Business in Risk: Jardine Matheson and the Hong Kong Trading Industry
Jardine Matheson & Company is perhaps best known through James Clavell's Taipan. The firm played an important role in the founding of Hong Kong, but its growth in the 20th century, through acquisition and divestiture, has never been adequately explored until now. This is not only the first study of Jardine Matheson to systematically uncover the industrial logic of its growth strategy; it is also among the first studies of the Hong Kong trading industry as an adaptive ecosystem based on...
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Explores the growth by acquisition and divestiture of the long-lived and controversial Hong Kong trading firm Jardine Matheson.
1Introduction : the Hong Kong trading industry in economic history12Managing risk : the China trade to 1885213Between the wars : diminished globalization, government protectionism and trading company response414Jardine Matheson's blind ambition : opportunity and risk, 1961-2002595Industrial logic : acquisition and divestiture stratedy856Leveraging relationships and building capability1237Change and learning in the Hong Kong trading industry1418A Penrosean theory of the Hong Kong trading company157
