The European Enterprise: Historical Investigation into a Future Species

Front Matter....Pages i-xiv
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
The European Enterprise. Its Relevance and Problems....Pages 3-22
European Corporations: Ownership, Governance, Strategies and Structures. A Review of Five Countries: United Kingdom, Germany, France, Italy and Spain....Pages 23-36
Europe as Home and Host to Multinational Enterprise....Pages 37-50
Common European Assets: A Japanese View on the ‘European Enterprise’....Pages 51-63
Front Matter....Pages 65-65
Defining a European Vehicle: Community Standards as Integration Tools or Trade Barriers for European Enterprises?....Pages 67-80
Scotch Over Bourbon 1 : How British Principles of Accounting Became the Norm for Financial Reporting in Europe....Pages 81-95
The Impact of European Integration on Institutional Change in Switzerland....Pages 97-110
European Institutions and Enterprises in Sweden....Pages 111-125
Facilitating Technology Services: National and European Standards and the Shaping of FORCE Technology, 1940–2005....Pages 127-137
Front Matter....Pages 139-139
The European Enterprise as a “Fortress” — The Rise and Fall of Unidata Between Common European Market and International Competition in the Early 1970s....Pages 141-154
Europeanisation and Americanisation: Converging Backgrounds of German and Dutch Top Managers, 1990–2005....Pages 155-167
Suez Towards a European Enterprise (1982–2006)?....Pages 169-182
Greek Business in Southeast Europe: National, Regional, or European?....Pages 183-194
Did the Progressive Absorption of the French Paper Industry Create European Firms?....Pages 195-205
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The Rise of the New Public Service Transnationals: European or Global Phenomenon?....Pages 209-222
Corporate Responses to Institutional Changes — the Effects of Europeanisation in the Case of Denmark, 1973–2003....Pages 223-239
European, Global or Norwegian? The Norwegian Aluminium Companies, 1946–2005....Pages 241-252
Changing Transnational Affections. Orkla, Elkem and Norwegian Big Business, 1960–2004....Pages 253-267
European Challenges and Opportunities: The Role of Europe in the Internationalisation of Spanish Firms....Pages 269-279
Front Matter....Pages 281-281
The Development Toward a European Enterprise: Results and Conclusions....Pages 283-297