1st Edition
International Business, Multi-Nationals, and the Nationality of the Company
1. Nationality in Times of Economic and Political Turbulences
Boris Gehlen, Christian Marx and Alfred Reckendrees
2. International business, multinational enterprises and nationality of the company: a constructive review of literature
Alfred Reckendrees, Boris Gehlen and Christian Marx
3. The paradox of nationality: Foreign investment in Portuguese Africa (1890–1974)
Álvaro Ferreira da Silva and Pedro Neves
4. Changing corporate domicile: The case of the Rhodesian Selection Trust companies
Simon Mollan, Billy Frank and Kevin Tennent
5. Corporate structural change for tax avoidance: British multinational enterprises and international double taxation between the First and Second World Wars
Ryo Izawa
6. National conflicts in a multinational: The case of the Dutch-German AKU/VGF/Akzo, 1920s to 1970s
Christian Marx and Ben Wubs
7. Filling a colonial void? German business strategies and development assistance in India, 1947–1974
Julian Faust
8. ‘American Management’ vs ‘Swiss Labour Peace’. The closure of the Swiss Firestone factory in 1978
Sabine Pitteloud
9. The defence of cosmopolitan capitalism by Sir Charles Addis, 1914-1919: A microhistorical study of a classical liberal banker in wartime
Andrew Smith and Maki Umemura
Biography
Boris Gehlen is Professor of Business History at Stuttgart University, Germany. His areas of interest are business and financial history, history of entrepreneurship, regulation and corporate governance.
Christian Marx is Researcher at Leibniz Institute for Contemporary History, Germany. His areas of interest are business history, corporate networks, social and economic history, financial history, and the European history of the 19th and 20th centuries.
Alfred Reckendrees is Associate Professor for Business History at the Copenhagen Business School, Centre for Business History, Denmark. His areas of interest include entrepreneurship, corporate governance, organizational change, economic and institutional change in the 19th and 20th centuries across Europe, and the evolution and change of social orders.
