Trousson, Raymond / Vercruysse, Jeroom (dir.), Dictionnaire general de Voltaire. (Champion classiques, references et dictionnaires 18) 1272 p. 2020:10 (Champion, FR) <670-9>
ISBN 978-2-38096-016-7 paper ¥7,064.- (税込) EUR 38.00

Toeller, Ursula, M. Conitzer & Soehne: Ein juedischer Warenhauskonzern. 156 S. 2025:5 (Nomos, GW) <751-338>
ISBN 978-3-7560-3062-0 paper ¥10,551.- (税込) EUR 44.00

Der Band dokumentiert die Historie des juedischen Warenhauskonzerns ?M. Conitzer & Soehne“, der bis zur Machtergreifung der Nationalsozialisten Kaufhaeuser in ueber dreissig deutschen Staedten fuehrte und nach Ende des Zweiten Weltkriegs in Vergessenheit geriet. Nachgezeichnet wird die Geschichte einzelner Kaufhaeuser, ihre Arisierung und der lange Weg der Rueckerstattungsverfahren. Biografien erfolgreicher Familienmitglieder und die wirtschaftliche Vernetzung einzelner Standorte werden dokumentiert. Die mit der Machtergreifung einsetzende Zerschlagung des Konzerns, die Auspluenderung der privaten Vermoegen sowie die Vertreibung und Ermordung aller Familienmitglieder werden anhand von Beispielen dargestellt.

Roy, Patricia E., John Hart: A Businessman in British Columbia Politics. (The C.D. Howe Series in Canadian Political History) 238 pp. 2025:11 (U. British Columbia Pr., CN) <750-276>
ISBN 978-0-7748-7251-5 paper ¥7,889.- (税込) US$ 37.95

Diplomacy works better than bluster, as John Hart knew well. Hart, an Irish immigrant with a talent for compromise and a famously winning smile, was at the heart of BC politics for much of the first half of the twentieth century. Drawing on government records, politicians' papers, and newspaper reports, John Hart illuminates his achievements as finance minister and premier.A businessman and Liberal, Hart managed British Columbia's finances during both world wars and the Depression. As premier during much of the Second World War, he led a coalition with the Conservatives that provided businesslike governance and established the persistent BC political theme of free enterprise versus socialism.This lively account helps fill a significant gap in the political and economic history of British Columbia.

企業の破産の発明と搾取
Lubben, Stephen J., To Protect Their Interests: The Invention and Exploitation of Corporate Bankruptcy. 384 pp. 2026:1 (Columbia U. Pr., US) <749-328>
ISBN 978-0-231-21310-3 hard ¥27,027.- (税込) US$ 130.00
ISBN 978-0-231-21311-0 paper ¥6,652.- (税込) US$ 32.00

Chapter 11 corporate bankruptcy proceedings are commonly thought of as a tool to protect the broader economy from the failure of large firms, even though the biggest players reap the greatest rewards. In the conventional telling, modern corporate reorganization began in the 1890s, with J. P. Morgan leading a noble effort to protect bondholders from the depredations of corporate insiders. What does this story leave out, and how do the true origins of bankruptcy law shed light on its present-day uses and abuses?To Protect Their Interests is a groundbreaking historical account of how corporate bankruptcy became what it is today-a forum for battles between well-heeled insiders. Stephen J. Lubben strips away the myths surrounding the history of corporate restructuring, showing that it emerged a decade before Morgan, when the robber baron Jay Gould strove to keep control of his railroad by working out a compromise with a handful of wealthy investors. The 1885 restructuring of Texas and Pacific Railway set the pattern for future corporate reorganizations: insider dealing, elite manipulation of the legal system, and judicial deference. Lubben traces the evolution of the bankruptcy system through a series of major cases involving companies such as W. T. Grant and Toys "R" Us, demonstrating that it has always been a way for the powerful to maintain power. Revealing the sordid origins of bankruptcy law, this book also considers the limited prospects for reform.

Suffia, Ilaria, CSR and its Internal Narrative: A History of the Pirelli Company Magazine (1950-2019). (Palgrave Debates in Business History) 130 pp. 2025:5 (Palgrave Macmillan, UK) <749-329>
ISBN 978-3-031-87444-4 hard ¥9,588.- (税込) EUR 39.99

Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) was coined as a term in the 1950s, although modern notions of corporate responsibility can be traced to the second half of the 19th century. This book uses internal company communications as a dataset to analyse the development of CSR over the past 70 years, making a detailed study of the Pirelli company in-house magazine, 'Fatte e Notizie' ('Facts and News'), which published between 1950 and 2019. Pirelli, today one of the world's leading tyre manufacturers, is considered the first Italian multinational and has had an international and innovative perspective on social responsibility from its founding. The company magazine represents a record of corporate culture and values over a period of enormous societal change. This book identifies three distinct eras of corporate responsibility, the paternalism of the 1950s and 60s, a period of confrontation from the 70s-90s and finally the shared responsibility perspective of our current era. It applies this structure to key themes of CSR, including women and gender, employee welfare, health and training. The book will be of great interest to students and scholars of business history, CSR and business ethics more broadly.

アメリカの最後の貸し手J.P.モルガン
Moen, Jon / Tone Rodgers, Mary, Before the Fed: J. P. Morgan, America's Lender of Last Resort. (Studies in Macroeconomic History) 250 pp. 2025:11 (Cambridge U. Pr., UK) <748-310>
ISBN 978-1-009-29154-5 hard ¥28,600.- (税込) GB￡ 100.00
ISBN 978-1-009-29156-9 paper ¥9,152.- (税込) GB￡ 32.00

In the 19th century the United States had no formal central bank or lender of last resort, but it did have J. P. Morgan. His unique knowledge of financial markets gave him almost omniscient knowledge for crafting solutions to financial crises. Before the Fed examines Morgan's unusual role in resolving the National Banking Era crises in the U. S., exploring the rocky relationships and ultimatums he used to settle financial panics. It traces how he learned crisis management from his father, passing them along to his son in turn. Citing his own ledgers, telegrams and testimony, Jon Moen and Mary Tone Rodgers details how Morgan applied and modified routine business practices to solve non-routine crises, managing risk and reward in emergency lending. Analyzing forty last resort loans made over his fifty-year career, the authors challenge the invincibility folklore surrounding Morgan, uncovering how he stabilized American markets when others could not.

広告の歴史必携
Crawford, Robert / Dickenson, Jackie (eds.), The Routledge Companion to the History of Advertising. (Routledge Companions in Marketing, Advertising and Communication) 420 pp. 2025:8 (Routledge, UK) <748-313>
ISBN 978-1-032-27246-7 hard ¥65,780.- (税込) GB￡ 230.00

With expansive global coverage from an international range of experts, this unique volume critically examines the stakeholders and influences on the production, dissemination, and consumption of advertising - from its early history via the development of mass advertising, to the emergence of the digital age. Advertising has been and remains one of the most visible and influential forms of communication globally and the advertising industry is valued in the hundreds of billions worldwide.While its size, reach, and influence has attracted considerable scholarly attention, the insights from its historical growth and development are less well understood, yet provide invaluable insights. This authoritative reference volume provides not only a critical overview of the state of current knowledge and research in advertising history, but also a global overview of the industry's growth and development.This Companion is a comprehensive source of current scholarship and debate on the history of advertising for advanced students, educators, and researchers in advertising, marketing, communication, and media studies, and will provide an invaluable one-stop literature resource for academics and informed professionals alike.

