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.
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.
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.
Inhaltsangabe
Preface-Nobeconomy: Nobility and Business in History Introduction-Noblemen in business in the nineteenth century: The survival of an economic elite? 1. Far from the passive property. An entrepreneurial landowner in the nineteenth century Papal State 2. The noble entrepreneurs coming from the bourgeoisie: Counts Bettoni Cazzago during the nineteenth century 3. Agriculture and nobility in Lombardy. Land, management and innovation (1815-1861) 4. Exemplifying aristocratic cross-border entrepreneurship before WWI, from a Portuguese perspective 5. The Genoese nobility: Land, finance and business from restoration to the First World War 6. Family entrepreneurial orientation as a driver of longevity in family firms: A historic analysis of the ennobled Trenor family and Trenor y Cía 7. An aristocratic enterprise: The Ginori porcelain manufactory (1735-1896) 8. Nordic noblemen in business: The Ehrnrooth family and the modernisation of the Finnish economy during the late 19th century 9. Socio-economic activities of former feudal lords in Meiji Japan 10. A gateway to the business world? The analysis of networks in connecting the modern Japanese nobility to the business elite
Preface-Nobeconomy: Nobility and Business in History Introduction-Noblemen in business in the nineteenth century: The survival of an economic elite? 1. Far from the passive property. An entrepreneurial landowner in the nineteenth century Papal State 2. The noble entrepreneurs coming from the bourgeoisie: Counts Bettoni Cazzago during the nineteenth century 3. Agriculture and nobility in Lombardy. Land, management and innovation (1815-1861) 4. Exemplifying aristocratic cross-border entrepreneurship before WWI, from a Portuguese perspective 5. The Genoese nobility: Land, finance and business from restoration to the First World War 6. Family entrepreneurial orientation as a driver of longevity in family firms: A historic analysis of the ennobled Trenor family and Trenor y Cía 7. An aristocratic enterprise: The Ginori porcelain manufactory (1735-1896) 8. Nordic noblemen in business: The Ehrnrooth family and the modernisation of the Finnish economy during the late 19th century 9. Socio-economic activities of former feudal lords in Meiji Japan 10. A gateway to the business world? The analysis of networks in connecting the modern Japanese nobility to the business elite
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