Multinational Enterprise, Political Risk and Organisational Change : From Total War to Cold War (Hardcover)

Part I: Geopolitical Risks and Organizational Challenges

1. Swiss and (Anglo)-Dutch multinationals and organizational change in the era of Total War

Takafumi Kurosawa and Ben Wubs

2. Municipalisation, war, tax and nationalisation:

Imperial Continental Gas Association in an era of turmoil, 1824-1987

Ryo Izawa

3. Go west: C&A’s motives and strategies for expansion from Europe into the western hemisphere, 1945-1962

Mark Spoerer

4. Foreign oil majors in Japan and the Second World War

Takeo Kikkawa

Part II: Total War and Long-Lasting Impact

5. Mutual attraction: Siemens activities in Italy 1855-1968

Luciano Segreto

6. Reinventing the Rio Tinto Company: Spain, political risk and corporate strategy before and after the Second World War

Neil Forbes

7. War and industry dynamics: The case of the industrial gases industry after 1940

Ray Stokes and Ralf Banken

Part III:　 Cold War and Corporate Strategies

8. The afterlife of a multinational enterprise: the case of Siemens’ subsidiary in Hungary after the Second World War

Judit Klement

9. International business and the Cold War. The case of the Trans-European Pipeline, 1956-1960

Marten Boon

10. From Cold War to the Washington Consensus: evolution of the multinational corporations’ strategies in Chile

Marcelo Bucheli