Geoffrey G. Jones

Geoffrey G. Jones (* 1952 ) is a British historian who researched corporate history .

Life

Jones studied at Corpus Christi College of the University of Cambridge , where he obtained a Bachelor of Arts (Honors), a Master of Arts and a Ph.D. From 1977 to 1979 Jones was a Research Fellow at Corpus Christi College. He then taught from 1979 to 1988 at the Economic History Department of the London School of Economics as a lecturer . From 1988 to 2002 he was Professor of International Business History in the Economics Department of the University of Reading . From 1999 to 2002 he was visiting professor at the Erasmus University Rotterdam . From 2000 to 2002 he was also active at the Harvard Business School of Harvard University as Thomas Henry Carroll-Ford Foundation Visiting Professor of Business Administration . Since 2002 he has held the chair of Isidor Straus Professor of Business History at Harvard Business School. Jones was also visiting professor at Gakushūin University and Universidad de los Andes .

He has been a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society since 1991 and of the Academy of International Business since 2009 , and has received honorary doctorates from Copenhagen Business School and the University of Helsinki . In 2000 and 2005 he won the Wadsworth Prize for Company History.

with Peter Hertner (Ed.): Multinationals: Theory and History (1986, Gower)
(Ed.): British Multinationals: Origins, Management and Performance (1986, Gower)
Banking and Empire in Iran: The History of the British Bank of the Middle East , Volume 1 (1986, Cambridge University Press )
Banking and Oil: The History of the British Bank of the Middle East , Volume 2 (1987, Cambridge University Press)
with Richard Davenport-Hines (Ed.): Enterprise, Management and Innovation in British Business 1914-1980 (1988, Frank Cass)
with Richard Davenport-Hines (Ed.): The End of Insularity, Essays in Comparative Business History (1988, Frank Cass)
with Frances Bostock: Planning and Power in Iran (1989, Frank Cass)
with Richard Davenport-Hines (Ed.): British Business in Asia since 1860 (1989, Cambridge University Press)
(Ed.): Banks as Multinationals (1990, Routledge)
with Maurice W. Kirby (Ed.): Competitiveness and the State (1991, Manchester University Press )
(Ed.): Banks and Money : International and Comparative Finance in History (1991, Frank Cass)

(Ed.): Multinational and International Banking (1992, Edward Elgar )

with Charles Harvey (Ed.): Organizational Capability and Competitive Advantage (1992, Frank Cass)

British Multinational Banking 1830-1990 (1993, Clarendon Press )

with Harm Schroter (Ed.): The Rise of Multinationals in Continental Europe (1993, Edward Elgar)

(Ed.): Transnational Corporations: A Historical Perspective (1993, Routledge )

with Richard Tedlow (Ed.): The Rise and Fall of Mass Marketing (1993, Routledge)

with Mary Rose (Ed.): Family Capitalism (1993, Frank Cass)

(Ed.): Coalitions and Collaboration in International Business (1993, Edward Elgar)

(Ed.): The Making of Global Enterprise (1994, Frank Cass)

with Nicholas J. Morgan (Ed.): Adding Value. Brands and Marketing in Food and Drink (1994, Routledge)

The Evolution of International Business (1996, Routledge)

(Ed.): The Trader Multinationals (1998, Routledge)

Merchants to Multinationals (2000, Oxford University Press )

with Lina Galvez-Munoz (Ed.): Foreign Multinationals in the United States (2001, Routledge)

with Franco Amatori (Ed.): Business History around the World (2003, Cambridge University Press)

Multinationals and Global Capitalism: From the Nineteenth to Twenty First Century (2005, Oxford University Press, 2005)

Renewing Unilever. Transformation and Tradition (2005, Oxford University Press)

with Jonathan Zeitlin (Ed.): The Oxford Handbook of Business History (2008, Oxford University Press)

Beauty Imagined. A History of the Global Beauty Industry (2010, Oxford University Press)

with Andrea Lluch (Ed.): El Impacto Histórico de la Globalización en Argentina y Chile: Empresas y Empresarios (2011, Temas Grupo)

with Andrea Lluch (Ed.): The Impact of Globalization on Argentina and Chile: Business Enterprises and Entrepreneurship (2015, Edward Elgar)

with Walter A. Friedman (Ed.): The Rise of the Modern Firm (2012, Edward Elgar)

Entrepreneurship and Multinationals. Global Business and the Making of the Modern World (2013, Edward Elgar)

with Walter A. Friedman (Ed.): Business History (2014, Edward Elgar)

Profits and Sustainability: A Global History of Green Entrepreneurship (2017, Oxford University Press)