The Free-standing company in the world economy, 1830-1996 / edited by Mira Wilkins and Harm Schrèoter.

Includes rewritten papers from a session on free-standing companies held at the 11th International Economic History Congress, in Milan, Italy, Sept. 1994.

Includes bibliographical references (pages [440]-461) and index.

The free-standing company revisited / Mira Wilkins -- Transcation-cost theory and the free-standing firm / Jean-Franðcois Hennart -- An economic theory of the free-standing company / Mark Casson -- The free-standing company, in theory and practice / T.A.B. Corley -- Free-standing companies in India, 1883-1912 / Peter Hertner -- British free-standing companies in Tsarist Russia / Natalia Gurushina -- British free-standing companies and investment groups in India and the Far East / Stanley Chapman -- British free-standing companies on the West Coast of South America / Rory Miller -- British free-standing companies in Mexico, 1884-1911 / Reinhard Liehr and Mariano E. Torres Bautista -- A French free-standing company in Brazil's sugar industry : a case study of the Sociâetâe de Sucreries Bresiliennes, 1907-1922 / Tamâas Szmrecsâanyi -- Dutch free-standing companies, 1870-1940 / Ben P.A. Gales and Keetie E. Sluyterman -- Continental European free-standing companies : the case of Belgium, Germany, and Switzerland / Harm Schrèoter -- British overseas banks as free-standing companies, 1830-1996 / Geoffrey Jones -- US foreign direct investment in electric utilities in the 1920s / William J. Hausman and John L. Neufeld -- The Montreal Engineering Company and international power : overcoming the limitations of the free-standing utility / Gregory P. Marchildon -- The significance of the concept and a future agenda / Mira Wilkins.