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.…mehr
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.
* 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
* 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
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