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Titre LES GRANDES ENTREPRISES EUROPÉENNES AU 20e SIÈCLE
Auteur Youssef Cassis
Mir@bel Revue 20 & 21. Revue d'histoire
Titre à cette date : Vingtième siècle, revue d'histoire
Numéro no 52, octobre-décembre 1996 Les crises économiques du 20e siècle
Rubrique / Thématique
LES CRISES ÉCONOMIQUES DU 20e SIÈCLE
Page 102-113
Résumé anglais Major European companies in the 20th century, Youssef Cassis. It is difficult to avoid the temptation of ranking the major companies when making a comparative analysis. While such an approach can be useful by pointing out the differences and simplifying the comparative work, it accentuates the divergences to the detriment of convergences observable over the long term, nationally as well as world wide. The example of the behavior of French, English and German companies facing 20th-century crises shows that global explanatory factors give different effects to the same causes. The comparative approach has thus to take into account divergences and convergences so as to deepen the analysis rather than simplify it by general categories and rankings.
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