The Impact of the First World War on International Business

Andrew Smith is Senior Lecturer in International Business at the University of Liverpool Management School, UK. Simon Mollan is Senior Lecturer in International Business at The York Management School, University of York, UK. Kevin Tennent is Lecturer in Management at The York Management School, University of York, UK.

Part 1: Shifting Globalization: Europe’s Hegemony Challenged

1. Trade after the Deluge: British Commerce, Armageddon, and the Political Economy of Globalization, 1914-1918

Andrew Dilley

2. The 'Impact' of the First World War on Business and Economic Development in Sudan

Simon Mollan

3. Profiting Despite the Great War: Argentina’s Grain Multinationals

Phillip Dehne

Part 2: New Opportunities: Trans-border Innovations in Wartime

4. Swedish Business in the First World War: A Case Study of the Ball Bearings Manufacturer SKF

Eric Golson and Jason Lennard

5. The Great War: Matrix of the International Chamber of Commerce, a Fortunate Business League of Nations

Clotilde Druelle-Korn

6. ‘A Tremendous Panic’: The Global Financial Crisis of 1914

Richard Roberts

7. Business as (Un)Usual: DuPont, Comptoir des Textiles Artificiels and the Post First World War Internationalization of the Synthetic Products Industry

Jacqueline McGlade

Part 3: Postwar Reconstruction and its Financing

8. American and British Businessmen and Attempts to Reconstruct War-torn Western Europe, 1918-1922

Volker R. Berghahn

9. Mammon Unbound: The International Financial Architecture of Wall Street Banks, 1915-1925

Trevin Stratton

10. The Flows of International Finance after the First World War: The Bank of England and Hungary, 1920–1939

Neil Forbes

11. Weimar’s Capitalist Spring: A Liberal Exception to Corporate Germany’s Sonderweg

Leslie Hannah

12. The Impact of the First World War on British and French Management Thought and Practice

Trevor Boyns