Pier Angelo Toninelli Editor

Franco Amatori is Professor of Economic History as well as director of the Institute of the same at Bocconi University. His research interest in business history covers both Italian as well as international cases. He has published extensively including Big Business and the Wealth of Nations (co-editor with A. D. Chandler and Takashi Hikino, 1997) and Business History around the World (co-edited with Geoffrey Jones, 2003). Robert Millward is has been Professor of Economic History at the University of Manchester, UK, since 1989 and Professor Emeritus since 2005. Recent research has focused on Europe’s infrastructure industries and its demography, as in his contribution to the new Cambridge Economic History of Modern Europe (ed. Broadberry and O’Rourke, 2010) and his own book, Private and Public Enterprise in Europe: Energy, Telecommunications and Transport: 1830-1990, 2005. Pier Angelo Toninelli is Professor of Contemporary and Business History at the Department of Economics of the University of Milano-Bicocca. He has published extensively on the history of state-owned enterprise, of accounting, of comparative economic growth and entrepreneurship. He has just edited the volume The Determinants of Entrepreneurship: Leadership, Culture, Institutions (with J.L. Garcia-Ruiz, 2010).