Dynasties: fortunes and misfortunes of the world's great family businesses

By:

Landes, David S

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: New York Viking/Penguin Books 2007Description: xx, 380 pISBN:

9780670885312

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

338.7 LAN

Summary: 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. (https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/25094/dynasties-by-landes-david/9780141930718)

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Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	Copy number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Book	Indian Institute of Management LRC General Stacks	Public Policy & General Management	338.7 LAN (Browse shelf(Opens below))	1	Available		G00394

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.

(https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/25094/dynasties-by-landes-david/9780141930718)

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