'British free standing companies and investment groups in India and the Far East' in M Wilkins & H Schroter (eds), The Free Standing Company in the World Economy, 1830-1996
Details:
- Author(s) Chapman, Stanley D
- Publication type Chapter
- Year published 1998
- Pages pp202-17
- Publisher Oxford University Press
- Place Published Oxford
Topics:
- Name Free standing cos
- Name General trading cos
Countries:
- India
Library:
- Name British Library
- City London
- County Greater London
- Country England
- Postcode NW1 2DB
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Groups:
Notes:
Deals with the concept of merchant investment groups relative to free standing companies and explains their continuing supremacy in India and the Far East as vehicles for direct British investment. Has sections: 'supremacy of agency house system'; 'methods of raising capital'; 'tea gardens and rubber plantations'