… This study of British trading companies over the last two centuries reflects my long-standing
interests in the historical evolution of international business, and especially in the service …

… are considered modern, yet all other trading companies are … the evolution of British
multinational trading companies and in so … of multinationals, British companies which engage in …

… In the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, as will be … chapters, trading companies were
very significant in world trade in … This originated as a firm of British merchants trading mainly …

… Jones (ed.), The Multinational Traders (London, 1998). In Merchants to Multinationals we
get the … and significance of British international mercantile enterprise in the nineteenth and …

… enterprises. The first three of the 12 chapters of this book survey the nineteenth century, but
mainly as a backcloth to the twentieth century, which is the real focus of the work. The early …

… Merchants to Multinationals is essentially an institutional study of Britain's private sector
trading companies from their origins in the late eighteenth century, through their heyday during …

… a few trading companies by the twentieth century completed … ing multinationals when they
replaced merchant houses and … than most nineteenth-century British multinationals and than …

… trading, brokering, distribution, knowledge, and managerial culture. While its focus is on British
trading firms… European chartered trading firms dated to the sixteenth century. When these …

… trading companies disappeared during the first half of the nineteenth century, multinational
trading companies … economy formerly performed by the trading companies. A diverse group of …

… , a period characterized by an important British hegemony in world … lished on multinational
trading companies covers the second half of the nineteenth century and the twentieth century.…