The Evolution of Giant Firms in Britain: A Study of the Growth of Concentration in Manufacturing Industry in Britain 1909-70
The Evolution of Giant Firms in Britain: A Study of the Growth of Concentration in Manufacturing Industry in Britain 1909-70
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英国大企业的演变：1909-70 年英国制造业集中度增长研究
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10.1017/s0022050700095164
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1977
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S. Prais
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S. Prais
被认为是1）为什么英国在加拿大的直接投资如此有限，而且比美国的扩张要少得多，2）为什么它总体上不是很有利可图。人们可能会认为，前者是后者的后果，但这种相互关系并没有得到太多的探讨。帕特森发现英国投资者很少参与加拿大中部的城市和工业增长;他们错过了当时的行动。他认为，英国的制造业和英国的技术可能最适合那些英国具有比较优势的活动，而不是在北美条件下有利可图。对加拿大直接投资感兴趣的英国投资者转向了采矿和土地投机等行业，在这些行业中，对当地条件的全面了解尤为重要。英国保留了太多的权力，无法在这些冒险的土地上做得很好。至于英国在加拿大的直接投资是否比其他地方的类似投资更不成功，这必须留给英国海外投资专家来判断。帕特森提供了一些精心组装和相当诱人的证据啃。
taken to be 1) why British direct investment in Canada was so limited and expanded so much less than American and, 2) why it was not on the whole very profitable. One might think that the former would have been a consequence of the latter but that interrelationship is not much explored. Paterson finds British investors little involved in the urban, industrial growth of central Canada; they were missing where the action was at the time. He suggests that British manufacturing and British technology may have been best suited to those activities in which Britain had a comparative advantage and not profitably pursued under North American conditions. British investors who were interested in direct investment in Canada turned instead to lines like mining and land speculation where thorough knowledge of local conditions was especially important. Too much authority was retained in Britain to do well in those lands of ventures. It must be left to the specialists on British overseas investment to pass judgment on whether the direct investment in Canada was any less successful than comparable ventures elsewhere. Paterson offers some carefully assembled and quite tantalizing evidence to gnaw on.