Business : Corporate & Business History

Every era has its merger; every era has its story. For the New Media age it was an even bigger disaster: the AOL–Time Warner deal. At the time AOL and Time Warner were considered a matchless combination of old media content and new media distribution. But very soon after the deal was announced things started to go bad – and then from bad to worse. Less than four years after the deal was announced, every significant figure in the deal –save the politically astute Richard Parsons – has left the company, along with scores of others. Nearly a $100 billion was written off and a stock that once traded at $100 now trades near $10. What happened? Where did it all go wrong? In this deeply sourced and deftly written book, Nina Munk gives us a window into the minds of two of the oddest men to ever run billion–dollar empires. Steve Case, the boy wonder who built AOL one free floppy disk at a time, was searching for a way out of the New Economy. Meanwhile Jerry Levin, who'd made his reputation as a visionary when he put HBO on satellite distribution, was searching for a monumental deal. These two men, more interested in their place in history than their personal fortunes, each thought they were out–smarting the other. more...

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The principles and practices of corporate social responsibility date back more than a century , but the current wave of global interest is unprecedented. With The Market for Virtue, David Vogel has provided the most comprehensive analysis to date of the contemporary CSR movement in both the United States and Europe. Growing awareness of CSR is evident in the growth of social and ethical investment funds, voluntary codes of corporate conduct, and companies' self-reporting on social and environmental practices. more...

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When analyzing 7-Eleven Japan’s advanced and innovative management style, the authors of this book highlight the existence of the “integrated information system”. This is because of the key role it plays not only in forming this firm’s corporate strategy but also in developing its functional strategies for logistic support, merchandising and store operations. The authors explore the integrated information system, a symbol of the competitiveness of 7-Eleven Japan. more...

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The fascinating story of a company that has been at the forefront of American business for over one hundred years. The story of Walgreens spans over a century of U.S. history. It’s the story of the most successful drugstore chain in the nation, an industry leader from the 1920s right up to the present. Today, the company still surpasses its competition in both size and profitability. more...

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Traditionally, researchers have defined entrepreneurship in terms of the entrepreneur - the individual who exploits a previously unnoticed opportunity. Entrepreneurship research thus focused on the attributes of the person and how these might be related to exploiting opportunities which others either didn't see or chose not to pursue. In this way, classic entrepreneurship research explored individual characteristics such as willingness to bear uncertainty (Khilstrom & Laffont, 1979), tolerance for ambiguity (Schere, 1982), or need for achievement (McClelland, 1961). Unfortunately, focus on the individual entrepreneur has proved unsatisfactory because it cannot explain the fact that entrepreneurial behaviour is episodic and clustered at particular points in time. It also does not explain how entrepreneurship is often a response to specific situations (Gartner, 1985). Stated differently, this individual entrepreneur view of the field does not acknowledge the context within which entrepreneurship takes place (Shane, 2003; Shane & Venkataraman, 2000). Shane and his colleagues encourage researchers to view entrepreneurship as the nexus of entrepreneur and context. more...

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