Trotz einer Vielzahl unterschiedlicher Reorganisationskonzepte haben sich in den letzten Jahren die Geschäftsprozesse als zentraler Betrachtungsgegenstand organisatorischer Umgestaltungen herausgebildet. Während Geschäftsprozesse in der Fertigung seit langem methodisch beherrscht sind,...

The British industrial revolution created an industrial economy. While casual discourse conflates industrialization and economic growth, Britain was remarkable primarily for the pronounced structural change that occurred rather than for rapid economic growth. Uniquely the British labour force...

A significant but uneven spurt of industrialization started in China during the first three decades of the 20th century at a time of political instability and national disintegration. This article argues that economic growth during this period was closely associated with the rise and expansion...

In 1967 Marshal Hodgson (the godfather of global economic history) wrote these percipient words: “Without the cumulative history of the whole Afro-Asian Oikumene of which the Occident had been an integral part, the western transmutation would be almost unthinkable”. Alas, the recommendation...

This paper explores the ways in which global resourceallocation affected the pattern of Japanese (and later East Asia’s)industrialisation, and how it eventually came to underpin the courseof Japanese imperialism and aggression in the 1930s.The Western impact on Asia during the second half of...

In industrializing countries new groups of consumers with remarkable purchasing power are emerging. Representing a “new middle class” they are seen as a carrier and promoter of a so-called “western way of life” beyond the OECD countries. They are presented as having a consumerist...

This paper analyzes an environment where a plotof land is currently under agricultural use under tenancy, andboth the landlord and the tenant can invest to enhance agricultural productivity. There is the possibility of converting theland to non-agricultural use. We analyze the incentives of...

If we are to learn the right lessons from the tragedy ofNandigram, then we must ensure that the government is involvedin the land acquisition process and that we correctly deal withthree sets of issues: the size and form of compensation, theeligibility for compensation and the credibility of the...