Boon Multinational Enterprise and Transnational Regions

A Transnational Business History of Energy Transition in the Rhine Region, 1945-1973
Erscheinungsjahr 2018
ISBN: 978-1-315-45596-9
Verlag: Taylor & Francis
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 250 Seiten

Reihe: Routledge International Studies in Business History

Multinational Enterprise and Transnational Regions offers an innovative transnational approach to the study of the history of economic regions. The historiography of the economic development of the Rhine region, a transnational economic region loosely comprising the cities and areas in the Rhine basin, has traditionally focused on the local and national histories of its constituent parts. This book argues that processes of change in the composite parts of the region should be understood from their transnational interconnections, and specifically studies the transition from coal to oil of the economies in the Rhine basin, a transformation that started with the end of the Second World War and was abruptly halted by the 1973 oil crisis.

Multinational Enterprise and Transnational Regions proposes transnational business history as a fruitful lens to study the otherwise fluid and hard to grasp concept of the transnational economic region and an effective method to circumvent the national bias in most sources and statistics. It will be of relevance to academics and researchers with an interest in regional and transnational history, international business, environmental history, and business history, as well as practitioners interested in the oil industry, energy and energy history, business history and international business, and associated disciplines.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Boon, Marten

Fachgebiete

• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Internationale Wirtschaft
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Umweltökonomie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Part 1: Regional Transformation: The Transition from Coal to Oil

1. The Post-war Reconstruction of Europe and the Rise of Oil

2. Oil Unbounded: The Coal Crisis of 1957-8

3. The Growth of Chemical Clusters in the Rhine Region, 1960-73

Part 2: Regional Connections: The Integration of the Rhine Region

4. Pipelines: the National Approach, 1955-56

5. The Trans-European Pipeline: The Transnational Approach, 1956-58

6. Expanding Transnational Connections, 1959-1973

7. Transnational Integration in the Rhine Region: Evidence from Transport Flows

Über Autor(innen)

Marten Boon is Postdoctoral Fellow in the Institute for Historical Studies at Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway.