European Business, Dictatorship, and Political Risk, 1920-1945

Download or read book European Business, Dictatorship, and Political Risk, 1920-1945 written by Christopher Kobrak and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "For much of the twentieth century, the prevalence of dictatorial regimes has left business, especially multinational firms, with a series of complex and for the most part unwelcome choices. This volume, which includes essays by noted American and European scholars such as Mira Wilkins, Gerald D. Feldman, Peter Hayes, and Wilfried Feldenkirchen, not only sets business activity in its political and social context; it also describes some of the strategic and tactical responses of firms investing from or into Europe to a myriad of opportunities and risks posed by host or home country authoritarian governments during the interwar period. Although principally a work of history, it puts into perspective some commercial dilemmas with which practitioners and business theorists must still unfortunately grapple." -- rear cover.