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Introductory Note: Franco Amatori and Comparative Business History

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 July 2022

Andrea Colli  and
Andrea Lluch
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Business History Review , Volume 96 , Issue 2: Business History around the World , Summer 2022 , pp. 237 - 244
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2 Chandler, , The Visible Hand: The Managerial Revolution in American Business (Cambridge, MA, 1977)Google Scholar.

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4 Wilkins, Mira, “Chandler and Global Business History,” Business History Review 82, no. 2 (Summer 2008): 251-266CrossRefGoogle Scholar. Wilkins provides an overview of Chandler’s growing interest in comparative global business history.

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12 Amatori, 360.

13 See, for example, Amatori, , “The Fascist Regime and Big Business: The Fiat and Montecatini Cases,” in Enterprise in the Period of Fascism in Europe, ed. James, Harold and Tanner, Jakob (New York, 2002), 62–77Google Scholar; Amatori, , Proprietà e direzione: la Rinascente, 1917–1969 (Milan, 1989)Google Scholar; and Amatori, , Impresa e mercato: Lancia, 1906–1969 (Milan, 1996)Google Scholar.

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18 Here the complete list of the conferences: “The Rise and Fall of State-Owned Enterprise in the Western World” (1996); “Business History around the World at the End of the Twentieth Century” (1998); “The Global Chemical Industry in the Age of the Petrochemical Revolution” (2000); “Entrepreneurs and Managers” (2002); “Business Performance in the Twentieth Century: A Comparative Perspective” (2004); “Has There Been a Third Industrial Revolution in Global Business?” (2006); “Business and the Chinese Miracle” (2008); “A Special Kind of Business: The Cooperative Movement, 1950–2010. . .and Beyond” (2010); “Capitalism and the Corporation: Today and Yesterday” (2014); and “Business History in the Age of Modern Globalization” (2017).

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21 Amatori and Jones, Business History around the World. The book featured sections on general topics, including on the boundaries of business history (Louis Galambos), innovative enterprise (William Lazonick), and flexibility, governance, and strategic choice (Jonathan Zeitlin). It also included sections on “area patterns,” including on the United States (William J. Hausman), Britain and the Netherlands (Geoff Jones and Keetie Sluyterman), Scandinavia (Hakan Lindgren), Germany (Harm Schröter), France (Yousef Cassis), Italy (Granco Amatori and Giorgio Bigatti), Spain (Albert Carreras, Xavier Tafuneli, and Eugenio Torres), Greece (Margarita Dritsas), Japan (Akira Kudo), China (Chi-Kong Lai), and Latin America (Maria Ines Barbero). A third section on comparative business history included articles on family firms (Andrea Colli and Mary B. Rose), multinationals (Geoffrey Jones), and the dynamics of government-based relations (Mathias Kipping).

22 Amatori and Jones, “Introduction,” in Amatori and Jones, Business History around the World, 6.

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