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Zusatztext The range of concerns reaised by the concept attests to its value and must attract a wide readership to this volume. Those interested in institutional economics will find the theoretical chapters and the case studies particularly stimulating. The book will be useful to scholars of multinational enterprises of all types, international business, and, of course, business and economic history. EH.NET and H-Business (Gordon Boyce, School of Economics and Finance, Victoria University of Wellington) 07/99 Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung Traces the history of a special type of multinational enterprise that proliferated in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Contributions from international scholars, economists and historians provide analysis of these companies' operations in different parts of the world. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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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