Zeitschrift für Unternehmensgeschichte

Using a modern business history approach this paper analyses FIFA’s strategy and structure since its first «World’s Cup» in 1930; it asks how the organization was restructured in the course of its growth; and it intends to show that FIFA’s...

This paper investigates the introduction of nylon, the first fully synthetic yarn, into the Dutch hosiery industry. Synthetic materials have often been studied from a producer perspective, emphasizing their efforts to introduce new or improved...

This article examines the effects of Germany’s occupation of the Netherlands on the corporate governance structure of the Anglo-Dutch Unilever company, which had huge interests on both sides of World War II. It focuses on the continental side of...

This article provides a historical perspective to current debates whether large global firms are becoming «stateless» and whether this is a historically new phenomenon. It shows that a great deal of international business in the nineteenth century...