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:10.1093/0199272093.003.0004
4 Manufacturing Geoffrey Jones Multinational strategies have played key roles in nearly all of the world’s dynamic manufacturing industries since the late 19th century. The firms that pioneered the capital-intensive technologies of the Second Industrial Revolution in the late 19th century — chemicals, electronics, and machinery — rapidly expanded into international markets. Automobile manufacturers followed in their path, as did their post-World War II successors in computers, pharmaceuticals, and telecommunications. Keywords: multinationals, manufacturing industries, chemicals, electronics, machinery, automobile, computers, pharmaceuticals, telecommunications, doi:10.1093/0199272093.003.0004