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Security and Insecurity in Business History : Case Studies in the Perception and Negotiation of Threats.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Jakob, Mark
Corporate Author: ProQuest (Firm)
Other Authors: Kleinöder, Nina, Kleinschmidt, Christian
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Baden-Baden : Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft, 2021.
Series:Wirtschafts- und Sozialgeschichte des modernen Europa - Economic and Social History of Modern Europe.
Subjects:
Industries > Security measures > Management.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Cover
  • The Security and Insecurity of Enterprises: Constructing and Negotiating Dangers, Hazards, and Threats in Business History
  • Introduction
  • 1. The semantics of security and insecurity: risk, danger, and threats
  • 2. Enterprises and security
  • 3. Themes and subject matters in this volume
  • Bibliography
  • Weak States, Strong Businesses? The History of Private Security Firms in Twentieth-Century Germany
  • Introduction: Security beyond the State?
  • 1. State of the Art: Bringing Security back to Contemporary History
  • 2. Rise and Fall, and Rise again? A brief History of the Security Industry in Twentieth-century Germany
  • 3. Perspectives: From 'National Security Cultures' to global 'Security Capitalism'?
  • Conclusion: 'Weak' States, 'Strong' Businesses?
  • Bibliography
  • Food and Supply Security in the first Phase of Globalisation: the Role of Producers, Consumers, and the State in the German Empire
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. The consumers
  • 3. The producers
  • 4. The State
  • 5. Conclusion
  • Bibliography
  • Between Entrepreneurial Risk-Taking and Reason of State: Export Credit Insurance in Germany and Britain during the Interwar Period
  • 1. Principles and the beginnings of trade credit insurance
  • 2. The creation and operation of the British and German TCI schemes
  • Britain
  • Germany
  • 3. The state-backed high hopes of Gutehoffnungshütte in Colombia
  • 4. Summary and conclusion
  • Bibliography
  • Multinationals' Need for State Protection: the Creation of the Swiss Investment Risk Guarantee in the 1960s
  • Political Risk in Host States versus Political Assistance from Home States: two Sides of the same Coin
  • Swiss MNEs, Political Risks and Institutional Activism
  • The Debates within the Business Community
  • The Implementation of the IRG
  • A State Insurance Designed by and for Swiss MNEs
  • Bibliography
  • The Management of Foreign Direct Investment Risk by two Norwegian Firms in the 1960s and 1970s
  • Definitions: Risk and risk management
  • Background and context
  • Dyno Industrier
  • Norcem
  • Risk management strategies
  • Political risk
  • Entry mode
  • Summary and Conclusions