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Title Multinationals, subsidiaries and national business systems : the nickel industry and Falconbridge Nikkelverk / by Pål Thonstad Sandvik.

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 GIP Main  338.887 S221M 2012    AVAILABLE
Descript. viii, 199 pages ; 24 cm.
Series Studies in business history ; no. 2
Studies in business history (Pickering & Chatto) ; no. 2.
Bibliog. Includes bibliographical references (page 179-192) and index.
Contents 1.Aims and Approaches -- 2.The Industrial Background -- 3.The Rise and Fall of the Kristiansand Nickel Company, 1910-24 -- 4.Falconbridge, the Kristiansand Plant and the Norwegian Business System, 1929-39 -- 5.Vertical Integration and Trade Politics: Falconbridge's Success on World Markets in the 1930s -- 6.Managerial Practices and Transatlantic Tension -- 7.Occupied and Isolated, 1940-5 -- 8.Restoring and Promoting the Subsidiary's Mandate: The Post-War Expansion -- 9.Multinational Enterprise and Norwegian Social Democracy -- 10.A Creative Subsidiary? Developing Kristiansand's Knowledge Resources -- 11.The Weakening of Falconbridge and the Strengthening of the Kristiansand Subsidiary -- 12.Multinational Enterprise, Host Society and Environmental Challenges -- 13.Creating a Competitive Subsidiary -- 14.Conclusions: The Making of a Subsidiary.
Subject Falconbridge Nickel Mines Limited -- History -- 20th century.
Nickel industry -- Norway -- Kristiansand -- History -- 20th century.
International business enterprises -- Norway -- Kristiansand -- History -- 20th century.
Subsidiary corporations -- Norway -- Kristiansand -- History -- 20th century.
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