Multinational Enterprise and Transnational Regions
Subtitle: a Transnational Business History of Energy Transition in the Rhine Region, 1945-1973
Edition: First edition.
Series: Routledge International Studies in Business History
Publisher: Taylor and Francis
Published: 2018
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 240
ISBN-13: 9781315455976
Subjects: Business enterprises; History; International business enterprises; Economic conditions; Economic history
Description: "Multinational Enterprise and Transnational Regions offers an innovative approach to the study of the history of transnational economic regions. The Rhine valley is such a region comprising the cities and areas along the Rhine river and its tributaries. The transition from coal to oil that unfolded between 1945 and 1973 rapidly transformed the region, shattering some of the old river-based connections and creating new ones with the introduction of large-scale cross-border oil pipelines. Multinational enterprises shaped these new regional connections but divergent national government responses gave rise to differentiated development in different parts of the Rhine valley.?Multinational Enterprise and Transnational Regions argues that processes of regional change should be understood from transnational interconnections rather than from local or national perspectives. This book uses a transnational business history methodology to tease out the region's transformation and to circumvent the national bias in public sources. It will be of relevance to academics and researchers with an interest in regional and transnational European history, international business, environmental history, and business history, as well as practitioners interested in the oil industry, energy and energy history, business history and international business, and associated disciplines."--Provided by publisher.
Table of contents: title: Chapter Introduction  -- Marten Boon; title: part I Regional Transformation --; title: Energy Transition in the Rhine Region --; title: chapter 1 The Post-War Reconstruction and the Rise of Oil, 1945-1951  -- Marten Boon; title: chapter 2 Oil Unbounded --; title: The Coal Crisis of 1957-1958  -- Marten Boon; title: chapter 3 The Growth of Chemical Clusters in the Rhine Region, 1960-1973  -- Marten Boon; title: part II Regional Connections --; title: From Rhine to Pipeline --; title: chapter 4 Pipelines --; title: The National Approach, 1955-1956  -- Marten Boon; title: chapter 5 The Trans-European Pipeline --; title: The Transnational Approach: 1956-1958  -- Marten Boon; title: chapter 6 Expanding Transnational Connections, 1959-1973  -- Marten Boon; title: chapter 7 Transnational Connections in the Rhine Region --; title: Evidence From Transport Flows  -- Marten Boon; title: chapter 8 Conclusion -- Marten Boon.