European Business, Dictatorship, and Political Risk, 1920-1945For much of the twentieth century, the prevalence of dictatorial regimes has left business, especially multinational firms, with a series of complex and for the most part unwelcome choices. This volume, which includes essays by noted American and European scholars such as Mira Wilkins, Gerald Feldman, Peter Hayes, and Wilfried Feldenkirchen, sets business activity in its political and social context and describes some of the strategic and tactical responses of firms investing from or into Europe to a myriad of opportunities and risks posed by host or home country authoritarian governments during the interwar period. Although principally a work of history, it puts into perspective some commercial dilemmas with which practitioners and business theorists must still unfortunately grapple. |
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Contents
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Multinational Jewish Businesses and the Transfer of Capital | 103 |
Between Parent and Child IBM and Its German Subsidiary | 149 |
The Great Northern Telegraph Company and Dictatorship | 174 |
British Business with | 194 |
The Fate | 206 |
Notes on Contributors | 235 |
Index | 249 |
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Page 103 - The opinions, findings, and conclusions expressed in this report are those of the author alone and do not necessarily reflect those of the EC or any other organization involved in this project.
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Bibliographic information
| Title | European Business, Dictatorship, and Political Risk, 1920-1945 Berghahn Series Volume 1 of Business History and Political Economy |
| Editors | Christopher Kobrak, Per H. Hansen |
| Edition | illustrated |
| Publisher | Berghahn Books, 2004 |
| ISBN | 1571816291, 9781571816290 |
| Length | 261 pages |
| Subjects | › Business & Economics / Economic History |
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