The Emergence of Multinational Enterprise : : American Business Abroad from the Colonial Era to 1914 / / Mira Wilkins.
The first history of the involvement of American business in direct foreign investment explores a number of pertinent questions: What was the genesis of U.S. business interests in overseas markets? What perspectives guided the financial and social policies of the pioneering companies? In what way di...
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Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Harvard University Press eBook Package Backlist 2000-2013 |
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Place / Publishing House: | Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2022] ©2013 |
Year of Publication: | 2022 |
Edition: | Re-issue |
Language: | English |
Series: | Harvard Studies in Business History ;
34 |
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (324 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Tables
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- One. The Early Years
- I. The Trader Becomes an Investor
- II. New Stakes Abroad (1800-1860)
- Two. International Business
- III. The Appearance of Modern International Business (1865-1892)
- IV. Factors Influencing the Growth of American Business Abroad (1893-1914)
- V. Expanding Abroad (1893-1914)
- Three. The Western Hemisphere
- VI. The "Spillover" to Mexico (1876-1914)
- VII. The "Spillover" to Canada (1870-1914)
- VIII. The "Spillover" to the Caribbean (1870-1914)
- IX. The South American Experience
- Four. Summation
- X. The Status of American International Enterprise in 1914
- Bibliography
- Notes
- Index