The location of early overseas multinationals in Britain, 1900-1939: patterns and determinants

Regional Studies

Volumn 32, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 489-501

  Scott, Peter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PORTSMOUTH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INDUSTRIAL HISTORY; INDUSTRIAL LOCATION; LOCATION DECISION; MULTINATIONAL ENTERPRISE;

UK;

EID: 0031686255     PISSN: 00343404     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00343409850119067     Document Type: Article

References (54)

1. ACTON TOWN COUNCIL (1939) Acton: Official Guide. Burrow, Cheltenham.
2. ARMSTRONG J. (1994) International confluences on the development of London business: the case of the Park Royal industrial estate between the Wars, unpublished paper.
3. BOARD OF TRADE (1933) Survey of industrial development in 1932, Board of Trade Journal, 29 June, pp iii-xv.
4. BOARD OF TRADE (1934-39) Survey of Industrial Devenopment. HMSO, London.
5. BOSTOCK F. and JONES G. (1994) Foreign multinationals in British manufacturing, 1850-1962, Bus. Hist. 36, 89-126.
6. BREDO W. (1960) Industrial Estates: Tools for industrialization. Free Press, Glencoe, CA.
7. Business Monitor (1995) PA1002, report on the Census of Production 1992, summary volume, Central Statistical Office, Newport.
8. BRITISH LIBRARY OF POLITICAL AND ECONOMIC SCIENCE ARCHIVE (1935) Political and economic planning papers, WG11, note of conversation between T. H. G. Stevens and Max Nicholson, 22 July, BLPESA, London.
9. CASSELL M. (1991) Long Lease! The Story of Slough Estates 1920-1991. Pencorp, London.
10. CHANDLER A. D. (1980) The growth of the transnational industrial firm in the United States and the United Kingdom: a comparative analysis, Econ. Hist. Rev 33, 396-410.
11. CHURCH R. (1986) The effects of American multinationals on the British motor industry: 1911-83, in TEICHOVA A., LEVY-LEBOYER M. and NUSSBAUM H. (Eds) Multinational Enterprise in Historical Perspective. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.
12. COLLIS C. and MOON D. (1994) Foreign direct investment in the UK regions: recent trends and policy issues, Reg. Studies 28, 843-8.
13. DUNNING J. H. (1958) American Investment in British Manufacturing Industry. Allen & Unwin, London.
14. HALL P. G. (1962) The Industries of London: Since 1861. Hutchinson, London.
15. HEIM C. E. (1984) Structural transformation and the demand for new labor in advanced economies: Interwar Britain, J. Econ. Hist. 44, 585-95.
16. HILL S. and MUNDAY M. (1992) The UK regional distribution of foreign direct investment: analysis and determinants, Reg. Studies 26, 535-44.
17. HOLFORD W. G. (1939) The location and design of trading estates, J. Tn. Plann. Inst. 25, 151-67.
18. HOLMES C. (1991) Immigrants and refugees in Britain, in MOSSE W. E. (Ed) Second Chance: Two Centuries of German-speaking Jews in the United Kingdom, pp. 11-30. Mohr, Tubingen.
19. HOOD N. and YOUNG S. (1979) The Economics of Multinational Enterprise. Longman, London.
20. HOUSE OF COMMONS (1932-33) Parliamentary Debates, vols. 266, 273, 278. HMSO, London.
21. JONES G. (1988) Foreign multinationals and British industry before 1945, Econ. Hist. Rev. 41, 429-53.
22. JONES G. (1990) The British government and foreign multinationals before 1970, in CHICK M. (Ed) Governments, Industries and Markets: Aspects of Government-Industry Relation in the UK, Japan, West Germany and the USA since 1945, pp. 194-214.
23. JONES G. (1996a) Multinational cross-investment between Britain and Switzerland 1914-1945, Discussion Papers in International Investment and Business Studies No. 219, Department of Economics, University of Reading.
