1st Edition

The Large International Firm (RLE International Business)

By Edith Penrose Copyright 1968
312 Pages
by Routledge

312 Pages
by Routledge

320 Pages
by Routledge

This book is a study of the economics of the large international firm, but is at the same time a study of one of the world’s most important industries. International firms face difficult problems in attempting to deal with the conflicts between their own interest as world-wide economic organisations on the one hand, that of the countries in which they operate on the other, and with the conflicts... Read more

Notes. Acknowledgements. 1. Introduction. 2. The Nature and Economic Significance of the Large International Firm. 3. The Development of the International Petroleum Industry. 4. The International Petroleum Companies. 5. Control of Supply By the Companies. 6. Prices and the Organization of The Industry. 7. The International Oil Companies in Developing Countries: 1 Major Exporters. 8. The International Oil Companies in Developing Countries: 2 Importers and Minor Producers. 9. The Direction of Change. 10. The Future of the Large International Firm. 11. The Oil Industry in Latin America P R Odell. Bibliography. Index.

Biography

Edith Penrose