In contrast to older views of the passive role of London houses in the American trade, the active influence of a leading English merchant on the business decision-making of his colonial counterparts emerges from this case study.

A neglected trade and its commodities are emphasized in Professor Lydon's consideration of the colonial merchants' search for profitable returns to England.

The organizational alternatives available to businessmen are often important in the channeling of economic growth, as shown in this historical study of the French experience.

The interaction of business and political goals and strategies is emphasized in this critique of a key state bank's role in national affairs of the 1830's.

The uncertainties of predicting and mitigating social reactions to business innovation are amusingly demonstrated in this study of an early public-relations crisis.

Inter-agency argument within the government and indecision and disagreement among businessmen over the demobilization of America's wartime economic controls are considered in this study of government-business relations.

The following piece contains valuable information on medieval industrial and labor history. It is a translation from a family chronicle and autobiography written by the Nürnberg patrician, merchant, and statesman, Ulman Stromer (1329–1407). Stromer is considered to have been the creator of the German large-scale paper industry which he founded in 1390 by building a paper mill near his home town.