Business History articles from January 1994

Business History archives from January 1994

Comparative hosts. (Special Issue: The Making of Global Enterprise)
January 1, 1994... 21. J.N. Bhagwati, E. Dinopoulos and K.-Y. Wong, 'Quid Pro Quo Foreign Investment', American Economic Review, Vol.82 (May 1992), p. 189, refer to the 'conventional politics-free approaches' to the theory of multinationals. My work does not fall...

International financial capital transfers: a transaction cost framework. (Special Issue: The Making of Global Enterprise)
January 1, 1994... I Until the seminal work of John Dunning and Stephen Hymer, the expansion abroad of multinational enterprises (MNEs) was seen as the consequence of the international export of financial capital, and was assumed to depend on international...

Britain's overseas investments in 1914 revisited. (Special Issue: The Making of Global Enterprise)
January 1, 1994... Despite a considerable amount of research, the anatomy of the pre-1914 British economy has not yet been completely laid bare. A recent useful approach was via the topic of comparative, or competitive, advantage. Nicholas Crafts and Mark Thomas...

Foreign multinationals in British manufacturing, 1850-1962. (Special Issue: The Making of Global Enterprise)
January 1, 1994... 48 Rubber and Plastics 49 Other Manufacturing Industries NOTES The authors would like to thank the ESRC for funding this research under grant No. R000 23 2275 awarded to Geoffrey Jones. Many people provided useful information for this...

Negotiating technology transfers within multinational enterprises; perspectives from Canadian history. (Special Issue: The Making of Global Enterprise)
January 1, 1994... (Montreal, 1944), pp.111-42. 12. G.D. Smith, Anatomy of a Business Strategy: Bell, Western Electric and the Origins of the American Telephone Industry (Baltimore, MD, 1985), Chs. 2-4; see also R.W. Garnet, The Telephone Enterprise: The...

I.G. Farben in Japan: the transfer of technology and managerial skills. (Special Issue: The Making of Global Enterprise)
January 1, 1994... I This article deals with the technology and management transfer from the German to the Japanese chemical industries during the 1920s and 1930s.(1) Before 1945, I.G. Farbenindustrie Aktiengesellschaft (hereafter referred to as I.G. Farben),...

After Henry: continuity and change in Ford Motor Company. (Special Issue: The Making of Global Enterprise)
January 1, 1994... Since 1979 the Ford Motor Co. has fundamentally reoriented its global strategy, restructured its management processes and attempted radically to revise its labour relations. From 1945 to the late 1970s Ford's management structure and culture...

Perry of London: A Family and a Firm on the Seaborne Frontier.
January 1, 1994... As a young researcher, Jacob Price dreamt of finding the complete records of one of the more successful firms in the emerging trade between Britain and her colonies, and especially that with the Chesapeake, but despite a lifetime of highly...

Myth, History and the Industrial Revolution.
January 1, 1994... This volume contains ten essays, nine of which may be familiar to readers of Business History. Spanning four decades of study, they examine aspects of industry and business from the early modern period to the present and demonstrate the quality...

The T. and T. Clark Story.
January 1, 1994... This book is not quite what its title suggests. Primarily it is a study, based on Dempster's Ph.D. thesis, of the Edinburgh publishing firm of T. & T. Clark in the 1880s and 1890s. The periods between 1821, when Thomas Clark founded the company,...

Britain in the International Economy: 1870-1939.
January 1, 1994... The papers in this volume were presented at a Festschrift in July 1989 on the occasion of Alex Ford's retirement from the Chair of Economics at the University of Warwick. Ford's previous academic work had been set firmly in the Keynesian mould,...

The Industrial Revolution and Work in Nineteenth Century Europe.
January 1, 1994... The series Rewriting Histories, to which this volume is a welcome addition, reflects the continuous process of revisionism involved in the historian's search for the truth. The collection edited by Berlanstein focuses on nineteenth-century labour...

France at the Crystal Palace: Bourgeois Taste and Artisan Manufacture in the Nineteenth Century.
January 1, 1994... French exhibits at the Crystal Palace Exhibition of 1851 had a great success and won many prizes. Whitney Walton's interesting study not only explains why but looks in some detail at consumer tastes and methods of production in...

Les Transports, 2 vols.
January 1, 1994... These two volumes are special issues of the journal Histoire, economie et societe, dealing with European inland transport in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. They represent a cross-section of the papers delivered at a roundtable session at...

Der Springer-Verlag: Stationen Seiner Geschichte Teil I, 1842-1945.
January 1, 1994... This history of Springer, the German publishing house, is an exceptionally good example of a genre, the in-house publishing history, which all too often is represented by slight, rather disappointing books. Heinz Sarkowski has had the benefit of...

Die Entwicklung der Lebensarbeitszeit. Festschrift fur Dr Reinhart Freudenberg.
January 1, 1994... In present-day Germany, as elsewhere, the average age of first gainful employment is rising, working hours are shortening, holiday entitlement is lengthening and age of retirement is falling. Meanwhile life expectancy steadily lengthens . .... .

European Industry and Banking Between the Wars.
January 1, 1994... Originating from papers presented to a conference held in 1989 in Uppsala, these articles contribute to a broader research programme initiated by Alice Teichova which focuses on bank-industry relations in inter-war Europe. The book itself is...

Research and Technology in the Former German Democratic Republic.
January 1, 1994... With the reunification of the two German states on 3 October 1990 the German Democratic Republic (GDR) ceased to exist and the Federal Republic of Germany (FRG) was simultaneously expanded by five new states. The altered legal, financial and...

American Multinationals and Japan: The Political Economy of Japanese Capital Controls, 1899-1980.
January 1, 1994... The economic, political and cultural bonds between the world's two most powerful economies of the late twentieth century have undergone many perplexing transformations over the past 140 years, and have often seemed to represent a classic...

Foley and Lardner: Attorneys at Law, 1842-1992.
January 1, 1994... Writing in the early 1890s to his son (who was then over 30 years old) the then senior partner of this Milwaukee law firm dismissed claims of overwork and stress and advised 'Buy a horse and ride it every day, rain or shine. Dress warmly. Eat...

The Japanese Enterprise System: Competitive Strategies and Co-operative Structures.
January 1, 1994... This book can be seen as the 'fourth leg' to Chandler's Scale and Scope. Professor Fruin -- the historian of Kikkoman and author of a forthcoming study (Knowledge Works) of Toshiba's Yanagicho factory -- generously acknowledges Chandler's...

US-Japan Comparison in National Formation and Transformation of Technology Centering Around Mass Production Systems: 1900-1990.
January 1, 1994... This volume comprises papers and commentaries from a small workshop marking the first year of 'Research and Studies on Worldwide Technological Exchange', an initiative funded by the Japan Science Foundation to formulate guidelines on technology...

Mariners and Markets.
January 1, 1994... The aim of this book is to examine the efficiency of the market for seafarers before the coming of steam in order to test the popular view that it conformed to the neo-classical stereotype of a market kept in equilibrium by the forces of supply...

Multinational Investment in Modern Europe: Strategic Interaction in the Integrated Community.
January 1, 1994... This collection of essays is the product of collaborative studies and seminar meetings held over four years, and focuses on the central theme of the growth in foreign direct investment (FDI) which has been so marked in recent years. This...

International Directory of Company Histories, vol. 5.
January 1, 1994... Retail and wholesale trade, rubber and tyre manufacture, telecommunications, textiles and apparel, tobacco, transport services, utilities, waste services: these are the sectors covered in the latest (and presumably the last) volume in this useful...