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The Performance of European Business in the Twentieth Century (Hardcover)
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The Performance of European Business in the Twentieth Century (Hardcover)
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This book originated from the idea that performance is what really
matters in business and thus in business history. Yet,
surprisingly, the analysis of performances has been neglected by
economic and business historians. This book is a first attempt to
fill this gap and in doing so provides a totally new approach to
European business history. Rather than bringing together national
studies, it is based on a single database, measuring performance in
eight European countries according to identical criteria. The study
spans the entire twentieth century, with particular attention to
five benchmark moments: the height of the first globalisation on
the eve of the First World War; the late 1920s boom preceding the
Great Depression; the European reconstruction of the mid-1950s; the
end of 'Golden Age' in the early 1970s; and the height of the
second globalisation at the turn of the twenty-first century. The
analysis is based on a sample of 1,225 companies, belonging to the
three major European economies, Britain, France and Germany; two
large south European latecomers, Italy and Spain; two smaller north
western countries, Belgium and Sweden, and one small Nordic
country, Finland. Performance has been measured using two ratios of
profitability: return on equity (ROE) and holding return (HR), thus
providing a complementary measure of profitability, the former as
seen from the firm's perspective, the latter form the investor's
perspective. The book's findings, at times surprising, at once
confirm and infirm widely held assumptions regarding business
performance - regarding strategy and structure, ownership and
control, old and new industries, emerging and advanced economies.
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