Incorporating Women or Realising Strategy in Management

Incorporating Women (Twayne's Evolution of Modern Business Series): A History of Women and Business in the United States

Author: Angel Kwolek Folland

The only book on the market to bring together business and women's history, Incorporating Women: A History of Women and Business in the United States by award-winning author Angel Kwolek-Folland, is an engaging and unique survey of women in business that begins with 17th century Native American fur traders and ends with the producer of the film Top Gun. Along the way, the reader is introduced to some of the women - famous, infamous, and forgotten - who have engaged in business throughout U.S. history. This narrative challenges our expectations about both the history of women and the history of business as it focuses on the changing legal and social climate for women's economic activities and traces the expansion of opportunities as well as the persistent problems that continue to face women in the business world. Kwolek-Folland has chosen two organizational themes: women's business experiences in light of a diversity of economic relations, and the importance of the legal and social conditions of women to their business opportunities. Drawing on cutting-edge scholarship in the "new business history," this volume covers everything from firms and markets, to small and large businesses, to workers and entrepreneurs. The extensive research from both primary and secondary sources, incorporates the latest scholarship on women and business and is presented in clear, jargon-free prose that makes this introduction to women's business history accessible to scholars, students, and everyone interested in the role of American women in business throughout history.

Mansel Blackford

The single best history of the varied roles women have played in American business from the colonial period to the present day.

Edwin J. Perkins

A masterful, pathbreaking study that fills a huge gap in historical literature.

Booknews

First published in 1998, this book surveys the history of women in business, from seventeenth-century fur traders to twentieth-century movie producers. The diversity of women's experiences in the business world, and the effects of legal and social conditions on that experience are foregrounded. The book considers the experiences of women as entrepreneurs, managers and professionals, workers, and within families. Kwolek-Folland teaches history and women's studies at the University of Florida. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Table of Contents:

	Foreword
	Acknowledgments
1	Incorporating Others: The Social Categories of Business History	1
2	Female Economies: Women and Business in Preindustrial America, 1550-1830	13
3	Mills and More: Women's Business and the First Industrial Revolution, 1830-1880	47
4	Personal Work: Women's Business in a Corporate World, 1880-1930	85
5	Crisis Management: Women and Business at Midcentury, 1930-1963	130
6	Difference at Work: The Renewal of the Businesswoman, 1963-1997	169
7	Conclusion	211
	Notes and References	217
	Bibliographic Essay	229
	Index	259

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Realising Strategy in Management: Themes and Applications

Author: Loizos Heracleous

Examining some of the new and emerging issues in strategic management, Loizos Heracleous presents an original approach to the established ideas of strategy. He emphasizes the importance of organizational culture in realizing strategy and applies this concept to such important new areas as corporate governance and the impact of the Internet on business organization and activity. Combining original research with thorough surveys of the literature, the book is intended for MBA level students, researchers and professionals.