.
*Business History*
Creating Modern Capitalism works well in the classroom. The cases
raise important issues about the history of global business, and
they stimulate students to think about world business today. I
intend to continue assigning this book for the foreseeable
future.
*Business History Review*
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