“…Though there are conceptual similarities between the categories of FSC and INV, they are (it seems) temporally disconnected phenomena, and largely engaged in very different sectors and business activities. So while INVs are associated with service firms (Rialp, Rialp, & Knight, 2005), research into FSCs indicates they could be found in every sector of the economy-primary, secondary, and tertiaryand were engaged in activities as diverse as mining (Harvey & Press, 1990;Harvey & Taylor, 1987;Mollan, 2009), plantations, forestry and livestock farming (Mollan, 2008;Tennent, 2013), public utilities (Platt, 1977), banking (C. Jones, 1977;Geoffrey Jones, 1998), transport (Boughey, 2009), trade (Geoffrey Jones, 2000) as well as in wholesale and retail (Mollan, 2010). There were many thousands of FSCs (Houston & Dunning, 1976;Wilkins & Schröter, 1998) and yet though they are thought to have largely disappeared from view by the mid-20th century, both the reasons for their decline, and their fate, remain largely unknown (Miller, 1998;Mollan & Tennent, 2015;Wilkins, 1998;Wilkins & Schröter, 1998).…”