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  title info:
    title: Merchants to multinationals
    sub title: British trading companies in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries
  name:
    name part: Jones, Geoffrey
    name part: 1952-
    role:
      role term: creator
  name:
    name part: Oxford University Press
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: Electronic books.
  genre: History
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: enk
    place:
      place term: Oxford
    publisher: Oxford University Press
    date issued: 2002
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource (414 pages)
  abstract: Annotation Merchants to Multinationals examines the evolution of multinational trading companies from the eighteenth century to the present day. During the Industrial Revolution, British merchants established overseas branches which became major trade intermediaries and subsequently engaged in foreign direct investment. Complex multinational business groups emerged controlling large investments in natural resources, processing, and services in Asia, Latin America, and Africa. While theories of the firm predict the demise over time of merchant firms, this book identifies the continued resilience of British trading companies despite the changing political and business environments of the twentieth century. Like Japanese trading companies, they 're-invented' themselves in successive generations. The competences of the trading companies resided in their information-gathering, relationship-building, human resource, and corporate governance systems. This book provides a new dimension to the literature on international business through the focus on multinational service firms and its evolutionary approach based on confidential business records.
  table of contents: List of Figures; List of Tables; 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
  table of contents: Appendix 3 Sources for calculations on capital employed of British trading companiesSelect Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  note: English.
  subject:
    geographic code: e-uk---
  subject:
    topic: Trading companies
    geographic: Great Britain
    topic: History
  subject:
    topic: International business enterprises
    geographic: Great Britain
    topic: History
  subject:
    topic: Investments, British
    topic: History
  subject:
    topic: International trade
    topic: History
  subject:
    topic: Sociétés de commerce
    geographic: Grande-Bretagne
    topic: Histoire
  subject:
    topic: Entreprises multinationales
    geographic: Grande-Bretagne
    topic: Histoire
  subject:
    topic: Investissements britanniques
    topic: Histoire
  subject:
    topic: Commerce international
    topic: Histoire
  subject:
    topic: BUSINESS & ECONOMICS
  subject:
    topic: International
  subject:
    topic: Management
  subject:
    topic: Strategic Planning
  subject:
    topic: Corporate & Business History
  subject:
    topic: International business enterprises
  subject:
    topic: International trade
  subject:
    topic: Investments, British
  subject:
    topic: Trading companies
  subject:
    geographic: Great Britain
  subject:
    topic: multinationale corporaties
  subject:
    topic: multinational corporations
  subject:
    topic: grote concerns
  subject:
    topic: large firms
  subject:
    topic: handel
  subject:
    topic: trade
  subject:
    topic: kooplieden
  subject:
    topic: merchants
  subject:
    topic: geschiedenis
  subject:
    topic: history
  subject:
    topic: verenigd koninkrijk
  subject:
    topic: uk
  subject:
    topic: economisch beleid
  subject:
    topic: economic policy
  subject:
    topic: economische ontwikkeling
  subject:
    topic: economic development
  subject:
    topic: bedrijfseconomie
  subject:
    topic: business management
  subject:
    topic: International Trade
  subject:
    topic: Internationale handel
  classification: HF1416.6.G7 J66 2002eb
  classification: 338.8 8941 009034
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      title: Oxford scholarship online
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  record info:
    record content source: YNG
    record creation date: 080205
    record change date: 20260318173036.9
    record identifier: in00005702506
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng