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For much of the twentieth century, the prevalence of dictatorial regimes has left business, especially multinational firms, with a series of complex and for the most part unwelcome choices. This volume, which includes essays by noted American and European scholars such as Mira Wilkins, Gerald Feldman, Peter Hayes, and Wilfried Feldenkirchen, sets business activity in its political and social context and describes some of the strategic and tactical responses of firms investing from or into Europe to a myriad of opportunities and risks posed by host or home country authoritarian governments during the interwar period. Although principally a work of history, it puts into perspective some commercial dilemmas with which practitioners and business theorists must still unfortunately grapple.
List of contents
Introduction Chapter 1. Business, Political Risk, and Historians
Christopher Kobrak,
Per H. Hansen and
Christopher Kopper Chapter 2. Multinationals and Dictatorship
Mira Wilkins Chapter 3. The Axis Multinational Insurers
Gerald D. Feldman Chapter 4. Market Assessment and Domestic Political Risk
Peter Hayes Chapter 5. German Pharmaceutical Companies in South America
Jana Wüstenhagen Chapter 6. Multinational Jewish Business
Martin Dean Chapter 7. Siemens' Investments in Eastern Europe
Wilfred Feldenkirchen Chapter 8. IBM and its German Subsidiary, 1910-1945
Lars Heide Chapter 9. The Great Northern Telegraph Company
Kurt Jacobsen Chapter 10. Managing Risk in the Third Reich
Neil Forbes Chapter 11. Under the Threat of Nazi Occupation
Eduard Kubù,
Jiøi Novotný and
Jiøi souSa Notes on Contributors
Index
About the author
Per H. Hansen is Professor of Business History at the Copenhagen Business School. He has published books and articles in the fields of financial history and the Danish economy during the German occupation. Among his other professional interests are the aesthetic, economic, social and cultural background of Danish Modern furniture design.
Summary
For much of the twentieth century, the prevalence of dictatorial regimes has left business, especially multinational firms, with a series of complex and for the most part unwelcome choices. This volume, which includes essays by noted American and European scholars such as Mira Wilkins, Gerald Feldman, Peter Hayes, and Wilfried Feldenkirchen, sets business activity in its political and social context and describes some of the strategic and tactical responses of firms investing from or into Europe to a myriad of opportunities and risks posed by host or home country authoritarian governments during the interwar period. Although principally a work of history, it puts into perspective some commercial dilemmas with which practitioners and business theorists must still unfortunately grapple.
