Write a 6 page essay on Modern Business.Download file to see previous pages... 'Chandler, A D', International Encyclopedia of Business and Management, 1996, pp.612-7C.J.Schmitz, The Growth of Big Busi

Write a 6 page essay on Modern Business.

'Chandler, A D', International Encyclopedia of Business and Management, 1996, pp.612-7

C.J.Schmitz, The Growth of Big Business in the United States and Western Europe, 1850-1939 (London: Macmillan, 1993)

M E Porter, 'The Competitive Advantage of Nations', Harvard Business Review, March-April 1990, pp.73-93

f. You should note that the following are classics on the course's topic matter and know of their existence, but it is not so essential to read them directly:

A.Gershenkron, Economic Backwardness in Historical Perspective (Harvard University Press, 1962)

S.Kuznets, Modern Economic Growth: Rate, Structure, and Spread (Yale University Press, 1966)

D.C.North, Institutions, Institutional Change and Economic Performance (Cambridge University Press, 1990) M.Weber, Economy and Society (1917)

g. Useful sources of on-line information, statistics, and national surveys will, however, be particularly useful:

United Nations - Statistics Division: www.unstats.un.org/unsd/snaama/Introduction

United Nations Conference on Trade and Development: www.unctad.org/Templates/StartPage

United Nations Centre on Transnational Corporations: www.unctc.unctad.org/aspx.index.aspx

World Bank: www.worldbank.org

International Monetary Fund: www.imf.org

Organization of Economic Cooperation and Development: www.oecd.statsportal

Central Intelligence Agency: www.odci.gov/cia/publications/factbook

Institute of Management Development: www.imd.ch/wccc

World Economic Forum: www.weforum.org

Research and development: http://www.finfacts.com/irelandbusinessnews/publish/article_10003718.shtml

All of these organisations also provide statistics and publications in hard copy. The World Economic Forum publishes...

Baumol etal., Convergence of Productivity: Cross-national Studies and Historical Evidence (1994)

B Dornseifer and J Kocka, 'The Impact of the Preindustrial Heritage: Reconsiderations on the German Pattern of Corporate Development in the Late 19th and Early 20th Centuries, Industrial and Corporate Change, vol 2 (1993)

P.Krugman, 'Competitiveness: A Dangerous Obsession', Foreign Affairs, March-April 1994, pp.28-44, and 'Proving My Point', Foreign Affairs, July-August 1994, pp.198-203. Reprinted in P.Krugman, Pop Internationalism (MIT Press, 1996), pp.3-33. [382 KRU]

A.L.Kallenberg, The Comparative Study of Business Organizations and their Employees', in C.Calhoun (ed.), Comparative Social Research vol. 12 (1990) [SL offprint. NB. This is shelved under Kallenberg not Calhoun.]

R.Fitzgerald and C.Rowley, 'From Hands To Resources: Explanation, Perspective And History', in Human Resources and the Firm in International Perspective, Vol.