Preface; 1. Introduction: multinational enterprise Barry Supple; 2.
History, the social sciences and economic 'theory', with special reference
to multinational enterprise Edith Penrose; 3. The changing form of
multinational enterprise expansion in the twentieth century John Cantwell;
4. Electrical research, standardisation and the beginnings of the corporate
economy Mikulás Teich; 5. The nature of multinationals, 1870-1939 T. A. B.
Corley; 6. International price maintenance: control of commodity trade in
the 1920s Joseph Brandes; 7. Financial operations of US transnational
corporations: development after the Second World War and recent tendencies
Monika Sestáková; 8. Multinational enterprise - financing, trade,
diplomacy: the Swedish case Klaus Wohlert; 9. Foreign penetration of German
enterprises after the First World War: the problem of Überfremdung Gerald
D. Feldman; 10. International industrial cartels, the state and politics:
Great Britain between the wars Clemens A. Wurm; 11. Vickers and Schneider:
a comparison of new British and French multinational strategies 1916-26 R.
P. T. Davenport-Hines; 12. J. & P. Coats Ltd in Poland Emma Harris; 13.
Multinationals and the French electrical industry, 1889-1940 Pierre
Lanthier; 14. The Japanese cotton spinners' direct investments into China
before the Second World War Tetsuya Kuwahara; 15. Mitsui Bussan during the
1920s Hiroaki Yamazaki; 16. Japanese business in the United States before
the Second World War: the case of Mitsui and Mitsubishi Nobuo Kawabe; 17.
The state and private enterprise in the United States-Latin American oil
policy Stephen J. Randall; 18. Transnational corporations and the
denationalization of the Latin American cigarette industry Phil Sheperd;
19. Summary: reflections on the papers and the debate on multinational
enterprise: international finance, markets and governments in the twentieth
century Charles Kindleberger; Indexes.
