A Business in Risk: Jardine Matheson and the Hong Kong Trading Industry | 
 enlarge | Manufacturer: Praeger Publishers
Category: EBooks
List Price: $44.00
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Avg. Customer Rating:  1 reviews
Sales Rank: 97188
Format: Kindle Book
Media: Kindle Edition
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 200
Dewey Decimal Number: 382.095125
ASIN: B001BKMQUU
Publication Date: May 30, 2004
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Product Description
Jardine Matheson & Company is perhaps best known through James Clavell's Taipan. The firm played an important role in the founding of Hong Kong, but its growth in the 20th century, through acquisition and divestiture, has never been adequately explored until now. This is not only the first study of Jardine Matheson to systematically uncover the industrial logic of its growth strategy; it is also among the first studies of the Hong Kong trading industry as an adaptive "ecosystem" based on trade, equity, and debt relationships that reduced business risk. Understanding the experience of Jardine Matheson will prove valuable to anyone who is eager to learn the lessons of adaptation and survival that marked not only the first period of globalization, but its current incarnation as well.
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A Business in Risk : Risky....... October 31, 2004
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As a book outlining concepts of business science this book is passable, but nothing more. The Jardine Matheson content is vast although some highly significant strategic moves, the investment in Trafalgar House and any analysis of the effect of the cross shareholding arrangement, are glaring omissions. As a business science book this was not good value, as a Jardines book the "Thistle and the Jade" totally outclasses Ms. Connell's efforts. Too much enthusiasm for the company comes over and as the book was not written with official sanction it is hard to understand why. The subject deserves a far more balanced critique than that given, better books on this subject exist!
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