Multinationals from the 1930s to the 1980s

Jones, Geoffrey

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“…A globalist economy of complex supply chains and capital flows was coming to challenge the mid-century world of managed national economies, and even national sovereignties. 61 Accordingly, when Strong asked the ICC to assemble the cooperation of six major industriespulp and paper, iron and steel, chemical and pharmaceuticals, automobiles, petroleum, and agriculturethat UNEP might work with, it was predominantly multinational corporations rather than business associations that were contacted. From the outset, there was a tension as to whether international institutions or these resurgent multinational global actors were best suited to meeting the UNEP's planetary aims.…”

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Business and the Planetary History of International Environmental Governance in the 1970s

Huf

Sluga²,

Selchow³

2022

Contemporary European History

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The role of business and multinational corporations (MNCs) in early international environmental governance is not well understood. Typically, historians accord business growing influence after the 1992 Rio Earth Summit, coincident with the rise of a market-oriented sustainable development paradigm. In this article, we highlight the considerable involvement of self-styled business actors in the formative 1972 UN Conference on the Human Environment and subsequent establishment of the UN Environment Programme. Tracing the interconnected networks of British economist Barbara Ward, Italian industrialist Aurelio Peccei and Canadian oilman-turned-UNEP boss Maurice Strong, we identify business actors as key in the passage from ‘planetary’ to ‘global’ environmental rationales characteristic of environmental politics between the 1970s and 1990s. However, we also show that business was a sought-after (even if often ambiguous) partner in the 1970s’ moment of innovative ‘planetary’ environmental thinking and institution making. The contested status of MNCs in 1970s internationalism shaped this early business involvement in the history of environmental governance.

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Section: A Planetary Historymentioning

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Business and the Planetary History of International Environmental Governance in the 1970s

Huf

Sluga²,

Selchow³

2022

Contemporary European History

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“…It was at this time that the roots of the new global economy, which came to fruition in the 1980s and 1990s, took hold. 4 Geoffrey Jones has commented on our lack of knowledge about British multinationals after 1945. 5 On the U.S. Mira for the late 1950s and 1960s will we be able to evaluate the full impact of U.S. foreign policies on U.S. private enterprise abroad."…”

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Multinational Enterprise and Government Controls on Outward Foreign Direct Investment in the United States and the United Kingdom in the 1960s

Rollings

2011

Enterp. soc.

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The 1960s have been seen as critical in the development of multinational enterprise by social scientists. Business historians have provided a context to these developments but are only now beginning to consider the 1960s in the light of access to archival material. This article analyses the nature and extent of the tension between multinational enterprise and U.S. and U.K. national governments in the 1960s caused by the tightening of controls on FDI introduced to resolve balance of payments problems. A comparative approach is adopted to illustrate that these tensions were not restricted to the U.S. The tension revolved around different conceptions of business investment decision-making and of the contribution of multinationals to the national economy. It is also suggested that the impact of these measures was at the micro-level and this highlights the value of business history approaches.

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Weltorganisationen, transnationale Unternehmen und die Diffusion von CSR

Coni-Zimmer

2012

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Multinationals from the 1930s to the 1980s

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Business and the Planetary History of International Environmental Governance in the 1970s

Business and the Planetary History of International Environmental Governance in the 1970s

Multinational Enterprise and Government Controls on Outward Foreign Direct Investment in the United States and the United Kingdom in the 1960s

Weltorganisationen, transnationale Unternehmen und die Diffusion von CSR

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