Rothschilds Morgans Fords Toyoda Agnellis Rockefellers GuggenheimsDynastic family businesses have everything: extraordinary success, bizarre eccentricity, bitter rivalry as well as pots of money and power. Yet almost no one has looked closely enough to see what it is that really makes them tick. In Dynasties, award-winning author David Landes casts his eye over some of the most powerful family businesses in Europe, Japan and America. On the way, he provides thrilling histories of the characters who have made their mark on the world and passed on a legacy sometimes benign and sometimes not to their descendants.

Rothschilds . Morgans . Fords . Toyoda . Agnellis . Rockefellers . Guggenheims

Dynastic family businesses have everything: extraordinary success, bizarre eccentricity, bitter rivalry - as well as pots of money and power. Yet almost no one has looked closely enough to see what it is that really makes them tick.

In Dynasties, award-winning author David Landes casts his eye over some of the most powerful family businesses in Europe, Japan and America. On the way, he provides thrilling histories of the characters who have made their mark on the world and passed on a legacy - sometimes benign and sometimes not - to their descendants.



Autorentext

David Landes



Zusammenfassung

Rothschilds " Morgans " Fords " Toyoda " Agnellis " Rockefellers " Guggenheims

Dynastic family businesses have everything: extraordinary success, bizarre eccentricity, bitter rivalry " as well as pots of money and power. Yet almost no one has looked closely enough to see what it is that really makes them tick.

In Dynasties, award-winning author David Landes casts his eye over some of the most powerful family businesses in Europe, Japan and America. On the way, he provides thrilling histories of the characters who have made their mark on the world and passed on a legacy " sometimes benign and sometimes not " to their descendants.

Titel
Dynasties
Untertitel
Fortune and Misfortune in the World's Great Family Businesses
EAN
9780141930718
ISBN
978-0-14-193071-8
Format
E-Book (epub)
Hersteller
Herausgeber
Veröffentlichung
31.01.2008
Digitaler Kopierschutz
Adobe-DRM
Dateigrösse
2.43 MB
Anzahl Seiten
400
Jahr
2008
Untertitel
Englisch
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