Mira Wilkins / Harm Schroter (eds.)

The Free-Standing Company in the World Economy, 1830-1996

Herausgeber: Wilkins, Mira; Schröter, Harm

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

How is --- or was --- business organized over borders? The book offers an historical background. It explores the history and development of the 'free-standing company'. These were compannies, distinct from the classic multinational enterprise, established to organize and to manage business abroad for a European or North American parent company. These firms proliferated in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, a period of extraordinary globalization. Leading international scholars --- economists and historians --- provide evidence on and analysis of the operations of free-standing companies in different parts of the world from 1830 to 1996.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Hurst & Co.
• Seitenzahl: 504
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Januar 1999
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 27mm
• Gewicht: 875g
• ISBN-13: 9780198290322
• ISBN-10: 0198290322
• Artikelnr.: 26624222

Inhaltsangabe

* Part I: Introduction: Background, Theory, and Controversies
* 1: Mira Wilkins: The Free-Standing Company Revisited
* 2: Jean-François Hennart: Transaction-Cost Theory and the
Free-Standing Firm
* 3: Mark Casson: An Economic Theory of the Free-Standing Company
* 4: T. A. B. Corley: The Free-Standing Company, in Theory and Practice
* Part II: Countries and Regions that were Host to Free-Standing
Companies
* 5: Peter Hertner: Free-Standing Companies in Italy, 1883-1912
* 6: Natalia Gurushina: British Free-Standing Companies in Tsarist
Russia
* 7: Stanley Chapman: British Free-Standing Companies and Investment
Groups in India and the Far East
* 8: Rory Miller: British Free-Standing Companies on the West Coast of
South America
* 9: Reinhard Liehr and Mariano E. Torres Bautista: British
Free-Standing Companies in Mexico, 1884-1911
* 10: Tomás Szmrecsányi: A French Free-Standing Company in Brazil's
Sugar Industry: A Case Study of the Société de Sucreries
Bresiliennes, 1907-1922
* Part III: Countries that were Homes to Free-Standing Companies:
General and by Sector
* 11: Ben P. A. Gales and Keetie E. Sluyterman: Dutch Free-Standing
Companies, 1870-1940
* 12: Harm Schröter: Continental European Free-Standing Companies: The
Case of Belgium, Germany, and Switzerland
* 13: Geoffrey Owens: British Overseas Banks as Free-Standing
Companies, 1830-1996
* 14: William J. Hausman and John L. Neufeld: US Foreign Direct
Investment in Electric Utilities in the 1920s
* 15: Gregory P. Marchildon: The Montreal Engineering Company and
International Power: Overcoming the Limitation of the Free-Standing
Utility
* Part IV: Conclusion
* 16: Mira Wilkins: The Significance of the Concept and a Future Agenda