International Business and the Development of British Electrical Manufacturing, 1886–1929 (2017)
British electrical manufacturing provides important insights into international business history and demonstrates the key role of cross-border networks and agreements in its emergence. This article analyzes the factors that shaped phases in the industry’s development and international operations. In doing so, the article reappraises electrical manufacturing’s early decades in Britain; it shows how a changing political land- scape transformed the strategies and ownership of firms, and reevaluates the industry’s restructuring during World War I and its immediate aftermath. Further, the article questions accounts of British electrical manufacturing’s failure in the 1920s and discusses the return to strategies of cross-border networks and agreements. Finally, it considers the lessons of British electrical manufacturing’s emergence and subsequent consolidation, weighing the influences of firm-level, national, and international factors.
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