The Rise of Big Business in the World Copper Industry 1870-1930

1986 ◽  
Vol 39 (3) ◽  
pp. 392 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christopher Schmitz
Keyword(s):  
Copper Industry ◽  
Big Business ◽  
The World

External Factors of Big Business Transformation in Russia

2005 ◽  
pp. 72-89 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ya. Pappe ◽  
Ya. Galukhina
Keyword(s):  
Financial Market ◽  
Capital Market ◽  
Business Groups ◽  
External Factors ◽  
Big Business ◽  
Business Transformation ◽  
Global Standards ◽  
The World ◽  
Principal Subject

The paper is devoted to the role of the global financial market in the development of Russian big business. It proves that terms and standards posed by this market as well as opportunities it offers determine major changes in Russian big business in the last three years. The article examines why Russian companies go abroad to attract capital and provides data, which indicate the scope of this phenomenon. It stresses the effects of Russian big business’s interaction with the world capital market, including the modification of the principal subject of Russian big business from integrated business groups to companies and the changes in companies’ behavior: they gradually move away from the so-called Russian specifics and adopt global standards.

Teaching English to the World

English Today ◽  
1985 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 13-18
Author(s):  
Hugh Howse
Keyword(s):  
Second Language ◽  
British Broadcasting Corporation ◽  
Teaching English ◽  
Big Business ◽  
English Teaching ◽  
The World

Teaching English as a foreign or second language is big business these days. The British Broadcasting Corporation is in the forefront, teaching English to millions throughout the world. Its English by Radio and Television Department is almost literally ‘the world's largest English-teaching classroom’. How has this come about, and what do its courses look and sound like?

If I had Known that 35 Years Ago: Contextualizing the Copper Mines of Central Africa

1999 ◽  
Vol 26 ◽  
pp. 449-452 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bruce Fetter
Keyword(s):  
Economic History ◽  
Central Africa ◽  
Academic Careers ◽  
Copper Industry ◽  
New Approach ◽  
European Economic ◽  
The World ◽  
Copper Mines ◽  
Primary Materials

The process of normal scholarship leads young historians to focus on their fields of research with an intensity that is unparalleled during their academic careers. It is no wonder that after a certain interval many change directions, if only to escape the tyranny of the overly familiar. Occasionally, however, we encounter a new approach to our old questions, which forcibly brings us back to our original topic, not with the initial ardor but with the nostalgia of suddenly coming across the photograph of a teenager's crush.Such was my response to discovering Christopher Schmitz's, “The Changing Structure of the World Copper Market, 1870-1939,” in a recent number of the Journal of European Economic History. I wondered just how I would have approached my study of the Central African mines if, between 1963 and 1983, I had had access to this account of the copper industry in its global setting. Mind you, my thirty-one years' experience with undergraduates and master's candidates suggests that it might have made no difference to me at all. So intense is the concentration of our apprentice-historians on their primary materials that it is often difficult to get them to consider contexts beyond those inherent in the sources they use.What was new about Schmitz's synthesis? That is difficult to isolate. He has, indeed, written a series of studies of the copper industry. The article under discussion offers generalizations about the industry as a whole between 1870 and 1939 and the role of various producers and consumers in it for the same period. For the sake of Africanist readers, let me summarize them.

scholarly journals An Econometric Model of the World Copper Industry

1972 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 568 ◽  
Author(s):  
Franklin M. Fisher ◽  
Paul H. Cootner ◽  
Martin Neil Baily
Keyword(s):  
Econometric Model ◽  
Copper Industry ◽  
The World

scholarly journals Influence of the Big Business on Restructuring the World and Russian Econom

2019 ◽  
Vol 15 (2) ◽  
pp. 590-600
Author(s):  
M.I. Maslennikov,
Keyword(s):  
Big Business ◽  
The World

Fight Club’s Production and Promotion

2012 ◽  
pp. 25-44
Author(s):  
Mark Ramey
Keyword(s):  
Music Videos ◽  
Film Production ◽  
Male Youth ◽  
Big Business ◽  
Hollywood Film ◽  
Know How ◽  
David Fincher ◽  
Box Office ◽  
Fight Club ◽  
The World

This chapter identifies the key elements of Fight Club's transition from novel to film. Fight Club is in some ways a paradoxical film: both a product and a critique of big business. Fox and Regency, two big players in Hollywood film production, put 67 million dollars into Fight Club because the talent package was strong. They believed the film would do well — and despite a less-than-hoped-for initial box office run, they have been proved right. Emerging from the world of advertising and music videos, Fight Club's director David Fincher has now established himself as a modern-day auteur. The chapter then considers the performances of the film's cast, including Brad Pitt, Edward Norton, and Helena Bonham Carter. It also comments on the marketing of the film. Fox did not know how to sell Fight Club and so seriously misjudged its marketing and release. Fincher's original and seditious concepts for the marketing were rejected for more conventional action-orientated fare, aimed at a male youth market. This backfired in the post-Columbine climate and failed to connect with the broader youth market, which has now found significance in the film and elevated it to cult status.

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