Historical Studies in International Corporate Business [Hardcover]

A 1989 collection of essays based on original historical research in national and private bank and business archives.This 1989 sequel to Multinational Enterprise in Historical Perspective raises further questions on the idea of the firm, on periodisation and on research and development, and examines the international financial operations of worldwide corporate business. All the contributions are based on original historical research in national and private bank and business archives.This 1989 sequel to Multinational Enterprise in Historical Perspective raises further questions on the idea of the firm, on periodisation and on research and development, and examines the international financial operations of worldwide corporate business. All the contributions are based on original historical research in national and private bank and business archives.In this sequel to Multinational Enterprise in Historical Perspective (1986) the same editorial team continues the historical explanation of a vital but often misconstrued commercial phenomenon. The contributory essays, each written by an authority in the field and based on original historical research, raise further theoretical questions on the idea of the firm, on periodization, and on research and development, and examine the international financial operations of worldwide corporate business. The discussion is extended to include the production of mass consumer goods and the regions of China, Japan, and Latin America.Preface; 1. Introduction: multinational enterprise Barry Supple; 2. History, the social sciences and economic 'theory', with special reference to multinational enterprise Edith Penrose; 3. The changing form of multinational enterprise expansion in the twentieth century John Cantwell; 4. Electrical research, standardisation and the beginnings of the corporate economy Mikul?s Teich; 5. The nature of multinationals, 18701939 T. A. B. Corley; 6. International price maintenance: control of commodity trade in thel“'