LEADER 04384nam 22005894a 450 001 9910455102303321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a0-674-03909-2 024 7 $a10.4159/9780674039094 035 $a(CKB)1000000000786985 035 $a(OCoLC)654743585 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10312784 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000153275 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11160859 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000153275 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10392541 035 $a(PQKB)10900261 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3300079 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3300079 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10312784 035 $a(OCoLC)923109010 035 $a(DE-B1597)574625 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780674039094 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000786985 100 $a20050927d2006 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aFamily capitalism$b[electronic resource] $eWendels, Haniels, Falcks, and the continental European model /$fHarold James 210 $aCambridge, Mass. $cBelknap Press of Harvard University Press$d2006 215 $a1 online resource (447 p.) 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 $a0-674-02181-9 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 393-421) and index. 327 $tFrontmatter -- $tContents -- $tFigures -- $tMaps -- $tAbbreviations -- $tIntroduction: The Familiarity of Capitalism -- $tPart I. The Age of the Individual -- $tChapter 1 The Wendels and the French State -- $tChapter 2 The Pioneer in German History -- $tChapter 3 The Industrial Origins of the Falcks -- $tPart II. The Age of the Corporation -- $tIntroduction -- $tChapter 4 The Gutehoffnungshütte as a Joint-Stock Company -- $tChapter 5 French Companies in Two Countries -- $tChapter 6 An Italian Joint-Stock Company -- $tPart III. The Age of Organizationalism -- $tChapter 7 The Politician as Businessman -- $tChapter 8 A Family Concern -- $tChapter 9 Models of Italian Industrial Development -- $tPart IV. The Age of the Postwar Miracle -- $tChapter 10 A Costly Miracle in Italy -- $tChapter 11 A New Kind of Family Togetherness -- $tChapter 12 Postwar Reconstruction in France -- $tPart V. The Age of Globalization -- $tChapter 13 Wendel Becomes a Conglomerate, French Style -- $tChapter 14 The Crisis of Italian Steel -- $tChapter 15 German Diversification and Internationalization -- $tChapter 16 Family Capitalism and the Exit from Steel -- $tConclusion Family Entrepreneurship -- $tAppendix: Family Trees -- $tNotes -- $tAcknowledgments -- $tIndex 330 $aThis 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." 606 $aFamily-owned business enterprises$zEurope$xHistory 606 $aFamily-owned business enterprises$vCase studies 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aFamily-owned business enterprises$xHistory. 615 0$aFamily-owned business enterprises 676 $a338.7 700 $aJames$b Harold$f1956-$0850533 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910455102303321 996 $aFamily capitalism$92000296 997 $aUNINA