Merchants to Multinationals: British Trading Companies in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries
Awards:   Winner of Wadsworth Prize for Business History 2001.
Author:   Geoffrey Jones (, Geoffrey Jones is Joseph C. Wilson Professor of Business Administration, Department of Entrepreneurial Management, Harvard Business School)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
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9780199249992


Pages:   414
Publication Date:   07 March 2002
Format:   Paperback
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Merchants to Multinationals: British Trading Companies in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries


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  • Winner of Wadsworth Prize for Business History 2001.

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Author:   Geoffrey Jones (, Geoffrey Jones is Joseph C. Wilson Professor of Business Administration, Department of Entrepreneurial Management, Harvard Business School)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
Imprint:   Oxford University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 2.20cm , Length: 23.40cm
Weight:   0.609kg
ISBN:  

9780199249992


ISBN 10:   0199249997
Pages:   414
Publication Date:   07 March 2002
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   To order   Availability explained
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Table of Contents

1: Trading Companies in Theory and History 2: Foundations 3: From Trade to Investment 4: Trading in Crisis 5: Concentration and Diversification 6: Business Groups 7: Governance and Human Resources 8: External Relationships 9: Natural Resources 10: Traders as Manufacturers 11: End Game 12: Conclusion Appendix 1: Post-tax return on net capital employed of selected British trading companies, 1895-1998 Appendix 2: Pre-tax return on net capital employed of selected British trading companies, 1948-1998 Appendix 3: Sources for calculations on capital employed of British trading companies

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... good source material replete with a lot of case studies as to how the British trading companies have evolved to make their mark over globabl trade and become common household names today. DAWN, Pakistan ... a valuable source of information and would be a good read for those interested in the subject. DAWN, Pakistan


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Joseph C. Wilson Professor of Business Administration, Entrepreneurial Management Unit, Harvard Business School. He previously taught at the universities of Cambridge and Reading, and at the London School of Economics, in the U.K. He is the author and editor of many books and articles on the history of international business, including British Multinational Banking 1830-1990 (OUP 1993). He is a former President of both the European Business History Association and the Business History Conference of the United States, is co-editor of the journal Business History Review, and editor of the forthcoming Oxford Handbook of Business History.

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