ルノーとロシア
Vinogradov, Boris, Renault et la Russie: une epopee de plus d'un siecle. (Mondes contemporains) 246 p. 2025:3 (Sorbonne U. Pr., FR) <748-315>
ISBN 979-10-231-0802-6 paper ¥6,714.- (税込) EUR 28.00

Richter, Konstantin, Dreihundert Maenner: Aufstieg und Fall einer grossen Industrienation. 550 S. 2025:10 (Suhrkamp, GW) <747-454>
ISBN 978-3-518-43252-5 hard ¥7,194.- (税込) EUR 30.00

Dreihundert deutsche Maenner, schrieb Walther Rathenau zu Beginn des 20. Jahrhunderts, bestimmten die wirtschaftlichen Geschicke des Kontinents. Er meinte das enge Geflecht aus Bankiers, Industriekapitaenen und Lobbyisten, das sich mit dem Aufstieg von Firmen wie der Allianz, Krupp oder Siemens herausgebildet hatte. Man kannte einander, man sprach miteinander ? und man sprach sich ab. Bis in die 1990er Jahre praegte dieses Netzwerk namens ≫Deutschland AG≪ die Politik und die Unternehmenskultur in der Bundesrepublik. Konstantin Richter montiert die Geschichten dieser Macher und Magnaten zu einer temporeichen szenischen Erzaehlung. In meisterhaft arrangierten Episoden laesst er ihre Welt zu unserer werden: Er begleitet Nicolaus Otto und Gottlieb Daimler bei der Gemueseernte, wo die beiden genauso erbittert konkurrieren wie bei der Entwicklung neuer Motoren. Richter sitzt mit am Tisch, wenn die Gebrueder Mannesmann in Marokko irrwitzige Intrigen spinnen, und er pendelt mit Thomas Middelhoff von Bielefeld nach Essen, wenn dieser sich mit seinem Hubschrauber auf den Weg ins Buero macht. So entsteht ein einzigartiges Epos, das rund 150 Jahre umspannt: von der Start-up-Nation Kaiserreich bis in die krisengebeutelte Gegenwart, vom Aufstieg der Deutschland AG bis zum ihrem Niedergang.

イギリスのオリンピックの管理の基礎
Gillett, Alex G. / Tennent, Kevin D., Foundations of Managing British Olympics: Institutions through Time. (Frontiers of Management History) 268 pp. 2025:9 (Emerald, UK) <747-456>
ISBN 978-1-80262-096-2 hard ¥22,869.- (税込) US$ 110.00

Foundations of Managing British Olympics: Institutions Through Time is an interdisciplinary study that examines the organisation, administration, and public benefits of Olympic Games in the United Kingdom. The book examines the 1908 and 1948 Olympic Games as well as the more recent 2012 Olympics Games and its long term legacy so far. The book draws upon archive materials held by the International Olympic Committee, UK national and local government, and FIFA. The long-term perspective adds to contemporary debates about the hosting of major sporting events and their wider impacts on business, the economy and society. The book combines the craft of the business historian with the methodology of the social scientist, to offer interdisciplinary perspectives on the management history field, alongside theories, frameworks, critiques, and applications for practice.

国際企業の歴史的進化
Nachum, Lilac / Yaprak, Attila (eds.), The Historical Evolution of International Business: Growth Trajectory of an Academic Field of Study. 374 pp. 2025:6 (Palgrave Macmillan, UK) <747-457>
ISBN 978-3-031-86132-1 hard ¥43,160.- (税込) EUR 179.99 *

This book represents the first and most comprehensive account of the history of International Business (IB) as a field of study. The chronicling of the evolution of IB thought, teaching, and institutions in a unified framework serves to observe the interdependencies among these components and demonstrates the ways by which they have jointly shaped IB as a field of study. The book is based on vast volumes of original material whose discussion and interpretation by leading IB scholars creates a dialogue between historical perspectives and contemporary developments and shows the critical role of history in understanding the current state and discourse of IB as a field of study. The book situates the history of IB within the broader context of business, political, and societal developments, and examines the interaction between external and internal forces as they have shaped the field's growth trajectory, both on its own and in comparison with those of other fields of study.

Iberg, Ludovic, Le grand patronat suisse et l'Europe (1957-1984): le role de Vorort face aux organisations patronales europeennes. (Histoire) 729 p. 2025:2 (Alphil, SZ) <746-372>
ISBN 978-2-88930-673-2 hard ¥8,393.- (税込) EUR 35.00

Jou-Badal, Xavier, The Recipe to Sweet Success: Competitive Advandates for a Chocolatier Family Dynasty, 1797 - 1936. (Frontiers of Familiy Economics) 224 pp. 2025:6 (Emerald, UK) <746-373>
ISBN 978-1-83662-231-4 hard ¥21,829.- (税込) US$ 105.00

多国籍企業－現代の世界史
Petitjean, Olivier / du Roy, Ivan, Multinationales: une histoire du monde contemporain. (Cahiers libres) 857 p. 2025:2 (La Decouverte, FR) <746-375>
ISBN 978-2-348-07707-4 paper ¥6,714.- (税込) EUR 28.00

Meil, Doug, The Rise and Fall of Explorys and IBM Watson Health: Healthcare Innovation and the Moonshot That Misfired. 272 pp. 2025:8 (Productivity Pr., US) <746-382>
ISBN 978-1-032-79360-3 hard ¥41,470.- (税込) GB￡ 145.00
ISBN 978-1-032-79359-7 paper ¥10,292.- (税込) GB￡ 35.99

In 2015, Explorys was a healthcare intelligence cloud company that had built one of the largest clinical data sets in the world, representing more than 50 million lives. It provided secure cloud-based solutions for clinical integration, at-risk population management, cost of care measurement, and pay-for-performance. The acquisition of Explorys complemented and strengthened the IBM Watson Health Cloud platform and empowered IBM's vast ecosystem of clients, partners, and medical researchers to surface new connections among diverse and previously siloed healthcare data sets. The combination of both Explorys and IBM Watson Health was expected to spur the creation of a new generation of data-driven application and solutions designed to advance health and wellness. So, what when wrong? IBM Watson Health is a massive case study in healthcare innovation gone awry. IBM was one of the oldest and largest technology companies in the world and was riding a tailwind with IBM Watson's Artificial Intelligence success on Jeopardy in 2011. The Watson Health division was seeded with multiple healthcare acquisitions, one of them being Explorys. Explorys had a portfolio of hosted population analytic solutions and the largest clinical dataset in the United States at the time at approximately 50 million de-duplicated patients. The newly created division was loaded with potential and seemed destined for success. Yet Watson Health went from being founded in April 2015 to imploding in May 2018 in a little over 3 years and took Explorys down with it. IBM Watson Health's ascent and descent were covered by both healthcare and mainstream media. Watson Health was self-described as IBM's "Moonshot" in healthcare. This venture failed, and it cost IBM billions of dollars. These were expensive lessons on managing innovation in healthcare, but also on managing innovation in general. This book chronicles the story of Explorys and IBM Watson Health and what led to its downfall in just 3 short years. Written by one of Explorys' founding engineers, the book relates the rise and fall of both Explorys and IBM Watson and provides a message for future tech entrepreneurs and IT managers alike.

アイルランドの国家建設－政府、企業、権力　1922～58年
Oliver, Emmet, Irish Nation Building: Government, Business and Power, 1922-1958. (Palgrave Studies in Economic History) 234 pp. 2025:4 (Palgrave Macmillan, UK) <745-264>
ISBN 978-3-031-84930-5 hard ¥31,170.- (税込) EUR 129.99 *

This book examines the early decades of economic nation building in Ireland. It draws on a large amount of previously unstudied archival material to construct a novel contribution to Irish business and economic history that focuses on government relations, business power and wider dynamics of power in a decolonising context. The book adopts a different approach to the early decades of Irish independence, decentering the typical focus on party political developments, Church-state relations and Anglo-Irish relations. Instead, the book explores the role of Irish businesses and services and their engagement with the governing elites of the time. More than just offering a general survey of Irish businesses in the early years of independence, the chapters of this book illuminate and analyse the 'commanding heights' of the economy, the Marxist term for the core distribution channels of capital and labour. In particular, the book focuses on four key strategic sectors - banking, insurance, shipping and rail - to analyse the tensions between the new Irish nationalist political elite and embedded business interests from the pre-independence era, how these led to the transformation of the Irish economic model by the late 1950s, and its gradual integration into a newly globalising world economy. This book will be essential reading for students and researchers of economic and business history, and Irish history and independence broadly.

