Concepts -- Multinationals and globalization -- Natural resources -- Manufacturing -- Services -- Crossing borders -- Managing multinationals -- Public policy -- Multinationals and home economies -- Engines of growth? -- Conclusions
Summary
"This book provides an essential historical framework for understanding global business. The author shows how entrepreneurs built a global economy in the nineteenth century by creating firms that pursued resources and markets across borders. It demonstrates how firms shifted strategies as the first global economy disintegrated in the political and economic chaos between the two world wars, and how they have driven the creation of the contemporary global economy." "By providing 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, and Entrepreneurship; and of interest to academics and researchers working in these areas."--BOOK JACKET
