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European Business, Dictatorship, and Political Risk, 1920-1945 / ed. by Christopher Kobrak, Per H. Hansen.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Business History and Political Economy ; 1Publisher: New York ; Oxford : Berghahn Books, [2004]Copyright date: 2004Description: 1 online resource (300 p.)Content type:
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  • 9781789204124
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 330.94/051 22
LOC classification:
  • HD3616.E82 E94 2004
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  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Dedication -- Contents -- Preface -- PART I Introductory Essays -- 1. Business, Political Risk, and Historians in the Twentieth Century -- 2. Multinationals and Dictatorship: Europe in the 1930s and early 1940s -- PART II Authoritarian Regimes as Competitive Advantage and Liability -- 3. Competition and Collaboration among the Axis Multinational Insurers: Munich Re, Generali, and Riunione Adriatica, 1933–1943 -- 4. Market Assessment and Domestic Political Risk: The Case of Degussa and Carbon Black in Nazi Germany, 1933–1939 -- PART III The Perception and Management of Political Risk in Dictatorial Business Environments: Outward Investment and Capital Flight -- 5. German Pharmaceutical Companies in South America: The Case of Schering AG in Argentina -- 6. Multinational Jewish Businesses and the Transfer of Capital Abroad in the Face of “Aryanization,” 1933–1939 -- 7. Siemens in Eastern Europe: From the End of World War I to the End of World War II -- PART IV The Problem of Foreignness -- 8. Between Parent and “Child,” IBM and Its German Subsidiary, 1910–1945 -- 9. The Great Northern Telegraph Company and Dictatorship -- 10. Managing Risk in the Third Reich: British Business with Germany in the 1930s -- 11. Under Threat of Nazi Occupation: The Fate of Multinationals in the Czech Lands, 1938–1945 -- 12. Industrial Capitalism and Political Constraints: the Bureaucratization of Economic Life during the Fascist Regime -- Notes on Contributors -- Bibliography -- Index
Summary: For 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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Frontmatter -- Dedication -- Contents -- Preface -- PART I Introductory Essays -- 1. Business, Political Risk, and Historians in the Twentieth Century -- 2. Multinationals and Dictatorship: Europe in the 1930s and early 1940s -- PART II Authoritarian Regimes as Competitive Advantage and Liability -- 3. Competition and Collaboration among the Axis Multinational Insurers: Munich Re, Generali, and Riunione Adriatica, 1933–1943 -- 4. Market Assessment and Domestic Political Risk: The Case of Degussa and Carbon Black in Nazi Germany, 1933–1939 -- PART III The Perception and Management of Political Risk in Dictatorial Business Environments: Outward Investment and Capital Flight -- 5. German Pharmaceutical Companies in South America: The Case of Schering AG in Argentina -- 6. Multinational Jewish Businesses and the Transfer of Capital Abroad in the Face of “Aryanization,” 1933–1939 -- 7. Siemens in Eastern Europe: From the End of World War I to the End of World War II -- PART IV The Problem of Foreignness -- 8. Between Parent and “Child,” IBM and Its German Subsidiary, 1910–1945 -- 9. The Great Northern Telegraph Company and Dictatorship -- 10. Managing Risk in the Third Reich: British Business with Germany in the 1930s -- 11. Under Threat of Nazi Occupation: The Fate of Multinationals in the Czech Lands, 1938–1945 -- 12. Industrial Capitalism and Political Constraints: the Bureaucratization of Economic Life during the Fascist Regime -- Notes on Contributors -- Bibliography -- Index

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For 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.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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