Module Identifier HY37930  
Module Title THE RISE OF THE CORPORATE ECONOMY IN THE USA,EUROPE+JAPAN  
Academic Year 2000/2001  
Co-ordinator Dr Richard Coopey  
Semester Intended For Use In Future Years  
Next year offered N/A  
Next semester offered N/A  
Course delivery Lecture   18 Hours  
  Seminars / Tutorials   10 Hours  
Assessment Exam   3 Hours   60%  
  Essay   2 essays (1 x 4,000 words, 1 x 2,500 words)   40%  

Brief description
This option module will chart the shaping of the modern economy and the determinants of corporate structure, success and failure, from a historical and comparative perspective, during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The module will examine varying historical interpretations of changing emphases of scale, scope and strategy and will include, for example, the growth of the large-scale US corporation and multinational; anatomies of the Japanese Zaibatsu/Keiretsu systems; the Mittelstand sector of medium-sized firms in Germany and the new South-East Asian 'tigers' such as South Korea and Taiwan. The module will have an internal and external focus. In addition to examining formal industrial relations systems, for example, it will outline the cultural and social context in which these systems thrive.