いかにネスレ社が援助産業を形成したか
Wilhelm, Lola, Formulating Development: How Nestle Shaped the Aid Industry. (Humanitarianism: Key Debates and New Approaches) 288 pp. 2025:7 (Manchester U. Pr., UK) <744-275>
ISBN 978-1-5261-8099-5 hard ¥25,740.- (税込) GB￡ 90.00

In the 1970s, Nestle became a lightning rod for criticism against the food industry's negative impacts on humans and their environment, especially in the Global South. But what has so far eluded historical scrutiny is that the picture was more nuanced.This book tells the exclusive story of how the Swiss food giant, and more broadly corporate capitalism, have shaped the aid industry since the late nineteenth century. It follows Nestle's bid for a share of the humanitarian market brokered by the Red Cross in wartime Europe, of its clinical trials in Swiss and Senegalese maternities, and of its agricultural modernisation schemes in Mexico, India, and the Ivory Coast.Based on extensive research in the firm's own historical archives and the records of national and international aid agencies, the volume interrogates the legacies of this long history for international development today.

Aisenberg, Igal, Jewish Immigrants, Nationalism and Finance Sourcing in Argentina: Otherness and Industrial Entrepreneurship. (Jewish Latin America 18) 205 pp. 2025:6 (Brill, NE) <744-373>
ISBN 978-90-04-73211-7 hard ¥25,898.- (税込) EUR 108.00

"The book represents an innovative and outstanding contribution to the economic, social, and business history of Argentina. It focuses on the factors that conditioned the emergence and development, between 1930 and the early 1960s, of large industrial enterprises founded by Jewish immigrants, with emphasis on the absence of community financial institutions to support their creation and expansion. lt is characterized both by the relevance of the issues it addresses and by the author's ability to conduct original and solid research based on a non-dogmatic conceptual framework, on the analysis of a wide variety of unexplored sources, and the virtuous combination of different scales of observation." Professor Dr. Maria Ines Barbero, Universidad de Buenos Aires

P.-Y.ドンゼ著　ステータス・シンボルの形成－ロレックスの企業史
Donze, Pierre-Yves, The Making of a Status Symbol: A Business History of Rolex. 280 pp. 2025:6 (Manchester U. Pr., UK) <744-374>
ISBN 978-1-5261-8326-2 hard ¥24,310.- (税込) GB￡ 85.00 *
ISBN 978-1-5261-8841-0 paper ¥5,720.- (税込) GB￡ 20.00 *

Discover the fascinating story behind Rolex, the world's most iconic luxury watch brand. In The making of a status symbol, acclaimed business historian Pierre-Yves Donze offers a captivating and deeply researched exploration of how a small Swiss watch company transformed itself into a global emblem of success, wealth and prestige.Challenging the myth that Rolex's dominance is solely due to superior craftsmanship, Donze reveals the brand's strategic partnership with an American advertising agency and its genius for storytelling, which allowed it to turn a simple timepiece into a powerful status symbol. Spanning the twentieth century, this book provides a compelling case study of how creative industries have shaped consumer culture and the global luxury market.This book is a must-read for anyone fascinated by fashion and luxury, the evolution of consumer culture or the power of branding. Whether you're a scholar, student or general reader intrigued by the enduring allure of Rolex, The making of a status symbol offers an engaging and insightful journey through the history of a brand that has become synonymous with excellence and success.

Boyd, Kendra D., Freedom Enterprise: Black Entrepreneurship and Racial Capitalism in Detroit. (American Business, Politics, and Society) 368 pp. 2025:5 (U. Pennsylvania Pr., US) <742-198>
ISBN 978-1-5128-2742-2 hard ¥9,355.- (税込) US$ 45.00 *

Traces the rise and fall of the historic Black business community in Detroit The Great Migration saw more than six million African Americans leave the US South between 1910 and 1970. Though the experiences of migrant laborers are well-known, countless African Americans also left the South to pursue entrepreneurial opportunities and viewed business as key to Black liberation. Detroit's status as a mecca for Black entrepreneurship illuminates this overlooked aspect of the Great Migration story. In Freedom Enterprise, Kendra D. Boyd uses "migrant entrepreneurship" as a lens through which to understand the entwined histories of Black-owned business, racial capitalism, and urban space. Freedom Enterprise follows Black Southerners' journeys to Detroit during the initial wave of migration in the 1910s and 1920s, through their efforts to build a prosperous Black business community in the 1930s and 1940s, to the destruction of that community through urban renewal projects and freeway construction in the 1950s and 1960s. Combining business and social history methods to analyze an eclectic archive, Boyd chronicles migrant entrepreneurs' experiences, highlighting tales of racial and economic violence, Black women's business organizing, illegal business, communist entrepreneurs, and cooperative economics. Boyd uses the framework of racial capitalism to examine migrant entrepreneurs' experiences in twentieth-century America. In the Jim Crow South, African Americans worried about white mobs taking away their property, wealth, and lives. Though they sought refuge in Detroit, migrant entrepreneurs subsequently faced the loss of their livelihoods and the businesses they had spent decades building to the bulldozers of state-sponsored urban redevelopment initiatives. Southern migrants' "freedom enterprise"-their undertaking of attaining freedom through business-was curtailed by the reality of operating within the confines of US racial capitalism. In tracing Black entrepreneurs across the Great Migration, Freedom Enterprise provides important insights into African Americans' activism for racial and economic justice and continued racialized wealth disparities.

1945年以降のアメリカの多国籍企業のその競争相手
Schaufelbuehl, Janick Marina, Crusading for Globalization: US Multinationals and Their Opponents Since 1945. (American Business, Politics, and Society) 320 pp. 2025:2 (U. Pennsylvania Pr., US) <742-203>
ISBN 978-1-5128-2715-6 hard ¥11,434.- (税込) US$ 55.00 *

The first book to shed light on what caused corporate executives to pursue a pro-globalization agenda over the last eight decades Crusading for Globalization tells the story of an extraordinarily influential group of business executives at the helms of the largest US multinational corporations and their quest to drive globalization forward over the last eight decades. Janick Marina Schaufelbuehl argues that the spectacular expansion of international investment, trade, and production after 1945 cannot be understood without considering the role played by these corporate globalizers and the organization they created, the US Council (today's United States Council for International Business). By shaping governmental policy through their congressional lobbying and close connections to successive presidential administrations, US Council members, including executives from General Electric, Coca Cola, and IBM, among others, consistently fought for ever more market deregulation, culminating in the creation of the World Trade Organization in 1995. Crusading for Globalization is also a book about those who opposed the growing might of multinationals. In the years immediately after World War II, resistance came from business protectionists, before labor and policymakers from the Global South joined the effort in the early 1970s. Schaufelbuehl breaks new ground by offering a panorama of this early anti-globalization movement, and by showing how the leaders of multinationals organized to limit its political influence. She also examines continuities between this early movement and the opposition to globalization that emerged at the beginning of the twenty-first century from the left and the populist right and discusses how business responded by promoting corporate social responsibility and voluntary guidelines. The first book to shed light on what caused corporate executives to pursue a pro-globalization agenda and to examine their methods for dealing with their opponents, Crusading for Globalization reveals the historical roots of today's disparities in wealth and income distribution.

Bott, Sandra / Pitteloud, S. / Schaufelbuehl, J. M. (eds.), Environmental Regulation and the History of Capitalism: The Role of Business from Stockholm 1972 to the Climate Crisis. (Routledge International Studies in Business History) 212 pp. 2025:5 (Routledge, UK) <742-204>
ISBN 978-1-032-84464-0 hard ¥41,470.- (税込) GB￡ 145.00 *

This edited collection examines the historical role of business actors in climate and environmental governance since the 1970s. Through a compilation of recent, evidence-based historical research, this book unveils the origins of contemporary challenges in regulating environmental pollution. With original case studies, it offers a nuanced understanding of the environmental counter-offensive orchestrated by business leaders, associations, and think tanks post-1972, following the United Nations' pivotal Stockholm Conference on the Human Environment. Readers are presented with insights into the historical maneuvers of business entities aimed at mitigating regulatory risks, co-creating expertise, and framing the environmental debate. From revealing the tactics employed by various business actors to exploring the emergence of market-driven environmentalism, this volume offers a comprehensive exploration of the intricate dynamics shaping environmental policy. By contextualizing specificities and complexities, it enriches contemporary narratives on business influence and power dynamics within global capitalism. This book primarily caters to scholars across diverse historical disciplines, including business history, international relations, environmental history, and the history of capitalism. Additionally, it holds relevance for social scientists studying contemporary issues, policymakers grappling with environmental challenges, and those seeking a deeper understanding of the historical dimensions of climate governance.The Open Access version of this book, available at http://www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC BY-NC-ND) 4.0 license.

