Nobility and Business in History Investments, Innovation, Management and Networks

This book reconsiders the role of nobility as influential economic players and provides new insights into the business activities of noblemen in Europe and Asia during the nineteenth century thus offering up opportunities for comparison in an age of economic expansion and globalisation.

About the author

Silvia A. Conca Messina is Associate Professor of Economic History in the Department of Historical Studies at the University of Milan, Italy. She recently edited Leading the Economic Risorgimento. Lombardy in the 19th Century, Routledge, 2022.
Takeshi Abe is Professor Emeritus of Osaka University, Japan, and is former President of the Business History Society of Japan (BHSJ). He is one of the editors of Region and Strategy in Britain and Japan: Business in Lancashire and Kansai 1890-1990, Routledge, 2000.

Summary

This book reconsiders the role of nobility as influential economic players and provides new insights into the business activities of noblemen in Europe and Asia during the nineteenth century thus offering up opportunities for comparison in an age of economic expansion and globalisation.

Product details

• Assisted by: Abe Takeshi (Editor), Silvia A. Conca Messina (Editor), Takeshi Abe (Editor)
• Authors: Silvia A. Conca (University of Milan Messina
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Content: Book
• Product form: Paperback / Softback
• Publication date: 09.10.2024
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Business > General, dictionaries
• EAN: 9781032449579
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3244957-9
• Pages: 258
• Subjects: Business & Economics / General, Economics, Management & management techniques, Business mathematics & systems, Operational research, Investment & securities, Investment and securities, Management and management techniques, Business mathematics and systems, nineteenth-century Europe, noble class economic influence analysis, family business longevity, elite economic networks, cross-border enterprise history, Meiji Restoration economy, aristocratic entrepreneurship