This book discusses challenges that arise for multinational companies from not having a single nationality and being exposed to a variety of simultaneous country-specific, legally, and culturally constructed nationalities at home and abroad. Brexit, America First campaigns, Russias war against Ukraine, or the ever-tenser relationship between China and the US have led to raising concerns about foreign direct investments. Multinational companies are pressured to withdraw from countries and reorganise global value chains. The long-held confidence that nationality does not matter for multinational companies in the globalised economy has dwindled. Today, companies doing business abroad are exposed to implications of their nationality because governments and customers react upon the nationality of a firm or a product as they did in the 20th century.
The chapters in this book address many International Business domains, covering political risk, liability of foreignness, cultural distance, headquarters change, and tax planning. They use different methodological approaches to analyse European and US-based MNEs in Europe, Africa, and South-East Asia from 1900 to 1980. The book argues that nationality is not a ghost from the past in international business, it is a topic that requires substantial consideration.
The chapters in this book were originally published in the journal Business History.
This book discusses challenges that arise for multinational companies from not having a single nationality and being exposed to a variety of simultaneous country-specific, legally, and culturally constructed nationalities at home and abroad. The chapters were originally published in the journal Business History.
1. Nationality in Times of Economic and Political Turbulences
2.
International business, multinational enterprises and nationality of the
company: a constructive review of literature
3. The paradox of nationality:
Foreign investment in Portuguese Africa (18901974)
4. Changing corporate
domicile: The case of the Rhodesian Selection Trust companies
5. Corporate
structural change for tax avoidance: British multinational enterprises and
international double taxation between the First and Second World Wars
6.
National conflicts in a multinational: The case of the Dutch-German
AKU/VGF/Akzo, 1920s to 1970s
7. Filling a colonial void? German business
strategies and development assistance in India, 19471974
8. American
Management vs Swiss Labour Peace. The closure of the Swiss Firestone
factory in 1978
9. The defence of cosmopolitan capitalism by Sir Charles
Addis, 1914-1919: A microhistorical study of a classical liberal banker in
wartime
Boris Gehlen is Professor of Business History at Stuttgart University, Germany. His areas of interest are business and financial history, history of entrepreneurship, regulation and corporate governance.
Christian Marx is Researcher at Leibniz Institute for Contemporary History, Germany. His areas of interest are business history, corporate networks, social and economic history, financial history, and the European history of the 19th and 20th centuries.
Alfred Reckendrees is Associate Professor for Business History at the Copenhagen Business School, Centre for Business History, Denmark. His areas of interest include entrepreneurship, corporate governance, organizational change, economic and institutional change in the 19th and 20th centuries across Europe, and the evolution and change of social orders.
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