"Consumer co-operatives provide a different approach to organizing business through their ideals of member ownership and democratic practice. Every co-operative member has an equal vote regardless of his or her own personal capital investment. The co-operative movement can also be an important...

Introduction -- Founding a company and formulating a basic narrative -- The prior experience of Henrik Thorning and the context of the start-up -- Putting resources to service and strengthening the basic narrative in the start-up process -- How should the profiles of fiberline be sold? -- The...

Regional transformation : energy transition in the Rhine Region -- The post-war reconstruction and the rise of oil, 1945-1951 -- Oil unbounded: the coal crisis of 1957-8 -- The growth of chemical clusters in the Rhine Region, 1960-73 -- Regional connections : from Rhine to pipeline -- Pipelines:...

"Corporate networks, the links between companies and their leaders, reflect a country's economic organization and its corporate governance system. Most research on corporate networks focuses on individual countries or particular time periods, however, making fruitful comparisons over longer...

Acknowledgments -- Introduction : varieties of capitalism and business history : the Dutch case / Keetie Sluyterman -- Variations of coordination : labour relations in the Netherlands / Erik Nijhof and Annette van den Berg -- The evolving role of shareholders in Dutch corporate governance,...