24. JONES G. (1996b) The Evolution of International Business: An Introduction. Routledge, London.
25. JONES G. et al. (1993) Impact of Foreign Multinational Investment in Britain since 1850 (computer file). ESRC Data Archive, Colchester.
26. JONES G. and BOSTOCK F. (1996) US multinationals in British manufacturing before 1962, Bus. Hist. Rev. 70, 67-116.
27. LAW C. M. (1980) British Regional Development Since World War 1. David & Charles, Newton Abbot.
28. LEE C. H. (1981) Regional growth and structural change in Victorian Britain, Econ. Hist. Rev 34, 438-52.
29. Middlesex and Buckinghamshire Advertiser (1907) The development of Hayes, 16 February, p. 5.
30. MODERN RECORDS CENTRE (1937) Mss. 200/F/3/52/19/1. Federation of British Industries papers, Location of Industry: Notes by S. A. Sadler Forster, MRC, Warwick.
31. PASOLD E. W. (1977) Ladybird Ladybird: A Story of Private Enterprise. Manchester University Press, Manchester.
32. PIORE M. J. and SABEL C. F. (1984) The Second Industrial Divide. Basic Books, New York.
33. PITFIELD D. E. (1973) Labour migration and the regional problem in Britain 1920-1939, unpublished Ph.D. thesis, Department of Geography, University of Stirling.
34. POLITICAL AND ECONOMIC PLANNING (1939) Report on the Location of Industry. PEP, London.
35. PUBLIC RECORD OFFICE (PRO) (1932a) BT 56/40/CIA1800/71, Memorandum to Horace Hamilton, c. 1 February, PRO, London.
36. PRO (1932b) BT 56/50/CIA2331, 7 March, PRO, London.
37. PRO (1932c) BT 56/40/CIA1800/71. Establishment of foreign factories in this country, 14 April, PRO, London.
38. PRO (1934) HO 45/15979, Report of visit to Manchester by several German textile manufacturers, 27 April, PRO, London.
39. PRO (1950) HLG 90/440, Welwyn Garden City: some aspects of its economic history, June, PRO, London.
40. PRO (n.d.) BT 56/46/CIA/2012. PRO, London.
41. PRO (n.d.) BT 56/49/CIA2259, PRO, London.
42. ROYAL COMMISSION ON THE DISTRIBUTION OF THE INDUSTRIAL POPULATION (1940a) Report, Cmd. 6153. HMSO, London.
43. ROYAL COMMISSION ON THE DISTRIBUTION OF THE INDUSTRIAL POPULATION (1940b) Minutes of Evidence. HMSO, London.
44. ROZENBLAT C. and PUMAIN D. (1993) The location of multinational firms in the European urban system, Urban Studies 30, 1,691-709.
45. SAVAGE M. (1988) Trade unionism, sex segregation, and the state: women's employment in 'new industries' in inter-war Britain, Social Hist 13, 209-30.
46. SCOTT P. (1998) The wolf at the door: the trade union movement and overseas multinationals in Britain during the 1930s, Social History 23, 195-210.
47. SCOTT P. and ROOTH T. (1996a) Protectionism and inward-fdi in Britain 1919-1939, Discussion Paper No. 80, Department of Economics, University of Portsmouth.
48. SCOTT P. and ROOTH T. (1996b) British public policy and foreign-based enterprises in Britain prior to 1939, Discussion Paper No. 85, Department of Economics, University of Portsmouth.
49. SLOUGH ESTATES LTD (c. 1928) Manufacture in England. Slough Estates Ltd, Slough.
50. STONE I. and PECK F. (1995) The foreign-owned manufacturing sector in UK peripheral regions, 1978-1993: restructuring and comparative performance, Reg. Studies 30, 55-68.
51. TAYLOR J. (1996) An analysis of the factors determining the geographical distribution of Japanese manufacturing investment in the UK, 1984-91, Urban Studies 30, 1,209-24.
52. TRAFFORD PARK ESTATES LTD (1919) Trafford Park: Its Manufactures and the Advantages Offered for New Development. Trafford Park Estates Ltd, Manchester.
53. WARD S. V. (1990) Local industrial promotion and development policies, 1899-1940, Local Econ. 5, 99-118.
54. YOUNG S., HOOD N. and PETERS E. (1994) Multinational enterprises and regional economic development, Reg. Studies 28, 657-77.