00000nam a22000004a 4500 UP-1685675941122038817 Buklod 20231122112950.0 a r |||| u| ta 230807t2005 enk rb b 001 0|eng 0753820404 9780753820407 12840505 BC-73561 Gift- Dr. Yeoh Seng Guan OLC BAG rda eng HD 2721 M53 2005 Micklethwait, John author. The company a short history of a revolutionary idea John Micklethwait and Adrian Wooldridge. Paperback edition. London Phoenix, an imprint of Orion Books Ltd 2005 ©2003. ix, 214 pages 20 cm text rdacontent unmediated rdamedia volume rdacarrier Includes bibliographical references (pages [190]-201) and index. Introduction Utopia limited -- Merchants and monopolists, 3000 B.C.-A.D. 1500 -- Imperialists and speculators, 1500-1750 -- Prolonged and painful birth, 1750-1862 -- Rise of big business in America, 1862-1913 -- Rise of big business in Britain, Germany, and Japan, 1850-1950 -- Triumph of managerial capitalism, 1913-1975 -- Corporate paradox, 1975-2002 -- Agents of influence: multinationals, 1850-2002 -- Conclusion Future of the company. Economist editors John Micklethwait and Adrian Wooldridge reveal the company to be one of history's great catalysts, for good and for ill, a mighty engine for sucking in, recombining, and pumping out money, goods, people, and culture to every corner of the globe. What other earthly invention has the power to grow to any size, and to live to any age? What else could have given us both the stock market and the British Empire? The company man, the company town, and company time? Disneyfication and McDonald'sization, to say nothing of Coca-colonialism? Through its many mutations, the company has always incited controversy, and governments have always fought to rein it in. Today, though Marx may spin in his grave and anarchists riot in the streets, the company exercises an unparalleled influence on the globe, and understanding what this creature is and where it comes from has never been a more pressing matter. Corporations History. Incorporation History. Business enterprises History. Entrepreneurship History. Business History. Commerce History. Economic history. Wooldridge, Adrian. author. FO UPBAG UPBAG-MAIN HD 2721 M53 2005 Book