1st Edition

Internationalisation and Strategic Control An Industrial History

By Morten Pedersen Copyright 2022
232 Pages
by Routledge

232 Pages
by Routledge

232 Pages
by Routledge

This book is a study of the emergence of international business. It immerses itself in the topic of how companies can control income-generating assets in foreign countries, the key element often used to define a multinational enterprise, and propounds the notion that control of crucial dispositions by foreign companies can be achieved by other means than direct foreign investment – cash flow and... Read more

1. The Emergence of International Business: Concepts and Approach 2. The Modern Cement Industry: its Emergence and the Role of F.L. Smidth & Co. 3. Like Living on an Island… Siam and Southeast Asia 1913-1925 4. When China Awakens… China 1890-1938 5. Samurai and Cement Factories. Japan 1922-1938 6. A Strategic Goal of Independence. India 1904-1938 7. A Robust Non-FDI Strategy

Biography

Morten Pedersen is Head of Exhibitions and the Department of History, Nordjyllands Historiske Museum, Denmark.