The East India Company: The first modern multinational?

Clegg, S

The East India Company: The first modern multinational?

Clegg, S

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Citation:: 2017, 49 pp. 43 - 67
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dc.contributor.author	Clegg, S https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6083-4283	en_US
dc.date.issued	2017-01-01	en_US
dc.identifier.citation	2017, 49 pp. 43 - 67	en_US
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10453/127827
dc.description.abstract	© 2017 by Emerald Publishing Limited. The East India Company can lay claim to being the world's first company whose operations involved systematic organization of multiple countries. It was a pioneer and innovator: It was one of the first companies to offer limited liability to its shareholders; it laid the foundations of the British empire; it spawned Company Man; it developed its own 'university'. It was a trader, merchant, mercenary, military force and civil administrator; a pioneer bureaucracy as well as being a lean operation. Using an analytic lens drawn from contemporary discussion on MNCs the article reviews the role of the East India Company over its life and draws parallels with contemporary MNCs.	en_US
dc.relation.isbasedon	10.1108/S0733-558X20160000049002	en_US
dc.subject.classification	Business & Management	en_US
dc.title	The East India Company: The first modern multinational?	en_US
dc.type	Chapter
utslib.citation.volume	49	en_US
utslib.for	1503 Business and Management	en_US
utslib.for	1608 Sociology	en_US
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pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney
pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney/Faculty of Business
pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney/Faculty of Business/Management Discipline
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© 2017 by Emerald Publishing Limited. The East India Company can lay claim to being the world's first company whose operations involved systematic organization of multiple countries. It was a pioneer and innovator: It was one of the first companies to offer limited liability to its shareholders; it laid the foundations of the British empire; it spawned Company Man; it developed its own 'university'. It was a trader, merchant, mercenary, military force and civil administrator; a pioneer bureaucracy as well as being a lean operation. Using an analytic lens drawn from contemporary discussion on MNCs the article reviews the role of the East India Company over its life and draws parallels with contemporary MNCs.

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