Patrick Fridenson is Professor of International Business History at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris, France. He previously taught at the University Paris X-Nanterre, and has been Visiting Professor at the University of Tokyo. He is the author, co-author, or editor of several boks, including The Automobile Revolution (Chapel Hill, NC, 1982), The French Home Front, 1914–1918 (Oxford, 1992), Thomson's First Century (Jouy-en-Josas, 1995), Histoire des usines Renault, vol. I (Paris, 1998), and the author of many articles. He is a former President of the Business History Conference of the United States and a former member of the Executive Committee of the International Economic History Association. He is editor of the journal Entreprises et Histoire.