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Relevant issues -- Introduction -- Business history and theories of the firm -- Entrepreneurship -- The company between the preindustrial era and the First Industrial Revolution -- Preindustrial revolution -- Enterprises and entrepreneurs of the First Industrial Revolution -- Technology, society, and the factory system -- The birth and consolidation of big business -- Infrastructures -- Technology and organization -- National patterns -- State and market in the period between the two world wars -- The multidivisional corporation and managerial capitalism -- Europe between the two wars : convergence and divergence with the United States -- At the origins of the Japanese miracle : entrepreneurship, the State, and business groups -- From the postwar years to the fall of the wall : age of shrinking space -- From World War II to the Third Industrial Revolution -- American hegemony and its aftermath -- The Soviet Union : the antagonist -- Japan : the challenger -- Hybrid Europe -- Different strategies for catching up : South Korea and Argentina -- The globalization of today -- Multinational : quid novi? -- New forms of enterprise -- The roaring 1990s : America is back -- Slowing down : Europe and Japan -- New protagonists : China and India -- A last look

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