Global Electrification - Multinational Enterprise International Finance in History of Light

Klappentext This book offers an analysis of multinational enterprise throughout the world by examining the spread of electrification. Zusammenfassung This book examines how! from the late 1870s! multinational enterprises and international finance influenced the spread of electrification around the world. Although by 1978 they had been replaced by electrical utility providers! more recently they have had a revival. The result is a truly global account of electrification. Inhaltsverzeichnis Part I. Concepts: 1. Invention and spread of electrical utilities with a measure of the extent of foreign ownership; 2. Multinational enterprise and international finance; Part II. Changes: 3. Every city, 1880-1914; 4. War, the first nationalization, restructuring, and renewal, 1914-29; 5. Basic infrastructure, 1929-45; Part III. Conclusions: 6. Summary of the domestication pattern to 1978; 7. Coming full circle, 1978-2007, and a global perspective.

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• Authors: William J. Hausman, William J. (College of William and Mary Hausman, William J. Hertner Hausman, Hausman William J., Peter Hertner, Hertner Peter, Mira Wilkins, Wilkins Mira
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.06.2011
• EAN: 9780521299008
• ISBN: 978-0-521-29900-8
• No. of pages: 512
• Series: Cambridge Studies in the Emerg; Cambridge Studies in the Emergence of Global Enterprise
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Business > Individual industrial sectors, branches; BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Economic History, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / International / General, 20th Century, c 1800 to c 1900, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, Economic history, International Economics, c 2000 to c 2010, c 2000 to c 2009, International Finance