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This 2003 book offered the first in-depth international survey of contemporary research and debates in business history. The contributors have documented and analyzed the evolution of a wide range of important companies, their patterns of innovation, production, and distribution, their financial affairs, their political activities, and their social impact.

This book examines the twentieth-century rise and fall of state-owned enterprises (SOEs), a chief instrument of state economic intervention. Through studies of such enterprises in Western Europe and the United States, the authors offer historical perspectives on the origins of SOEs, their performance, and the reasons for their precipitate decline.

This 2003 book offered the first in-depth international survey of contemporary research and debates in business history. The contributors have documented and analyzed the evolution of a wide range of important companies, their patterns of innovation, production, and distribution, their financial affairs, their political activities, and their social impact.

An overview of the development of cooperatives over the last fifty years, addressing the major challenges that they face in the future.