Seabrook, John, The Spinach King: The Rise and Fall of an American Dynasty. 368 pp. 2025:7 (Norton, US) <741-392>
ISBN 978-1-324-00352-6 hard ¥6,650.- (税込) US$ 31.99

"Having left this material for his writer son, my father must have wanted the story told, even if he couldn't bear to tell it himself." So begins the multigenerational story of a forgotten American dynasty, a farming family from the bean fields of southern New Jersey that became as wealthy, glamorous and powerful as Gilded Age aristocrats. The autocratic patriarch, C. F. Seabrook, was hailed as the "Henry Ford of agriculture". His son Jack, a keen businessman, was poised to take over what Life called "the biggest vegetable factory on earth." But the carefully cultivated facade-glamorous outings by horse-drawn carriage, hidden cellars of world-class wine and movie stars skinny-dipping in the pool-hid dark secrets that led to the implosion of the family business. In a compulsively readable story of class and privilege, betrayal and revenge, John Seabrook explores his complicated family legacy and dark corners of the American Dream.

ヴァイマルから今日までのドイツ企業における事業所委員会
Berger, Stefan / Hohmeyer, Andrea (Hrsg.), Betriebsraete in deutschen Unternehmen von der Weimarer Republik bis heute. (Sozialgeschichte in Bewegung 73) 266 S. 2024:9 (Boehlau, GW) <741-395>
ISBN 978-3-412-53152-2 hard ¥11,750.- (税込) EUR 49.00 *

Die deutsche Kultur der Mitbestimmung ist integraler Bestandteil eines Verstaendnisses von sozialer Demokratie als Ergaenzung der politischen Demokratie der Bundesrepublik Deutschland. Sie wird in dem hier vorgelegten Band von ihren Anfaengen in den Jahren der Weimarer Republik bis zu unserer Gegenwart in ihren unterschiedlichen Facetten untersucht. Dabei wird deutlich, wie sehr mitbestimmte Unternehmen nicht nur wirtschaftlich effizienter waren und sind, sondern auch demokratische Teilhabe ihrer Beschaeftigten versprechen. Als Labore der Demokratie sind sie die Grundlage eines ?eingebetteten Kapitalismus‘ im Sinne Karl Polanyis, der eben nicht nur nach dem ?stakeholder value‘ fragt, sondern sich auch sozialer Gerechtigkeit verpflichtet sieht. Die hier versammelten Beitraege verdeutlichen, wie zentral die Mitbestimmung fuer das demokratische Selbstverstaendnis der Bundesrepublik war und wie Modelle kuenftiger Mitbestimmung in Zukunft mehr Demokratie hervorbringen koennen.

フロイデンベルク社－革命におけるスタート・アップ
Knop, Carsten, Freudenberg: Ein Start-up der Revolution. 550 S. 2024:7 (Campus, GW) <741-396>
ISBN 978-3-593-51861-9 hard ¥9,112.- (税込) EUR 38.00 *

Zum ersten Mal seit seiner Gruendung vor 175 Jahren, mitten in der Revolution von 1848/49, hat das Familienunternehmen Freudenberg aus dem badischen Weinheim seine Unternehmensgeschichte vollstaendig quellenbasiert aufbereiten lassen. Entstanden ist ein Buch nicht nur fuer die Familie Freudenberg und alle Mitarbeiterinnen und Mitarbeiter, sondern auch fuer historisch Interessierte, die einen ≫Wirtschaftsroman≪ aus dem wirklichen Leben lesen wollen. Wenn ein Unternehmen ueber alle Umbrueche hinweg ? angefangen bei der Gruendung des Kaiserreichs ueber den Ersten Weltkrieg, die Hyperinflation der 1920er Jahre, die Weltwirtschaftskrise, die Nazi-Diktatur, den Zweiten Weltkrieg, die Gruendung der Bundesrepublik bis hin zu einer sich globalisierenden Welt, einer Pandemie und der Digitalisierung ? prosperiert, wenn es allen Bedrohungen trotzt, wenn es dabei erfinderisch und sozial engagiert bleibt, dann ist das eine wirklich gute Geschichte. In diesem Buch beschreibt Carsten Knop nicht nur die Protagonisten, sondern auch, wie sich das Unternehmen immer wieder neu erfindet und bis heute erfolgreich bleibt.

〔英語版〕フロイデンベルク社－革命におけるスタート・アップ
Knop, Carsten, Freudenberg: A Start-up in a Revolution. 536 S. 2024:7 (Campus, GW) <741-397>
ISBN 978-3-593-51964-7 hard ¥9,112.- (税込) EUR 38.00 *

For the first time since it was established 175 years ago, in the middle of the 1848/49 revolution, the Freudenberg family enterprise from the southern German town of Weinheim has had a completely source-based company history compiled. The result is a book that is not just for the Freudenberg family and all Freudenberg’s employees, but also for history lovers who would like to read a ≫business novel≪ from real life. If a company prospers through all upheavals ? starting with the foundation of the German Empire, through World War I, the hyperinflation of the 1920s, the Great Depression, the Nazi dictatorship, World War II, the foundation of the Federal Republic of Germany, right up to a globalized world with a pandemic and digitalization ? and if it defies all menaces, if it remains inventive and socially committed throughout, then that is a really good story. In this book, Carsten Knop describes not just the protagonists, but also how the company reinvents itself time and again and remains successful up to the present day.

Milert, Werner, Auf verlorenem Posten?: Die Praxis der Betriebsraete in den Aufsichtsraeten in der Weimarer Republik. (Sozialgeschichte in Bewegung 74) 323 S. 2024:10 (Boehlau, GW) <741-398>
ISBN 978-3-412-53177-5 hard ¥11,750.- (税込) EUR 49.00 *

Das ?Gesetz ueber die Entsendung von Betriebsratsmitgliedern in den Aufsichtsrat“ vom 15.2.1922 ist die Geburtsstunde der Unternehmensmitbestimmung in Deutschland. Erstmals wurde die institutionelle Berufung von maximal zwei Arbeitnehmervertretern in die unternehmerischen Kontrollorgane rechtlich fixiert. In der Praxis stiess diese erste gesetzliche Fixierung der Unternehmensmitbestimmung in der Weimarer Republik jedoch in vielen Unternehmen auf erbitterten Widerstand. Insbesondere die Schwerindustrie verharrte in einer Kooperationsunwilligkeit gegenueber den Interessenvertretungen; die Betriebsraete wurden in den Aufsichtsraeten von wichtigen Informationen und Entscheidungen ausgeschlossen und zu Aufsichtsratsmitgliedern zweiter Klasse degradiert. Dagegen arrangierten sich die Arbeitgeber der ?neuen“ Industrien, insbesondere der chemischen und elektrotechnischen, mit den neuen gesetzlichen Bestimmungen, die der Weimarer Staat gesetzt hatte.

Curts, Kati, Assembling Religion: The Ford Motor Company and the Transformation of Religion in America. 304 pp. 2025:5 (New York U. Pr., US) <740-125>
ISBN 978-1-4798-3158-6 hard ¥8,108.- (税込) US$ 39.00 *

How Henry Ford institutionalized a social gospel Henry Ford did not just mass produce cars. As a member of the Episcopal Church, reader of New Thought texts, believer in the "gospel of reincarnation," mass marketer of antisemitic material, and employer who institutionalized a social gospel, Henry Ford's contributions to American models of business were informed by and produced for an America he understood to be broadly Christian. Though Ford's efforts at the head of the Ford Motor Company have commonly been understood as secular, Ford himself was explicit that his work in engineering and auto production was prophetic and meant to remake the world. This religious history of Henry Ford and the Ford Motor Company repositions them within critical studies of religion, examining how Ford transformed American religious practice in the twentieth century. Drawing directly on documents from Ford's archive, it examines Ford's mass production methods and bureaucratic reforms as examples of prosperity gospel traditions, illuminating the ways manufacturing and technology intersect with American religious practice. Bridging American religious and industrial history, Assembling Religion offers a new and surprising way to understand Ford's impact on culture, commerce, and the technology of labor.

