The Growth of Big Business in the United States and Western Europe, 1850-1939

• Acknowledgements and Note; Editor's preface; 1. Introduction; 2. The nature and origins of big business; 3. Variations in the rise and spread of big business; 4. Institutional and technological factors; 5. Markets, hierarchies and the managerial revolution; 6. The impact of big business; 7. Conclusions: history and theory; Notes and references; Select bibliography; Index.

'The author has brilliantly fulfilled his brief of writing a critical but non-partisan survey for students wishing to bring themselves up to date with developments in internationally comparative business history. It will deservedly become the basic introductory reading for any modern business history course.' Leslie Hannah, Business History