Multinationals and Global Capitalism
«Jones's book is very useful, both as an introduction to the business scholarship on multinationals and as a very accessible text...I would declare it a great success.»
Journal of World History
This book provides a unique contribution to contemporary globalization debates by providing an accessible survey of the growth and role of multinational enterprises in the world economy over the last two hundred years. Les mer
Many of the issues of the global economy have been encountered in the past. This book shows how entrepreneurs and managers met the political, ethical, cultural and organizational challenges of operating across national borders at different times and in different environments. The role of multinationals is placed within their wider political and economic context. There are chapters on the impact of multinationals, and on relations with governments.
The focus on the shifting roles of firms and industries over time rather than abstract trade and capital flows provides compelling evidence on the diversity and discontinuities of the globalization process. The book explains the history of multinationals across a wide spectrum of manufacturing, service and natural resource industries from an international perspective, which ranges widely across different countries. It provides an essential historical framework for understanding global business.
An accessible survey of the history of international business worldwide, this book will be key reading for students taking courses in International Business, Business History, Multinationals, and Entrepreneurship; and of interest to academics and researchers working in these areas.
Detaljer
- Forlag
- Oxford University Press
- Innbinding
- Innbundet
- Språk
- Engelsk
- ISBN
- 9780199272099
- Utgivelsesår
- 2004
- Format
- 25 x 20 cm
Om forfatteren
the European Business History Association and the Business History Conference of the United States, is co-editor of the journal Business History Review, and editor of the forthcoming Oxford Handbook of Business History.
Anmeldelser
«Jones's book is very useful, both as an introduction to the business scholarship on multinationals and as a very accessible text...I would declare it a great success.»
Journal of World History
«It is clear that this is a valuable, student-friendly book at a number of levels... All in all, well worth the asking price.»
Bernard J Foley, Economic History Review
«The book's strengths...are manifold...Multinaltionals provides evidence of scholarship that is bright, confident, coherent, and up to date.»