Course Content
Module 1. CAPITALIST INDUSTRIAL ENTERPRISE
Module 2. SOCIALIST INDUSTRIAL ENTERPRISE
- Topic 8. Large Enterprises as a Basis of Soviet Economy
- Topic 9. Improving Labor Productivity: Scientific Management and Stakhanovism in the Soviet Union
- Topic 10. Finding Workers to Build Socialism
- Topic 11. Industrial Enterprise and Townscape: the Kharkiv Tractor Factory Case
- Topic 12. Marketing for Socialism
- Topic 13. Cooperation between Socialist and Capitalist Enterprises
- Topic 14. Industrial Enterprise and Environmental Hazard
- Topic 15. Environmental Degradation and Human Health Problems
- Topic 16. Heritage of Industrial Enterprise in the Postindustrial Period
FINAL PAPER
Topic 1. Introduction: Enterprise and Society
The history of society through the history of enterprises. Business history as a research field. Recent trends in business history research and teaching. Research areas: the history of capitalism, innovations, corporate social responsibility. Business history in Eastern Europe and Russia. The business history of emergent economies.
Read: Friedman, Walter A. “Recent trends in business history research: Capitalism, democracy, and innovation.” Enterprise & Society 18, no. 4 (2017): 748-771.