Multinationals, Subsidiaries and National Business Systems

Preface; Chapter 1 Aims and Approaches; Chapter 2 The Industrial Background; Chapter 3 The Rise and Fall of the Kristiansand Nickel Company, 1910-24; Chapter 4 Falconbridge, The Kristiansand Plant and the Norwegian Business System, 1929-39; Chapter 5 Vertical Integration and Trade Politics: Falconbridge's Success on World Markets in the 1930s; Chapter 6 Managerial Practices and Transatlantic Tension; Chapter 7 Occupied and Isolated, 1940-5; Chapter 8 Restoring and Promoting the Subsidiary's Mandate: The Post-War Expansion; Chapter 9 Multinational Enterprise and Norwegian Social Democracy; Chapter 10 A Creative Subsidiary? Developing Kristiansand's Knowledge Resources; Chapter 11 The Weakening of Falconbridge and the Strengthening of the Kristiansand Subsidiary; Chapter 12 Multinational Enterprise, Host Society and Environmental Challenges; Chapter 13 Creating A Competitive Subsidiary; Chapter 14 Conclusions: The Making of a Subsidiary;