ナチ期におけるSueddeutsche Zucker-AG
Grieger, Manfred, Die Sueddeutsche Zucker-AG im Nationalsozialismus: Zuckererzeugung, Nazifizierung, Zwangsarbeit, Kontinuitaet. 240 S. 2025:5 (Wallstein Vlg., GW) <739-215>
ISBN 978-3-8353-5819-5 hard ¥5,755.- (税込) EUR 24.00

Vom Feld ueber die Zuckerfabrik zum Verbrauch ? Zucker gab den Nationalsozialisten und der Kriegswirtschaft Energie. Ernaehrung war ein wichtiger Baustein nationalsozialistischer Politik, die nach 1933 und dem wirtschaftlichen Aufschwung auch darauf abzielte, die deutsche Gesellschaft auf den kommenden Krieg vorzubereiten. Die Nahrungsmittelindustrie und somit auch die 1926 entstandene Sueddeutsche Zucker-AG spielten bei diesen Plaenen eine wichtige Rolle. Das Unternehmen war sich dessen durchaus bewusst. So entfernte der Mannheimer Zucker-Konzern bis 1937 ohne groessere Widerstaende sukzessive juedische Anteilseigner, Vorstands- und Aufsichtsmitglieder aus den Gremien und folgte damit der Politik des NS-Regimes. Die dezentral organisierten Zuckerfabriken griffen die Wachstumsimpulse der NS-Zeit auf und zogen in grosser Zahl auslaendische Zwangsarbeiterinnen und Zwangsarbeiter heran. Auch deutsche Juden, Sinti und Roma wurden an einzelnen Standorten ausgebeutet. Manfred Grieger zeichnet nach, wie das Unternehmen im sich staendig wiederholenden Rhythmus der Zuckerkampagnen ? dem jaehrlichen Zeitraum der Ernte und Verarbeitung der Zuckerrueben ? den Uebergang in die NS-Diktatur und den Krieg fand. Zucker war auch direkt nach Kriegsende begehrt und so bereiteten die Beteiligten teilweise noch zu Kriegszeiten nahezu bruchlos die erste Nachkriegskampagne vor.

第二次世界大戦以降の女性の企業家精神の台頭
Michals, Debra, She's the Boss: The Rise of Women's Entrepreneurship since World War II. 212 pp. 2025:4 (Rutgers U. Pr., US) <739-217>
ISBN 978-1-9788-1817-0 hard ¥29,106.- (税込) US$ 140.00 *
ISBN 978-1-9788-1816-3 paper ¥6,849.- (税込) US$ 32.95 *

In the years after World War II, as women were being pushed from wartime jobs for returning soldiers, government and business leaders-and women themselves-saw small business ownership as a viable economic solution. In just five years, US women owned nearly a million of the nation's businesses. In the decades since, women have moved increasingly into business ownership, often outpacing male start-ups so that today, they own more than fourteen million businesses, 40 percent of all US companies. She's the Boss chronicles the forces that made entrepreneurship attractive to women. In rich detail, Debra Michals shares the stories of the countless women of all races, ethnicities, genders, and abilities who contributed to this important history. The book also explores the intersection of women's personal choices within changing social, political, and economic factors, such as the rising divorce rates of the 1960s and 1970s, ongoing workplace and credit discrimination, civil and women's rights activism and activist entrepreneurs, the 1970s recession and 1980s "Reagan Revolution," and more recently, the internet, crowd-funding, and social entrepreneurship.

〔英訳〕ヘンケル社－洗剤製造業者からグローバル企業へ
Scholtyseck, Joachim, Henkel: From a Detergent Manufacturer to a Global Company. Uebersetzt von P. Sutcliffe et al. 800 S. 2025:5 (Beck, GW) <739-218>
ISBN 978-3-406-83062-4 hard ¥23,500.- (税込) EUR 98.00

da Silva Lopes, Teresa / Duguid, Paul / Fredona, R. (eds.), Climate Change and Business: Historical Perspectives. 346 pp. 2025:3 (Routledge, UK) <738-312>
ISBN 978-1-032-76339-2 hard ¥41,470.- (税込) GB￡ 145.00 *
ISBN 978-1-032-76336-1 paper ¥14,010.- (税込) GB￡ 48.99 *

Climate change is the greatest market failure in world history and thus the most urgent challenge in the world of business for the foreseeable future. This book brings together experts to shed light on the historical impact of business on climate change and of climate change on business.The book shows how corporate responses to climate change emerged out of earlier environmental concerns, regulatory frameworks, and in many cases already established business strategies. Contributors to the book analyse the evolution of business strategies to navigate environmental challenges even before climate crisis was widely recognised as an urgent concern.The historical insights presented by this book will be essential reading for business historians, as well as students, scholars, and reflective practitioners with an interest in the environment, political economy, business strategy, and risk management.

Di Piazza, Guy, The Business Strategies of the Major Hollywood Film Studios (1929-2024). (Routledge Studies in Media Theory and Practice) 376 pp. 2025:2 (Routledge, UK) <737-428>
ISBN 978-1-032-30158-7 hard ¥41,470.- (税込) GB￡ 145.00 *

Surveying the strategies employed by film studios to market and produce their most successful films between 1929 and present day, this book incorporates multilayered comprehensive analysis on the media industry and how it works. Author and business strategist Guy Di Piazza draws on over 25 years of experience and provides insights into the corporate, business, market and production strategies of the leading motion picture companies through a 95- year history. Investigating the initiatives employed particularly for the most successful (or premium) films allows Guy to evaluate the commercial and creative strategies of the major film studios during four distinct historical periods: The golden age of Hollywood (1929- 1949); Hollywood in decline and in transition (1950- 1966); The new American cinema (1967- 1976); and The era of media giants (1977- 2024). With extensive business strategy analysis, this book assesses the film industry from a commercial and economic perspective to bring better understanding to readers as to how the major studios have evolved over time and what that means for today's digitally connected world. Ideal for researchers and advanced students studying film business and the media industry, as well as professionals in the film business.

Matthiasdottir, Sigridur, Entrepreneurship and Agency as Lived Experience: A Transnational Biography of Palina Waage (1864-1935). (Palgrave Studies in the History of Experience) 311 pp. 2024:11 (Palgrave Macmillan, UK) <737-429>
ISBN 978-3-031-71088-9 hard ¥31,170.- (税込) EUR 129.99 *

Historical research into female entrepreneurs has become a burgeoning field in recent years. However, there is still a lack of studies of businesswomen based on their personal documents, and such documents seem to be rare. This book, an appraisal of the nineteenth- and early twentieth-century East-Icelandic businesswoman Palina Waage (1864-1935), fills that gap. It investigates the agency of a small-scale female entrepreneur, primarily based on her autobiography, diaries and letters, using the methodology of the history of experience and 'lived experience'.

