A History of Business Cartels

International cartels are powerful organizations that impact our everyday lives, although they are little known. This book presents fifteen historical case studies of international cartels which reveal that international cartels manipulated prices and shared markets over many decades, but that their real impact was far wider.

Auteur

Martin Shanahan is Professor of Economic and Business History at the University of South Australia and Elof Hansson Visiting Professor in International Business and Trade at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden. Susanna Fellman is Professor of Business History and the Torsten Söderberg and Ragnar Söderberg Chair in Business History at the School of Business, Economics and Law at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden.

Contenu

1. International Cartels in the Real World: Business, Politics and Diplomacy

Susanna Fellman and Martin Shanahan

International cartels and national industry policies

2. Multinationals, International Cartels and National Powers. The Case of the Plate Glass Industry in Interwar Italy

Marco Bertilorenzi

3. How Cartels Shaped Corporate Performance: The Case of Dutch Steel Industry in the Interwar Period

Bram Bouwens and Joost Dankers

4. Taming the Leviathans: How Norway Managed to Regulate the Strongest International Cartels and Trusts, 1900-1940

Pål Thonstad Sandvik and Espen Storli

5. International Cartels in the Political Origins of German Competition Policy, 1949-1973

Brian Shaev

International Cartels and the influence on market standards

6. ITT, LM Ericsson and Their Market-Sharing Cartel in Denmark and Norway in the 1930s

Harald Espeli

7. International Cartels and National Legislation: Cartels of the Electro-Technical and Machine-Building Industry in Hungary

Mária Hidvégi

National cartels' relation to international cartels and international business

8. The European Cement Oligopoly. A French Business Perspective from 1880 to today

Dominque Barjot

9. European and Swedish Cement Cartels, 1930s-1960s: Stronger Together

Malin Dahlström

10. Building international diplomacy. The European Timber Cartel in the 1930s

Elina Kuorelahti

11. The relationship between Spanish Cement, Sugar and Fertilizer Cartels and their European Counterparts under Franco

Ana Rosado-Cubero

12. Behind the 'Tartan Curtain': Cartelisation in the Scotch Whisky Industry, 1830-1960

Andrew Perchard and Niall G. MacKenzie

International Cartels, diplomacy and war

13. The Congo Cartel. Governing Raw Materials Chains and Socio-Economic Stability 1918-1950

Robrecht Declercq

14. The German-Dutch 'Cartel' Relationship: Between Law and Business Practice, 1896-1958

Eva Maria Roelevink

15. International Politics and Cartels: Swedish Forest Industry Cartels during the Nazi Regime

Birgit Karlsson

16. Dancing with the Sun and the Dragon: International Coal Cartels in East Asia, 1916-1937

Toshitaka Nagahiro and Yu Yamamoto

17. Lessons from history: insights from historical case studies

Martin Shanahan and Susanna Fellman