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Business in Risk: Jardine Matheson and the Hong Kong Trading Industry »

Authors: Carol M. Connell
ISBN-13: 9780275980351, ISBN-10: 0275980359
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Greenwood Publishing Group, Incorporated
Date Published: April 2004
Edition: (Non-applicable)

Author Biography: Carol M. Connell

CAROL MATHESON CONNELL is Assistant Professor of Business and Management, Brooklyn College, the City University of New York. She is a descendant of James Matheson, a co-founder of Jardine Matheson & Company.

Book Synopsis

Explores the growth by acquisition and divestiture of the long-lived and controversial Hong Kong trading firm Jardine Matheson.

1	Introduction : the Hong Kong trading industry in economic history	1
2	Managing risk : the China trade to 1885	21
3	Between the wars : diminished globalization, government protectionism and trading company response	41
4	Jardine Matheson's blind ambition : opportunity and risk, 1961-2002	59
5	Industrial logic : acquisition and divestiture stratedy	85
6	Leveraging relationships and building capability	123
7	Change and learning in the Hong Kong trading industry	141
8	A Penrosean theory of the Hong Kong trading company	157