Teresa da Silva Lopes is Professor of International Business and Business History and Director of the Centre for Evolution of Global Business and Institutions at the University of York, UK. She is also the President of the Business History Conference.

Christina Lubinski is Associate Professor at the Centre for Business History at Copenhagen Business School and Visiting Professor of Clinical Entrepreneurship at the Lloyd Greif Center for Entrepreneurial Studies, University of Southern California, USA.

Heidi J.S. Tworek is Assistant Professor of International History at the University of British Columbia, Canada. She received the Herman E. Krooss Prize for best dissertation in business history.

The Routledge Companion to the Makers of Global Business draws together a wide array of state-of-the-art research on this area of business. It aims to deepen our historical understanding of how firms and entrepreneurs contributed to transformative processes of globalization.

Part 1: Introduction and Context 1. Introduction to the Makers of Global Business 2. Origins and Development of Global Business 3. The Making of Global Business in Long-run Perspective 4. International Entrepreneurship and Business History 5. Gender and Race in Global Entrepreneurship Part 2: Institutions 6. Government and Regulators 7. Banks and Capital Markets 8. The Internationalization of Executive Education 9. Consultants and Internationalization Part 3: Organizational Forms 10. Guilds 11. Merchants and the Origins of Capitalism 12. Diaspora Networks 13. Trading Companies 14. Co-operatives 15. Business Groups 16. International Business Networks 17. Clusters as Spaces for Global Integration 18. Global Value Chains 19. State-Owned Enterprises Part 4: Industries 20. Global Communications 21. Electric Power Industry 22. Healthcare Industries and Services 23. Insurance 24. Entertainment and the Film Industry 25. Automobiles 26. Manufacturing and the Importance of Global Marketing 27. Luxury 28. Shipping 29. Global Commodity Traders 30. The Global Oil Industry Part 5: Challenges and Impact 31. Political Risk and Nationalism 32. Imitation and the Case of the Global Wine Industry 33. Combating Corruption 34. Multinational Management 35. Business and Sustainability 36. Pollution and Climate Change 37. The Great Divergence and the Great Convergence