“Giants of an Earlier Capitalism”: The Chartered Trading Companies as Modern Multinationals
- 1 January 1988
- journal article
- Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in Business History Review
- Vol. 62 (3) , 398-419
- https://doi.org/10.2307/3115542
Abstract
Much has been written about late-nineteenth-century multinationals and their relationship to the transnational firms of the present, but both historians and economists have largely discounted the relevance of the earlier chartered trading companies to this discussion. In an article emphasizing transaction cost analysis and the theory of the firm, Professors Carlos and Nicholas argue that the trading companies did meet the criteria of the modern MNE—the growth of a managerial hierarchy necessitated by a large volume of transactions and of systems to control those managers over space and time.Keywords
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