Oxford Scholarship Online: Multinationals and Global Capitalism

Multinationals and Global Capitalism From the Nineteenth to the Twenty First Century Jones, Geoffrey Professor of Business Administration, Department of Entrepreneurial Management, Harvard Business School Print publication date: 2004 (this edition) Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: April 2005 Print ISBN-13: 978-0-19-927209-9 doi:10.1093/0199272093.003.0011
11 Conclusions Geoffrey Jones One of the most important themes in history is globalisation, which has connected a world once separated by geography, culture, language, and politics. Globalisation accelerated rapidly from the 19th century. Business enterprises were the principal orchestrators of trade, capital, and knowledge flows, while governments provided the legal and administrative framework. Keywords: globalisation, multinationals, governments, global economy, doi:10.1093/0199272093.003.0011