アフリカ系アメリカ人の経営史　第2版
Prieto, Leon C. / Phipps, Simone T. A., African American Management History: Insights on Gaining a Cooperative Advantage. 2nd ed. 184 pp. 2025:3 (Emerald, UK) <737-430>
ISBN 978-1-83608-959-9 paper ¥21,829.- (税込) US$ 105.00 *

In this second edition of African American Management History: Insights on Gaining a Cooperative Advantage, authors Leon C. Prieto and Simone T. A. Phipps dive deep into the powerful legacy of African American management thought. With a new foreword by Stuart Crainer, Co-founder of Thinkers50, this edition builds on its groundbreaking predecessor by exploring rich narratives of Black business pioneers and the enduring relevance of African philosophies like Ubuntu in today's corporate landscape. New chapters include "Cooperative Enterprises Matter: Historic Insights from W.E.B. Du Bois & William Matney," advocating for a transformative shift in how Black business schools approach teaching-beyond the confines of unbridled capitalism. Another new chapter, "Reimagining the Next Golden Age," highlights contemporary Black leaders who are shaping a future of resilience, sustainability, and inclusivity. Prieto and Phipps offer a masterclass in responsible management, showcasing how leaders like Charles Clinton Spaulding, Maggie Lena Walker, Annie Turnbo-Malone, and others used community-centered practices to build enduring enterprises. By embracing African centered philosophies, these pioneers gained a cooperative advantage, fostering an environment where care, collaboration, and mutual success thrived. This edition goes beyond a historical recount; it serves as a guide for navigating modern business complexities with wisdom, empathy, and a focus on long-term success. An essential read for students, managers, and entrepreneurs, this book challenges traditional business paradigms and invites readers to incorporate cooperative strategies for a more inclusive and just world.

Aldous, Michael / Turner, John D., The CEO: The Rise and Fall of Britain's Captains of Industry. 315 pp. 2025:6 (Cambridge U. Pr., UK) <736-410>
ISBN 978-1-009-48952-2 hard ¥7,150.- (税込) GB￡ 25.00 *

The CEOs of Britain's largest companies wield immense power, but we know very little about them. How did they get to the top? Why do they have so much power? Are they really worth that exorbitant salary? Michael Aldous and John Turner provide the answers by telling the story of the British CEO over the past century. From gentleman amateurs to professional managers, entrepreneurs, frauds, and fat cats, they reveal the characters who have made it to the top of the corporate ladder, how they got there, and what their rise tells us about British society. They show how the quality of their leadership influences productivity, innovation, economic development and, ultimately, Britain's place in the world. More recently, issues have arisen regarding high CEO pay, poor performance, and a lack of professionalisation and diversity. Are there lessons from history for those who would seek to reform Britain's flagging corporate economy?

Baker, Erik, Make Your Own Job: How the Entrepreneurial Work Ethic Exhausted America. 352 pp. 2025:1 (Harvard U. Pr., US) <735-279>
ISBN 978-0-674-29360-1 hard ¥7,276.- (税込) US$ 35.00 *

A sweeping new history of the changing meaning of work in the United States, from Horatio Alger to Instagram influencers.How Americans think about work changed profoundly over the course of the twentieth century. Thrift and persistence came to seem old-fashioned. Successful workers were increasingly expected to show initiative and enthusiasm for change-not just to do their jobs reliably but to create new opportunities for themselves and for others. Our culture of work today is more demanding than ever, even though workers haven't seen commensurate rewards.Make Your Own Job explains how this entrepreneurial work ethic took hold, from its origins in late nineteenth-century success literature to the gig economy of today, sweeping in strange bedfellows: Marcus Garvey and Henry Ford, Avon ladies and New Age hippies. Business schools and consultants exhorted managers to cultivate the entrepreneurial spirit in their subordinates, while an industry of self-help authors synthesized new ideas from psychology into a vision of work as "self-realization." Policy experts embraced the new ethic as a remedy for urban and Third World poverty. Every social group and political tendency, it seems, has had its own exemplary entrepreneurs.Historian Erik Baker argues that the entrepreneurial work ethic has given meaning to work in a world where employment is ever more precarious--and in doing so, has helped legitimize a society of mounting economic insecurity and inequality. From the advent of corporate capitalism in the Gilded Age to the economic stagnation of recent decades, Americans have become accustomed to the reality that today's job may be gone tomorrow. Where work is hard to find and older nostrums about diligent effort fall flat, the advice to "make your own job" keeps hope alive.

現代組織の形成－第一次産業革命から第四次産業革命まで
Turner, Paul, The Making of the Modern Organisation: From the First to the Fourth Industrial Revolution. 332 pp. 2024:12 (Palgrave Macmillan, UK) <734-384>
ISBN 978-3-031-70046-0 hard ¥35,966.- (税込) EUR 149.99 *

The Fourth Industrial Revolution will transform the global competitive landscape and as such require a radical response from organisations operating in complex, knowledge-based economies. Much like previous phases of economic, social and technological changes, there is an assumption that existing technologies will become obsolete and alternative sources of value creation must be found. These assumptions will create significant opportunities in the next revolutionary cycle, but to take advantage of these will require a new business model and organisational constructs. In charting the course of structures and dynamics over the first Three Industrial Revolutions, this book offers points of learning that can be applied to the Fourth. It offers a discussion about how organisations have emerged over time and how they learnt to adapt to industrial revolution and economic upheaval. Covering conceptual ideas about organisations as collections of individuals, the book will also highlight the practice of organisation from the First to the Fourth Industrial Revolution with examples across Europe the USA and Asia. Building on the ideas and concepts in The Making of the Modern Manager, this book explores the changing business contexts through industrial revolutions, the practice of organisation in response to these changes, the theory of organisation and the definition of organisation

Boccia, Mario, Krise im "Wirtschaftswunder": Fordistische Betriebspolitik und Produktionsarbeit bei BMW von 1960 bis 1973. (Quellen und Darstellungen zur Zeitgeschichte 150) 384 S. 2024:12 (de Gruyter Oldenbourg, GW) <733-424>
ISBN 978-3-11-154623-0 hard ¥15,574.- (税込) EUR 64.95 *

Erst mit Beginn der 1960er Jahre gelang es dem Muenchner Automobilhersteller BMW, zur allgemeinen Prosperitaetsentwicklung der bundesdeutschen Nachkriegszeit aufzuschliessen. Im ?Wirtschaftswunder" angekommen, sah sich das Unternehmen schlagartig mit den strukturellen Herausforderungen des Booms konfrontiert: Die steigende Nachfrage nach BMW-Modellen brachte die Notwendigkeit mit sich, die Produktion massiv auszuweiten und neue Fertigungsmethoden zu implementieren. Die Einstellung der erforderlichen Arbeiter stellte aufgrund des Mangels an Arbeitskraeften in Zeiten der Vollbeschaeftigung jedoch ein grosses Problem dar. Mario Boccia untersucht in seiner Studie die Betriebspolitik der Unternehmensfuehrung und deren Auswirkungen auf die Produktionsbelegschaft: Neben der ?Gastarbeiterbeschaeftigung", sozial- und personalpolitischen Massnahmen sowie der Intensivierung der menschlichen Arbeit steht auch die Rolle des Betriebsrats im Fokus. Die mit der fordistischen Produktionsweise einhergehende Unzufriedenheit bei den Mitarbeitern zeitigte zwei Resultate: Die Zunahme von fabrikinternen linksradikalen Protesten sowie die am Anfang der 1970er Jahre einsetzende ?Humanisierung" der Arbeit.

グローバルな家族の資本主義－経営史の視点
Fernandez Perez, Paloma (ed.), Global Family Capitalism: A Business History Perspective. (Routledge International Studies in Business History) 350 pp. 2024:12 (Routledge, UK) <733-425>
ISBN 978-1-032-47849-4 hard ¥44,330.- (税込) GB￡ 155.00 *

Emphasizing the diversity of regional and national models, this book explores the history of transformation of family businesses around the world during the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries.Expert contributors explore place-based family capitalism and the local embeddedness of family businesses, looking at how and why this family capitalism was transformed during the globalization and de-globalization periods in the last century. It explores the variation in the adaptations and transformation undertaken by family businesses in response to changes in technology, globalization, ideology, and institutions, as well as world wars, pandemics, and economic crises. The book also evaluates the relationship between changes in the internal organization and strategies of family businesses with external forces such as the political ideologies, changing ideas about the very nature of what constitutes a family, and changes in how the State has perceived families and family businesses in the world. The book also shows that despite all profound transformations in family capitalism, these businesses have remained resilient entrepreneurial forces and strong creators of wealth and employment.This book will be of great interest to readers in business and economic history, family business, and entrepreneurship.

