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The Corporation That Changed the World
The English East India Company was the mother of the modern multinational. Its trading empire encircled the globe, importing Asian luxuries such as spices, textiles and teas. But it also conquered much of India with its private army and broke open China's markets with opium. The Company’s practices shocked its contemporaries and still reverberate today. The Corporation That Changed the World is the first book to reveal the Company’s enduring legacy as a corporation. This expanded edition explores how the four forces of scale, technology, finance and regulation drove its spectacular rise and fall. For decades, the Company was simply too big to fail, and stock market bubbles, famines, drug-running and even duels between rival executives are to be found in this new account. For Robins, the Company’s story provides vital lessons on both the role of corporations in world history and the steps required to make global business accountable today.
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Foreign Multinationals and the British Economy
This book, first published in 1988, examines the impact of multinational companies on the British economy and the British government’s policy responses. It assesses the effects of multinationals both on the national economy and on different regions and evaluates the benefits and problems brought by overseas companies. It looks at how government has attempted to entice multinationals to invest, and the UK government’s success in these attraction efforts as compared with other countries. Regulatory aspects of policy are also reviewed and evaluated, and consideration is given to possible new policy approaches. This title will be of interest to students of business studies.
1. Introduction: The Issues 2. Global Environment of International Business and the United Kingdom Position 3. Impact of Inward Direct Investment on the United Kingdom 4. Foreign Multinationals in the UK Assisted Areas 5. Multinational Strategies and Operating Characteristics 6. The UK Policy Response 7. Conclusions and Future Directions; Bibliography; Index
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International Commercial Tax
Inspired by a postgraduate course the authors have jointly taught at the University of Cambridge since 2001, Peter Harris and David Oliver use their divergent backgrounds (academia and tax practice) to build a conceptual framework that not only makes the tax treatment of complex commercial transactions understandable and accessible, but also challenges the current orthodoxy of international tax norms. Designed specifically for postgraduate students and junior practitioners, it challenges the reader to think about tax issues conceptually and holistically, while illustrating the structure with practical examples. Senior tax practitioners and academics will also find it useful as a means of refreshing their understanding of the basics and the conceptual framework will challenge them to think more deeply about tax issues.
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La anarquía
En 1765, la Compañía de las Indias Orientales derrocó al joven emperador mogol y puso en su lugar un gobierno controlado por mercaderes ingleses que extorsionaba impuestos merced a su ejército privado. Fue este el momento que señaló la transformación de la Compañía de las Indias Orientales en algo muy distinto a una empresa: una corporación internacional pasó a ser un agresivo poder colonial. Durante el siguiente medio siglo, la Compañía continuó extendiendo su poder hasta que prácticamente toda la India al sur de Delhi era controlada desde un despacho londinense.
William Dalrymple, autor del aclamado El retorno de un rey, cuenta en La anarquía. La Compañía de las Indias orientales y el expolio de la India cómo el Imperio mogol, que había dominado el comercio y la manufactura mundiales, y que poseía recursos casi ilimitados, se derrumbó y fue reemplazado por una corporación multinacional enclavada a miles de kilómetros al otro lado del mundo.
Una corporación que respondía a unos accionistas que jamás habían estado en la India y que no tenían la menor idea del país cuya riqueza les reportaba jugosos dividendos. A partir de fuentes inéditas, Dalrymple narra la historia de la Compañía de las Indias Orientales como nunca se ha hecho: una historia sobre los devastadores resultados que puede tener el abuso de poder por parte de una gran corporación, y que resuena amenazadoramente familiar en nuestro siglo XXI de todopoderosas empresas transnacionales.
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Takeovers in English and German Law
This book arises out of the second Anglo-German Law Conference in Oxford,held under the auspices of the Oxford Law Faculty and with the support of two leading law firms. The law regarding takeovers has recently taken on a new dimension in Europe, and nowhere more so than in England and Germany. These two jurisdictions have had to consider a number of issues, including the ramifications of the Vodafone/Mannesmann takeover, the proposed Takeover Act in Germany, and the impact of the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000 in England. This collection examines the law regarding takeovers in England and Germany, taking account of these new developments, among others. It also deals specifically with the issues arising from cross-border mergers between the two jurisdictions. This collection will be indispensable to practising lawyers and in-house counsel whose practice touches on Anglo-German business affairs. It will also be of real interest to legal academics in this field.
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Foreign Multinationals and the British Economy
Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Original Title Page -- Original Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of Tables -- List of Figures -- 1. Introduction: The Issues -- The state of Britain and British competitiveness -- Multinationals: the global issues -- Concluding remarks -- Notes -- 2. Global Environment of International Business and the United Kingdom Position -- Multinationals and the international business position -- International business and the United Kingdom -- Inward direct investment into the UK and the competitive position -- Concluding remarks -- Notes -- 3. Impact of Inward Direct Investment on the United Kingdom -- Introduction -- Economic impact of inward direct investment -- Technology transfer and innovation -- Market structure -- Trade and balance of payments -- Employment and labour effects -- Linkage and spillover effects -- Concluding remarks -- Notes -- 4. Foreign Multinationals in the UK Assisted Areas -- Regional policy in the UK -- Growth and performance of foreign-owned manufacturing industry in the assisted areas -- The electronics industry in the assisted areas -- Concluding remarks -- Notes -- 5. Multinational Strategies and Operating Characteristics -- Some ideas on international and subsidiary strategies -- Subsidiary strategies at the British and Continental European level -- Profile of MNE strategies in the 1980s and implications for the UK -- Case examples -- Concluding remarks -- Notes -- 6. The UK Policy Response -- Introductory issues -- Attraction and regulation of inward investment in the UK -- EEC policy and inward investment in the UK -- OECD policy and inward investment in the UK -- Concluding remarks -- Notes -- 7. Conclusions and Future Directions -- The UK as host to international investment -- Impact of inward investment at national and regional levels
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