The Emergence of Multinational Enterprise : : American Business Abroad from the Colonial Era to 1914 /

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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Wilkins, Mira,
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

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