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The Free-standing company in the world economy, 1830-1996
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- Creator
- edited by Mira Wilkins and Harm Schröter
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Contributors
- Publication
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- Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1998
- Physical Details
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- xxi, 480 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- ISBNs
- 9780198290322, 0198290322
- OCLC
- ocm40569536
- Includes rewritten papers from a session on free-standing companies held at the 11th International Economic History Congress, in Milan, Italy, Sept. 1994.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [440]-461) and index.
- The free-standing company revisited / Mira Wilkins -- Transcation-cost theory and the free-standing firm / Jean-François Hennart -- An economic theory of the free-standing company / Mark Casson -- The free-standing company, in theory and practice / T.A.B. Corley -- Free-standing companies in India, 1883-1912 / Peter Hertner -- British free-standing companies in Tsarist Russia / Natalia Gurushina -- British free-standing companies and investment groups in India and the Far East / Stanley Chapman -- British free-standing companies on the West Coast of South America / Rory Miller -- British free-standing companies in Mexico, 1884-1911 / Reinhard Liehr and Mariano E. Torres Bautista -- A French free-standing company in Brazil's sugar industry : a case study of the Société de Sucreries Bresiliennes, 1907-1922 / Tamás Szmrecsányi -- Dutch free-standing companies, 1870-1940 / Ben P.A. Gales and Keetie E. Sluyterman -- Continental European free-standing companies : the case of Belgium, Germany, and Switzerland / Harm Schröter -- British overseas banks as free-standing companies, 1830-1996 / Geoffrey Jones -- US foreign direct investment in electric utilities in the 1920s / William J. Hausman and John L. Neufeld -- The Montreal Engineering Company and international power : overcoming the limitations of the free-standing utility / Gregory P. Marchildon -- The significance of the concept and a future agenda / Mira Wilkins