The European Enterprise : Historical Investigation into a Future Species

This book offers a broad overview of the topic of the European enterprise: It ex- ines what the Europeanenterpriseis or might be, whetheror not it exists, and,if not, if tendencies towards its emergence can be discerned or not.

General.- The European Enterprise. Its Relevance and Problems.- European Corporations: Ownership, Governance, Strategies and Structures. A Review of Five Countries: United Kingdom, Germany, France, Italy and Spain.- Europe as Home and Host to Multinational Enterprise.- Common European Assets: A Japanese View on the ''European Enterprise''.- Impact of Brussels.- Defining a European Vehicle: Community Standards as Integration Tools or Trade Barriers for European Enterprises?.- Scotch Over Bourbon1: How British Principles of Accounting Became the Norm for Financial Reporting in Europe.- The Impact of European Integration on Institutional Change in Switzerland.- European Institutions and Enterprises in Sweden.- Facilitating Technology Services: National and European Standards and the Shaping of FORCE Technology, 1940-2005.- Europe as an Aim and as a Tool.- The European Enterprise as a "Fortress" - The Rise and Fall of Unidata Between Common European Market and International Competition in the Early 1970s.- Europeanisation and Americanisation: Converging Backgrounds of German and Dutch Top Managers, 1990-2005.- Suez Towards a European Enterprise (1982-2006)?.- Greek Business in Southeast Europe: National, Regional, or European?.- Did the Progressive Absorption of the French Paper Industry Create European Firms?.- European Business or Business in Europe?.- The Rise of the New Public Service Transnationals: European or Global Phenomenon?.- Corporate Responses to Institutional Changes - the Effects of Europeanisation in the Case of Denmark, 1973-2003.- European, Global or Norwegian? The Norwegian Aluminium Companies, 1946-2005.- Changing Transnational Affections. Orkla, Elkem and Norwegian Big Business, 1960-2004.- European Challenges and Opportunities: The Role of Europe in the Internationalisation of Spanish Firms.- Conclusion.- The Development Toward a European Enterprise: Results and Conclusions.