Political and Economic News in the Age of Multinationals

Tworek, Heidi

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“…Yet, it is clear we should not take this too far (Dehne 2013). Indeed Tworek (2015) refers to the period from about 1850 to the Second World War as 'the age of multinationals'. And if one looks beyond Europe it has been suggested that 'the interwar years were not a period of deglobalization, but a period in which the relations between states and firms and between the West and the 'rest' were reordered and renegotiated' (Dejung and Petersson 2013: 16).…”

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Gender, Race, and Entrepreneurship

Yeager¹

2019

The Routledge Companion to the Makers of Global Business

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Gender, Race, and Entrepreneurship

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2019

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“…Sinuosos, labirínticos e ambíguos são pois os caminhos que vão da informação à espionagem ou da propaganda às relações públicas, sobretudo quando esses caminhos são (profissionalmente) percorridos no século XX (cf. Tworek 2015ou Heinelt 2003.…”

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Espiões, Mentiras e Livros. Literatura de viagens e (des)informação nos anos 30 ou: a vida e os escritos do Dr. Manfred Zapp

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“The Vital Link”: British Print Media Export to Australia, 1853–1980

Swenson

2024

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This paper uses the case study of Gordon & Gotch, media import/exporters, to explore how the transnational sale of British media contributed to a common cultural identity within the British World. Gordon & Gotch, founded as a media import firm in Australia in 1853, opened a London branch in 1866 which became independently owned and operated in 1890. This paper argues that the London and Australasian firms of Gordon & Gotch played an important and understudied role in tying Australia to Britain through lines of business that benefitted men in Melbourne and London, creating an “imagined community” of British readers that spanned oceans. The paper also explores how the divergent strategies of the London and Australasian Gordon & Gotches in the wake of the Second World War help us to understand the timeline of Australia’s cultural disentanglement with Britain. As new political economies developed in Britain and Australia, the London firm was forced to pivot to a European or more generally “global” strategy, while the Australian firm refocused its energies to domestic and American media. The consequence for Australian consumers was a reduced presence of British media and a greater preponderance of American, Australian, and locally printed multinational media in Australia. The long history of the British and Antipodean Gordon & Gotches reveals the contingency of British media saturation in Australia and the value of business historical approaches to studying change in cultural markets.

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Political and Economic News in the Age of Multinationals

Cited by 8 publications

References 28 publications

Gender, Race, and Entrepreneurship

Gender, Race, and Entrepreneurship

Espiões, Mentiras e Livros. Literatura de viagens e (des)informação nos anos 30 ou: a vida e os escritos do Dr. Manfred Zapp

“The Vital Link”: British Print Media Export to Australia, 1853–1980

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