A Business in Risk
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A Business in Risk

Jardine Matheson and the Hong Kong Trading Industry

  1. 200 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

A Business in Risk

Jardine Matheson and the Hong Kong Trading Industry

About this book

Jardine Matheson & Company is perhaps best known through James Clavell's Taipan. The firm played an important role in the founding of Hong Kong, but its growth in the 20th century, through acquisition and divestiture, has never been adequately explored until now. This is not only the first study of Jardine Matheson to systematically uncover the industrial logic of its growth strategy; it is also among the first studies of the Hong Kong trading industry as an adaptive ecosystem based on trade, equity, and debt relationships that reduced business risk. Understanding the experience of Jardine Matheson will prove valuable to anyone who is eager to learn the lessons of adaptation and survival that marked not only the first period of globalization, but its current incarnation as well.

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Information

Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing
Year
2004
eBook ISBN
9780313072710
Edition
0
Topic
Business
Subtopic
Business General
Index
Business

Table of contents

  1. 1 Introduction: The Hong Kong Trading Industry in Economic History
  2. 2. Managing Risk: The China Trade to 1885
  3. 3. Between the Wars: Diminished Globalization, Government Protectionism, and Trading Company Response
  4. 4. Jardine Matheson’s Blind Ambition: Opportunity and Risk, 1961–2002
  5. 5. Industrial Logic: Acquisition and Divestiture Strategy
  6. 6. Leveraging Relationships and Building Capability
  7. 7. Change and Learning in the Hong Kong Trading Industry
  8. 8. A Penrosean Theory of the Hong Kong Trading Company
  9. Selected Bibliography
  10. Index