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"Merchants to Multinationals provides the first study of the evolution of British-owned international trading companies worldwide from the late eighteenth century through to the start of the twenty-first century. Geoffrey Jones analyses the complex multinational business groups which emerged, and considers the ways in which the trading companies were forced to 're-invent' themselves in order to compete in evolving political and business environments. Based on many confidential business records, this book provides a new dimension to the literature on international business. - ;Merchants to Multinationals examines the evolution of multinational trading companies from the eighteenth century to the present day. During the Industrial Revolution, British merchants established overseas branches which became major trade intermediaries and subsequently engaged in foreign direct investment. Complex multinational business groups emerged controlling large investments in natural resources, processing, and services in Asia, Latin America, and Africa. While theories of the firm predict the demise over time of merchant firms, this book identifies the continued resilience of British trading companies despite the changing political and business environments of the twentieth century. Like Japanese trading companies, they 're-invented' themselves in successive generations. The competences of the trading companies resided in their information-gathering, relationship-building, human resource, and corporate governance systems. This book provides a new dimension to the literature on international business through the focus on multinational service firms and its evolutionary approach based on confidential business records."
"The evolution of multinational trading companies from the 18th century to the end of the 1990s is examined in this book. British merchants established branches which became major trade intermediaries and subsequently engaged in foreign investment."
"This book examines the evolution of multinational trading companies from the eighteenth century to the present day. During the Industrial Revolution, British merchants established overseas branches which became major trade intermediaries and subsequently engaged in foreign direct investment. Complex multinational business groups emerged controlling large investments in natural resources, processing, and services in Asia, Latin America, and Africa."@en

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"Merchants to multinationals : British trading companies in the 19th and 20th centuries"
"Merchants to multinationals : british trading companies in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries"
"Merchants to multinationals : British trading companies in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries"
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