| Contents | 7 |
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| About the Authors | 10 |
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| Part I General | 14 |
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| The European Enterprise. Its Relevance and Problems | 15 |
| European Corporations: Ownership, Governance, Strategies and Structures. A Review of Five Countries: United Kingdom, Germany, France, Italy and Spain | 35 |
| Europe as Home and Host to Multinational Enterprise | 49 |
| Common European Assets: A Japanese View on the ‘ European Enterprise’ | 63 |
| Part II Impact of Brussels | 76 |
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| Defining a European Vehicle: Community Standards as Integration Tools or Trade Barriers for European Enterprises? | 77 |
| Scotch Over Bourbon1: How British Principles of Accounting Became the Norm for Financial Reporting in Europe | 91 |
| The Impact of European Integration on Institutional Change in Switzerland | 106 |
| European Institutions and Enterprises in Sweden | 120 |
| Facilitating Technology Services: National and European Standards and the Shaping of FORCE Technology, 1940– 2005 | 135 |
| Part III Europe as an Aim and as a Tool | 146 |
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| The European Enterprise as a Fortress – The Rise and Fall of Unidata Between Common European Market and International Competition in the Early 1970s | 147 |
| Europeanisation and Americanisation: Converging Backgrounds of German and Dutch Top Managers, 1990– 2005 | 161 |
| Suez Towards a European Enterprise ( 1982– 2006)? | 174 |
| Greek Business in Southeast Europe: National, Regional, or European? | 188 |
| Did the Progressive Absorption of the French Paper Industry Create European Firms? | 200 |
| Part IV European Business or Business in Europe? | 211 |
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| The Rise of the New Public Service Transnationals: European or Global Phenomenon? | 212 |
| Corporate Responses to Institutional Changes – the Effects of Europeanisation in the Case of Denmark, 1973– 2003 | 226 |
| European, Global or Norwegian? The Norwegian Aluminium Companies, 1946– 2005 | 243 |
| Changing Transnational Affections. Orkla, Elkem and Norwegian Big Business, 1960– 20041 | 255 |
| European Challenges and Opportunities: The Role of Europe in the Internationalisation of Spanish Firms | 270 |
| Part V Conclusion | 281 |
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| The Development Toward a European Enterprise: Results and Conclusions | 282 |