Spoerer, Mark / Goetz, Martin, Von einer NS-Autarkiegruendung zum Exportunternehmen: Die Entwicklung des Chemiefaserwerks in Kelheim 1935 bis 2004. (Beitraege zur Unternehmensgeschichte 38) 144 S. 2025 (F. Steiner, GW) <733-426>
ISBN 978-3-515-13777-5 paper ¥11,750.- (税込) EUR 49.00 *

Um Devisen beim Baumwollimport zu sparen, regte das NS-Regime seit 1934 die Gruendung von regionalen Zellwollewerken an, in denen aus heimischem Zellstoff (halb)synthetische Textilfasern hergestellt wurden. Eigentuemer dieser Werke waren regionale Textilunternehmen. Eines entstand 1935/36 im niederbayerischen Kelheim. Mark Spoerer und Martin Goetz zeigen, dass dessen Gruendung keineswegs Resultat einer von oben oktroyierten Entscheidung war, sondern viele sueddeutsche Textilunternehmen ein eigenes Interesse hatten, sich an dieser neuen Technologie zu beteiligen. Obwohl zur Importsubstitution gegruendet, entwickelte sich das Werk nach dem Zweiten Weltkrieg zu einem ausgesprochenen Exportunternehmen. Fuer den sich globalisierenden Weltmarkt erwies es sich jedoch als zu klein, so dass es 1968 von Hoechst uebernommen wurde. In den 1970er und 1980er Jahren nahm Hoechst umfangreiche Investitionen vor, insbesondere im Bereich des Umweltschutzes. 1993/94 trennte sich Hoechst von der Chemiefasersparte. Es gehoert zur Ironie in der Geschichte dieses Werks, dass es gerade diese fruehen Umweltinvestitionen waren, die ihm in der Folgezeit das Ueberleben in konzerninternen Standortwettbewerben sicherte.

Taylor, James, Sexism in the City: Women Stockbrokers in Modern Britain. 320 pp. 2025:3 (Oxford U. Pr., UK) <733-427>
ISBN 978-0-19-887981-7 hard ¥28,314.- (税込) GB￡ 99.00 *

Sexism in the City is the first book to trace the history of women stockbrokers in the United Kingdom from the late nineteenth to the late twentieth centuries. Forgotten pioneers, these businesswomen fought against the odds to establish successful brokerages across the country and in the process, challenged society's beliefs about women and money. The book also tells the story of how the nation's stock exchanges denied them membership for generations, mobilizing increasingly desperate arguments to try to justify their exclusion, until women finally won the right to join the London Stock Exchange in 1973. Though historians have recently reassessed women's role in the development of capitalism, highlighting their roles as investors and entrepreneurs, they have assumed that because women were not members of stock exchanges, they were not active as financial intermediaries until modern times. By spotlighting the lives and careers of women who worked as stockbrokers outside male-monopolized institutions, this book reframes the historical development of finance in several ways. It highlights the extent to which the seemingly gender-neutral institutions and practices of finance were, in fact, based on gendered ideologies and exclusions. It argues that focusing on institutions only reveals part of the financial ecosystem, meaning that we miss what was happening outside the formal market. And it challenges London-centric interpretations of financial history, asking questions about the financial cultures existing outside the metropolis. If we look beyond the official exchanges--and beyond London--a more diverse financial environment comes into view. The history uncovered in Sexism in the City also helps to address problems with financial culture in the twenty-first century. Current reform initiatives are unlikely to succeed unless they acknowledge that for hundreds of years, professional identities and institutional structures in finance have been based on the denigration and marginalization of women. Acknowledging the efforts of those female stockbrokers who challenged misogynistic beliefs and defied men's monopoly of high finance by forging their own careers is the first step towards imagining a different kind of market.

Thiel, Maximilian, "Des Koenigs muede Erben": Zur Krise des Stumm-Konzerns 1965-1974. (Beitraege zur Wirtschafts- und Sozialgeschichte 137) 376 S. 2025:3 (F. Steiner, GW) <733-428>
ISBN 978-3-515-13721-8 paper ¥15,826.- (税込) EUR 66.00

利益と迫害－ナチ経済とホロコーストにおけるドイツの大企業
Hayes, Peter, Profits and Persecution: German Big Business in the Nazi Economy and the Holocaust. 224 pp. 2024:12 (Cambridge U. Pr., UK) <732-274>
ISBN 978-0-521-77288-4 hard ¥7,150.- (税込) GB￡ 25.00 *

What role did German big business play in the persecution of European Jews during the Holocaust? What were its motivations? And how did it respond to changing social and economic circumstances after the war? Profits and Persecution examines how the leaders of Germany's largest industrial and financial enterprises played a key part in the catastrophes and crimes of their nation in the first half of the twentieth century. Drawing on evidence concerning the roughly one hundred most significant German firms of the Nazi era, Peter Hayes explores how large German corporations dealt with Jews, their property, and their labor. This study unites business history and the history of the Holocaust to consider both the economic and personal motivations that rendered German corporate leaders complicit in the actions of the Nazi Party. In doing so, it demonstrates how ordinary, familiar thought processes came to serve the ideological purposes of the Third Reich with lethal consequences.

山崎敏夫著　ドイツにおける産業と銀行の関係
Yamazaki, Toshio, Relationships Between Industry and Bank in Germany: A Historical Study of Personnel Connection Built Through Interlocking Directorate and Bank's Advisory Council System. 550 pp. 2024:10 (Springer, GW) <732-275>
ISBN 978-981-9749-95-9 hard ¥31,170.- (税込) EUR 129.99 *

The objective of this book is to elucidate the characteristics and significance of the relationships between industry and banks in Germany. This is the first book to undertake a historical and comprehensive examination of the personnel connections established through the interlocking directorates and the bank's advisory council system, using cases of Deutsche Bank, Dresdner Bank, and Commerzbank. This book addresses the mandates of the chairman and vice chairman and the distribution of industrial sectors to which companies belong. It also considers the personnel relations that are built and maintained. The book considers both direct and indirect interlocking directorates comprising the members of top management organs, namely the supervisory board and board of directors. It also examines the personnel networks therein, including those of second- and third-party enterprises, by applying social network analysis. In addition, the book examines the conditions for members of central and regional advisory councils and their top management positions. Furthermore, the functions supported by inter-firm personnel relationships via interlocking directorates and banks' advisory council systems are examined in terms of information symmetry and conflict resolution, and coordination of the interests among enterprises. This book explores the interlocking directorate processes from bank to industry and vice versa, wherein the common recognition of a management issue is promoted through the information flow and media based on personnel connections. The book explains the system by which various conflicting interests among enterprises are resolved through discussion rather than market competition. It also elucidates the industry-bank relationships and their changes in the history of the development of German capitalism and enterprises. Thus, it provides a combined analysis of the structure and function of the personnel connections of large German banks.

山崎敏夫著　日本の企業とドイツの企業－産業集中システムと企業経営の比較
Yamazaki, Toshio, Japanese and German Enterprises: Comparison of Industrial Cocentration System and Business Management. 524 pp. 2024:10 (Springer, GW) <732-278>
ISBN 978-981-9748-79-2 hard ¥31,170.- (税込) EUR 129.99 *

The objective of this book is to analyze and compare the processes of corporate expansion of postwar Japan and Germany. It examines the evolution of distinctive Japanese and German business management styles through the adoption of American management methods, thereby establishing a system of industrial concentration in contrast to the US de-concentration policy. This is the first time that the book draws on a range of topics related to business administration, including the concentration of enterprises, management and production systems, management education, marketing, organizational structure, and corporate governance. The book compares the Japanese and German models. Japanese enterprises developed a management style that was suitable for American and Japanese markets, in part due to the underdeveloped Asian markets. Meanwhile, German enterprises established a management style for European markets. The book considers the specificities of the Japanese management model, predicated on thorough cost reduction and few product defects. In contrast, the German management model placed a premium on differentiation based on product quality and functionality, with a particular focus on core markets and the skills of the workforce. The book posits that corporate expansion was a determining factor in the regionalization of each country. Japan underwent a transformation toward "Asianization," which depended on production and markets in Asia after the 1990s. Germany, on the other hand, consistently pursued "Europeanization" after the war in two complementary ways: (1) a heavy reliance on the European region and (2) the endeavor to advance European integration. Transformations in business management are analyzed using the author's two original frameworks: (1) The term "total system of business management" denotes the fundamental conditional structures that regulate and define the established methods of business management within the confines of capitalism in a specific country. (2) The term "reframing" is used to explain the adaptation, modification, and adjustment of one country's particular management style to another nation. These arguments reframe how we understand the historical processes of corporate expansion and provide milestones for a comparative study of management through common factors and characteristics of management.

平賀緑著　大豆のビジネス・ヒストリー－日本の近代化とグローバルな商品としての大豆の台頭
Hiraga, Midori, A Business History of Soy: Japan's Modernization and the Rise of Soy as a Global Commodity. (Routledge International Studies in Business History) 172 pp. 2024:11 (Routledge, UK) <731-291>
ISBN 978-1-032-67324-0 hard ¥38,610.- (税込) GB￡ 135.00 *

This is a business history of soy that reveals how Japanese imperial and military institutions and financial-mercantile-industrial interests created a role for soy as a versatile raw material and global commodity beginning in the 19th century, even before the Western world recognized this "oilseed." Originating in the rich food cultures of Asia, soy is praised as the "magic bean." About 360 million tons are produced in the world today, and it is traded globally to become food, feed, and fuel. It is the second largest source of vegetable oil in the world, and soy meal is an essential feed without which the modern livestock industries could not exist. Its dominance today is often accounted for in terms of its versatile nature. This book, however, argues that soy was transformed into a versatile industrial raw material and global commodity through the political-economic strategies of state and business actors engaged in the development of the capitalist world-economy. By studying little-known Japanese historical documents and corporate records, and focusing on the less-researched vegetable oil and industrial uses of soy, this book provides a better understanding of how this traditional Asian food was transformed into a global commodity embedded in contradictions. Promoted as a healthy and sustainable food source, soy is also a destructive cash crop whose cultivation and use have played a significant role in the current climate crisis. Based on this case of soy, the book provides a structural understanding of broader food and agriculture systems in the history of capitalism, making it of interest to students at an advanced level, academics, and researchers in the fields of business history, corporate governance, Japanese business, as well as the political economy of food and agriculture.Chapters 2, 3, and the Conclusion of this book are freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF at http://www.taylorfrancis.com under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC BY-NC-ND) 4.0 license.

Kalling, Thomas / Bengtsson, Lars, A Historical Review of Swedish Strategy Research and the Rigor-Relevance Gap. (Elements in Business Strategy) 94 pp. 2024:4 (Cambridge U. Pr., UK) <731-292>
ISBN 978-1-009-46235-8 hard ¥15,730.- (税込) GB￡ 55.00 *
ISBN 978-1-108-46893-0 paper ¥5,148.- (税込) GB￡ 18.00 *

There are many explanations for the so-called rigor-relevance gap in academic research on strategic management. This Element reviews the existing literature on the matter and argues that it must go beyond the typical explanations of knowledge and language differences and look at more fundamental, societal, and cultural explanations. The empirical focus of this Element is the history and possible particularities of strategic management research in Sweden where the authors show how almost 300 years of relevance-centered research have undergone significant changes over the last 30 years, and that the historical development is based very much on societal pressure, academic culture and shifting perspectives on the role of academic research. The authors conclude by offering a couple of examples of how Swedish research, close to its traditional approaches, still can contribute to relevance and thus help balance the rigor-relevance divide.

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Lluch, Andrea / Monsalve Zanatti, Martin et al. (eds.), A Business History of Latin America. (Routledge International Studies in Business History) 326 pp. 2024:11 (Routledge, UK) <731-293>
ISBN 978-1-032-52280-7 hard ¥38,610.- (税込) GB￡ 135.00 *

This edited volume constitutes the first available comprehensive business history of Latin America available in English. It offers a unique synthesis of the development of capitalism in Latin America that takes into consideration the complexities of each country, while simultaneously understanding broader commonalities. With chapters written by a group of internationally renowned senior scholars with a long trajectory in business historical research, the volume is divided into two major areas. First, the development of capitalism in some of the major economies of the region (Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Mexico, and Peru) through the lens of management strategic decisions and entrepreneurial activity. And second, the long-term evolution of factors affecting the region's particular evolution of capitalism and business systems. They include the rise of environmentally sustainable businesses; the impact of crime on entrepreneurial activity; the evolution of family firms, the changing strategies of multinational corporations in the region; the evolution of business groups; the role of female entrepreneurs; and the challenges for conducting business in a region with poor infrastructure. This insightful collection serves both as a straightforward introduction for those looking for a broad understanding of the region and for those interested in conducting comparative studies between Latin America and other areas of the world. It will be of direct appeal to researchers and advanced students of business and economic history and international business in particular.

Berghoff, Hartmut / Grieger, Manfred, Die Geschichte des Hauses Bahlsen: Keks - Krieg - Konsum 1911-1974. 648 S. 2024:8 (Wallstein Vlg., GW) <730-321>
ISBN 978-3-8353-5773-0 hard ¥6,954.- (税込) EUR 29.00

Die Geschichte des Traditionsunternehmens Bahlsen bietet einen seltenen Einblick in die ansonsten verborgene Welt des deutschen Mittelstandes. Bahlsen, das steht nicht nur fast synonym fuer das Genussmittel Keks, sondern ist tatsaechlich auch dessen ≫Erfinder≪ in Deutschland. Es war der Firmengruender Hermann Bahlsen, dessen Wortschoepfung ≫Keks≪ (vom englischen ≫Cakes≪) es 1911 in den Duden schaffte. Bis heute verfuegt das in Hannover ansaessige Traditionsunternehmen ueber einige der bekanntesten Marken fuer Nahrungsmittel in Deutschland. Dabei steht es aber auch fuer einen Unternehmenstyp, der zwar zentral fuer die deutsche Wirtschaft ist, ueber dessen Geschichte wir jedoch wenig wissen: Den Mittelstand. Wie hat er sich zum Nationalsozialismus gestellt? Wie denken und handeln Familienunternehmer angesichts der politischen und oekonomischen Erschuetterungen des?20.?Jahrhunderts? Wie gestalteten sie das Verhaeltnis zu ihren Mitarbeitern? Unter welchen Bedingungen wurden insbesondere die auslaendischen Zwangsarbeiterinnen im ≫Dritten Reich≪ behandelt? Hartmut Berghoff und Manfred Grieger gehen diesen Fragen auf Grundlage bislang nicht ausgewerteter Quellen nach. Die Autoren behandeln die Geschichte des Hauses Bahlsen vom spaeten Kaiserreich bis zur Bundesrepublik und bieten damit detaillierte Einblicke in die Wirtschafts- und Politikgeschichte sowie die Sozial- und Konsumgeschichte einer Zeit voller herausfordernder Umbrueche.

Dodek, Adam, Heenan Blaikie: The Making and Unmaking of a Great Canadian Law Firm. (Law and Society) 320 pp. 2024:10 (U. British Columbia Pr., CN) <729-403>
ISBN 978-0-7748-7073-3 hard ¥9,136.- (税込) US$ 43.95 *

In 1973, three young lawyers established Heenan Blaikie. It would become one of Canada's highest-profile law firms, counting former prime ministers, premiers, and Supreme Court justices in its ranks. It was like a family, according to many who worked there. But it was a dysfunctional family. In 2014, the firm's dramatic collapse became front-page news.Based on extensive interviews with firm lawyers and legal industry insiders, Heenan Blaikie is the story of a respected law firm that ultimately buckled under weak governance and management. Heenan Blaikie seemed to punch above its weight: bilingual, humane, national with international aspirations. But beneath its unique culture as a kinder, gentler law firm lay workplace bullying, challenges for women and visible minority lawyers, and sexual harassment.Adam Dodek, an unbiased outsider, situates the firm's evolution within the context of a changing legal profession and society, producing an account that is gripping from beginning to end.