The European Enterprise Historical Investigation into a Future Species

What is Europe's impact on enterprises? 150 years ago, the emergence of nation-states created the national enterprise. After 50 years of European integration - is there a European firm distinct from the national firm? The book provides an assessment of the barriers to and prospects for this eme...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Schroeter, Harm Gustav (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Berlin, Heidelberg Springer Berlin Heidelberg 2008, 2008
Edition:1st ed. 2008
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Collection: Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • General
  • The European Enterprise. Its Relevance and Problems
  • European Corporations: Ownership, Governance, Strategies and Structures. A Review of Five Countries: United Kingdom, Germany, France, Italy and Spain
  • Europe as Home and Host to Multinational Enterprise
  • Common European Assets: A Japanese View on the ‘European Enterprise’
  • Impact of Brussels
  • Defining a European Vehicle: Community Standards as Integration Tools or Trade Barriers for European Enterprises?
  • Scotch Over Bourbon1: How British Principles of Accounting Became the Norm for Financial Reporting in Europe
  • The Impact of European Integration on Institutional Change in Switzerland
  • European Institutions and Enterprises in Sweden
  • Facilitating Technology Services: National and European Standards and the Shaping of FORCE Technology, 1940–2005
  • Europe as an Aim and as a Tool
  • The European Enterprise as a “Fortress” — The Rise and Fall of Unidata Between Common European Market and International Competition in the Early 1970s
  • Europeanisation and Americanisation: Converging Backgrounds of German and Dutch Top Managers, 1990–2005
  • Suez Towards a European Enterprise (1982–2006)?
  • Greek Business in Southeast Europe: National, Regional, or European?
  • Did the Progressive Absorption of the French Paper Industry Create European Firms?
  • European Business or Business in Europe?
  • The Rise of the New Public Service Transnationals: European or Global Phenomenon?
  • Corporate Responses to Institutional Changes — the Effects of Europeanisation in the Case of Denmark, 1973–2003
  • European, Global or Norwegian? The Norwegian Aluminium Companies, 1946–2005
  • Changing Transnational Affections. Orkla, Elkem and Norwegian Big Business, 1960–2004
  • European Challenges and Opportunities:The Role of Europe in the Internationalisation of Spanish Firms
  • Conclusion
  • The Development Toward a European Enterprise: Results and Conclusions