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Mark Fruin (1980) The Family as a Firm and the Firm as a Family in Japan: The Case of Kikkoman Sho ̄yu Company Limited Journal of Family History 5 Winter 432 49 Albert Carreras and Xavier Tafunell (1997) Spain: Big Manufacturing Firms between State and Market 1917 1990 in Alfred D. Chandler Franco Amatori and Takashi Hikino (eds) Big Business and the Wealth of Nations Chapter 9 Cambridge UK: Cambridge University Press 277 304 Hartmut Berghoff (2006) The End of Family Business The Mittelstand and German Capitalism in Transition 1949 2000 Business History Review 80 (2) Summer 263 95 Peter L. Payne (1980) Fields of Enterprise in The Early Scottish Limited Companies 1856 1895: An Historical and Analytical Survey Edinburgh: UK: Scottish Academic Press 53 74 Naomi R. Lamoreaux (1998) Partnerships Corporations and the Theory of the Firm American Economic Review 88 (2) May 66 71 William C. Kirby (1995) China Unincorporated: Company Law and Business Enterprise in Twentieth Century China Journal of Asian Studies 54 (1) February 43 63 Aldo Musacchio (2008) Can Civil Law Countries Get Good Institutions Lessons from the History of Creditor Rights and Bond Markets in Brazil Journal of Economic History 68 (1) March 80 108 Mira Wilkins (1974) International Business in Perspective in The Maturing of Multinational Enterprise: American Business Abroad from 1914 to 1970 Chapter XV Cambridge MA: Harvard University Press 411 39 564 6 Geoffrey Jones and Judith Wale (1998) Merchants as Business Groups: British Trading Companies in Asia before 1945 Business History Review 72 (3) Autumn 367 408 Chiara Betta (2005) The Trade Diaspora of Baghdadi Jews: From India to Chinas Treaty Ports 1842 1937 in Ina Baghdiantz McCabe Gelina Harlaftis and Ioanna Pepelasis Minoglou (eds) Diaspora Entrepreneurial Networks: Four Centuries of History Chapter 12 New York NY Berg Publishers 269 85 This authoritative volume focuses on the rise of modern firms from their early history to the present day. It considers the role of laws and contracts in shaping the growth and influence of business enterprises. It presents entrepreneurs executives and the firms they controlled as driving actors in national economies and international growth. Alongside an original introduction the editors have selected work by scholars who have used corporate archives to explore the fine details of how firms actually operated. It also includes work by those who have been influenced by evolutionary transaction cost and resource based theories of the firm. The book will be an essential source of reference for economic historians as well as industrial economists