The Performance of European Business in the Twentieth Century

Youssef Cassis, Professor of Economic History, European University Institute,Andrea Colli, Professor of Economic History, Bocconi University,Harm Schroter, Professor of Economic History, Institute of AHKR, University of Bergen

Youssef Cassis is Professor of Economic History at the European University Institute, Florence. He was previously Professor of Economic History at the University of Geneva (2004-2010) and at the University Pierre Mendes France, Grenoble (1997-04).He has held visiting professorships at the Cass Business School, the Graduate Institute in Geneva and the University of St Gallen. His work mainly focuses on banking and financial history, as well as business history more generally. His numerous publications on the subject include, A History of International Financial Centres, 1780-2005, (Cambridge University Press, 2006), and Crises and Opportunities, The Shaping of Modern Finance (Oxford University Press, 2011) among many others. He was the cofounder, in 1994, of Financial History Review (Cambridge University Press) and a member of the Academic Advisory Council of the European Association for Banking and Financial History and past President (2005-07) of the European Business History Association

Andrea Colli is Professor of Economic History at Bocconi University, in the Department of Institutional Analysis and Public Management. His research interests include family capitalism, the international business, and corporate governance from a historical perspective. He has been a member of the Governing Council of the European Business History Association since 2002.

Harm G. Schroter received his PhD in 1981. He worked at ten different universities, since 1998 at the University of Bergen, Norway. His main interest is on European economic and business history. Books: Americanization of the European Economy. A compact survey of American economic influence in Europe since the 1880s (2005), The European Enterprise, Historical investigation into a future species (ed. 2008); with Battilani: The cooperative business movement, 1950 to the present (eds. 2012). He served as President of European Business History Association, acts as referee for many international journals and publishing houses. He is a member of the editorial board of several journals.

Foreword Franco Amatori
Part I: Overview and methodology
1. The Performance of European Business in the 20th Century: General Overview, Youssef Cassis, Andrea Colli and Harm G. Schroter
2. Methodology and Traps, Michele D'Alessandro
3. Ownership and Performance in European Big Business: The Longitudinal Perspective, Andrea Colli
Part II: Countries' Performance
4. The Performance of Belgian Enterprises in the 20th century, Frans Buelens, Ludo Cuyvers, Marc Deloof, and Helma De Smedt
5. The Performance of British Business in the 20th Century, Youssef Cassis and Terry Gourvish
6. The Performance of French Business in the 20th Century, Youssef Cassis, Anne Dalmasso, and Pierre Vernus
7. The Performance of German Big Business in the 20th Century, Diane Dammers and Hendrik Fischer
8. Big Business Performance in the 20th Century: Italy, Carlo Brambilla and Andrea Colli
9. Spanish Business Performance in the 20th century, Veronica Binda, Albert Carreras, and Xavier Tafunell
10. Growth and Profits in Swedish and Finnish Big Business in the Twentieth Century, Riitta Hjerppe and Mats Larsson
Part III: Industries' Performance
11. Old Industries in Europe, 1911-2000, Toni Pierenkemper, Helma De Smedt, Frans Buelens Ludo Cuyvers, and Marc Deloof
12. The Performance of 'Chandlerian enterprises', Harm G. Schroter
13. The Performance of European Transport and Utilities in the Twentieth Century, Anna-Maria Aubanell and Terry Gourvish
14. Commercial and Financial Services, Mats Larsson, Edoardo Altamura, and Youssef Cassis