Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Dedication v
3. Contents vii
4. Preface ix
5. PART I Introductory Essays
6. 1. Business, Political Risk, and Historians in the Twentieth Century 1
7. 2. Multinationals and Dictatorship: Europe in the 1930s and early 1940s 22
8. PART II Authoritarian Regimes as Competitive Advantage and Liability
9. 3. Competition and Collaboration among the Axis Multinational Insurers: Munich Re, Generali, and Riunione Adriatica, 1933–1943 39
10. 4. Market Assessment and Domestic Political Risk: The Case of Degussa and Carbon Black in Nazi Germany, 1933–1939 62
11. PART III The Perception and Management of Political Risk in Dictatorial Business Environments: Outward Investment and Capital Flight
12. 5. German Pharmaceutical Companies in South America: The Case of Schering AG in Argentina 79
13. 6. Multinational Jewish Businesses and the Transfer of Capital Abroad in the Face of “Aryanization,” 1933–1939 103
14. 7. Siemens in Eastern Europe: From the End of World War I to the End of World War II 122
15. PART IV The Problem of Foreignness
16. 8. Between Parent and “Child,” IBM and Its German Subsidiary, 1910–1945 147
17. 9. The Great Northern Telegraph Company and Dictatorship 174
18. 10. Managing Risk in the Third Reich: British Business with Germany in the 1930s 194
19. 11. Under Threat of Nazi Occupation: The Fate of Multinationals in the Czech Lands, 1938–1945 206
20. 12. Industrial Capitalism and Political Constraints: the Bureaucratization of Economic Life during the Fascist Regime 223
21. Notes on Contributors 235
22. Bibliography 239
23. Index 249