Family Capitalism : Wendels, Haniels, Falcks, and the Continental European Model / Harold James.
James, Harold, author.
2022
HD62.25 ǂb J355 2006eb
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Title Family Capitalism : Wendels, Haniels, Falcks, and the Continental European Model / Harold James.
Author James, Harold, author.
ISBN 9780674039094
DOI https://doi.org/10.4159/9780674039094
Published Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2022]
Copyright ©2006
Language English
Language Note In English.
Description 1 online resource (448 p.)
Other Standard Identifiers 10.4159/9780674039094 doi
Call Number HD62.25 ǂb J355 2006eb
Dewey Decimal Classification 338.7
Summary This history of three powerful family firms located in different European countries takes place over a period of more than two hundred years. The interplay and the changing social and legal arrangements of the families shaped the development of a European capitalism quite different from the Anglo-American variety. Qualifying claims by Alfred Chandler and David Landes that family firms tend to be dysfunctional, Harold James shows how and why these steel and engineering firms were successful over long periods of time. Indeed, he sees the family enterprise as particularly conducive to managing risk during periods of upheaval and uncertainty when both states and markets are disturbed. He also identifies the key roles played by women executives during such times. In Family Capitalism, James tells how "iron masters" of a classical industrial cast were succeeded by new generations who wanted to shift to information-age systems technologies, and how families and firms wrestled with social and economic changes that occasionally tore them apart. Finally, the author shows how the trajectories of the firms were influenced by political, military, economic, and social events and how these firms illuminate a European model of "relationship capitalism."
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Frontmatter
Contents
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Introduction: The Familiarity of Capitalism
Part I. The Age of the Individual
Chapter 1 The Wendels and the French State
Chapter 2 The Pioneer in German History
Chapter 3 The Industrial Origins of the Falcks
Part II. The Age of the Corporation
Introduction
Chapter 4 The Gutehoffnungshütte as a Joint-Stock Company
Chapter 5 French Companies in Two Countries
Chapter 6 An Italian Joint-Stock Company
Part III. The Age of Organizationalism
Chapter 7 The Politician as Businessman
Chapter 8 A Family Concern
Chapter 9 Models of Italian Industrial Development
Part IV. The Age of the Postwar Miracle
Chapter 10 A Costly Miracle in Italy
Chapter 11 A New Kind of Family Togetherness
Chapter 12 Postwar Reconstruction in France
Part V. The Age of Globalization
Chapter 13 Wendel Becomes a Conglomerate, French Style
Chapter 14 The Crisis of Italian Steel
Chapter 15 German Diversification and Internationalization
Chapter 16 Family Capitalism and the Exit from Steel
Conclusion Family Entrepreneurship
Appendix: Family Trees
Notes
Acknowledgments
Index

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