'Babcock & Wilcox Company. Strategic alliance, technology development and enterprise control, circa 1860-1900' in K Bruland & P O'Brien (eds), From Family Firms to Corporate Capitalism. Essays in business and industrial history in honour of Peter Mathias
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- Author(s) Bruland, Kristine
- Publication type Chapter
- Year published 1998
- Pages pp219-46
- Publisher Clarendon Press
- Place Published Oxford
Topics:
- Name Corporate governance
- Name Multinational cos exc free standing & general trading cos
- Name Transfer of technology, processes, management techniques, etc
- Name Joint ventures & other co-operative modes
- Name Management structures
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- Name British Library
- City London
- County Greater London
- Country England
- Postcode NW1 2DB
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Notes:
Uses as a case study the US business of Babcock & Wilcox to explore issues connected with the rise of international businesses, their control and management, the international diffusion of the new technologies they developed, and their strategic business alliances, notably with the Singer Manufacturing Co Ltd to cover production issues and with the hiving off of its Glasgow operations into an independent company. Has sections: 'The changing nature of technology diffusion'; 'Babock & Wilcox - the context'; 'Babcock & Wilcox - the technological foundations and early years'; 'The encounter with Singer'; 'The establishment of the Babcock & Wilcox Co'; 'Foreign expansion of the Babcock & Wilcox Co'; 'Conflicts and problems - the role of the Singer relationship'; 'Innovation and product development at Babcock & Wilcox'; 'Creation of a new company'; 'Agents and overseas offices'; 'Implications and issues'