The Oxford Handbook of Business History
Edited by Geoffrey Jones and Jonathan Zeitlin
Author Information
Geoffrey Jones is Isidor Straus Professor of Business History, Harvard Business School. He previously taught at the universities of Cambridge and Reading, and at the London School of Economics and Political Science, in Great Britain. He is the author and editor of many books and articles on the history of international business, including British Multinational Banking 1830-1990 (OUP, 1993), Merchants to Multinationals (OUP, 2000), Multinationals and Global Capitalism (OUP, 2005) and Renewing Unilever (OUP, 2005). He is a former President of both the European Business History Association and the Business History Conference of the Untied States, is co-editor of the journal Business History Review.
Jonathan Zeitlin is Professor of Sociology, Public Affairs, Political Science, and History at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in the United States where he is also Director of the Center for World Affairs and the Global Economy (WAGE) and the European Union Center of Excellence. He was previously Lecturer in Social and Economic History at Birkbeck College, London, and Research Fellow at King's College, Cambridge, in Great Britain. He is the author and editor of numerous books and articles on the comparative and historical analysis of business organization, employment relations, and socio-economic governance, most recently Local Players in Global Games: The Strategic Constitution of a Multinational Corporation (OUP, 2005). He is co-editor of the journal Socio-Economic Review, a member of the editorial board of Enterprise & Society, and a former Trustee of the Business History Conference.
Contributors:
Rolv Petter Amdam, Professor of Business History, BI Norwegian School of Management,
Trevor Boyns, Professor of Accounting and Business History, Cardiff Business School at Cardiff, United Kingdom,
Youssef Cassis, Professor of Economic and Social History, University of Geneva, Switzerland,
Andrea Colli, Associate Professor in Economic History, Bocconi University, Italy,
Jeffrey Fear, Associate Professor, University of Redlands in California, United States,
Robert Fitzgerald, Reader in Business History and International Management, Royal Holloway, University of London, United Kingdom,
Patrick Fridenson, Professor of International Business History, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris,
W. Mark Fruin, Professor of Corporate and Global Strategy, College of Business at San Jose State University, United States,
Howard Gospel, Professor of Management, King's College, University of London, United Kingdom,
Margaret B.W. Graham, Associate Professor of Strategy and Organization, Desautels Faculty of Management, McGill University, Canada,
Gary Herrigel, Associate Professor of Political Science, University of Chicago, United States,
Geoffrey Jones, Isidor Straus Professor of Business History, Harvard Business School, United States,
Matthias Kipping, Professor of Strategic Management and Chair in Business History, Schulich School of Business, York University, Toronto, Canada,
Wolfgang König, Professor of the History of Technology, Technical University of Berlin, Germany,
Naomi R. Lamoreaux, Professor of Economics and History, University of California, Los Angeles, United States,
Luca Lanzalaco, lecturer in Political Science and Public Policy, University of Macerata, Italy,
William Lazonick, University Professor, University of Massachusetts Lowell, United States,
Michel Lescure, Professor of Economic and Social History, University of Paris X-Nanterre, France,
Kenneth J. Lipartito, Professor of History, Florida International University, United States,
Robert Millward, Professor of Economic History, University of Manchester, United Kingdom,
Daniel Raff, Associate Professor of Management, Wharton School, and Associate Professor of History, School of Arts and Sciences, University of Pennsylvania, United States,
Mary Rose, Professor of Entrepreneurship, Institute of Entrepreneurship and Enterprise Development, Management School, Lancaster University, United Kingdom,
Peter Temin, Elisha Gray II Professor of Economics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), United States,
Kathleen Thelen,
Behlül Üsdiken, Professor of Management and Organization, Sabanci University, Istanbul, Turkey,
R. Daniel Wadhwani, Assistant Professor of Management and Fletcher Jones Professor of Entrepreneurship, University of the Pacific, California, United States,
Jonathan Zeitlin, Professor of Sociology, Public Affairs, Political Science, and History, University of Wisconsin-Madison, United States.
