... economic prosperity among people of color (Washington, 1907). Entrepreneurs Business history John Merrick was born a slave in 1859 in North Carolina. When he was 12, his mother left the plantation in Sampson County and went to Chapel Hill for domestic work. The young Merrick stayed behind...

... Over his intellectual career, Alfred Chandler has conceptualized different types of capitalism related to national business history: the process of visible hands internalization, managerial hierarchy, organizational capability and path of learning; that reflect, respectively, USA, British, German...

... written for a great audience. The volume is not an academicals one. Business history Management power © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2007 --> Howard   Means . Money and Power. The History of Business . New York : John Wiley & Sons, Inc.   2001 . 548 pp. ...

... and Maslish precise that their aims is to secure a better grasp of the phenomenon of present day globalisation (p. 15) with focussing on multinational corporations. They suggest that business history is an appropriate approach to study current globalisation because business history transgresses a purely...

... of these professionals whom he transferred from state economic enterprises or bureaucracy. Sibel Yamak can be contacted at: syamak@gsu.edu.tr © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2006 Business history Turkey Entrepreneurs Corporate governance The role of contextual factors on élite...