The Rio Tinto Company: An Economic History of a Leading International Mining Concern, 1873–1954
Author: Charles E. Harvey
ISBN: 0906720036
Description:
Winner of the 1981 Wadsworth Prize for Business History, Dr Harvey’s independent study of the Rio Tinto Company is a valuable addition to the sparse empirical literature on international business. It also enlightens aspects of modern Spanish history.
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Part I: 1873–1925 1 The Spanish Venture 2 International Marketing 3 Invention, Innovation and Finance 4 Rio Tinto and the Economy of Spain 5 International Production 6 The Great War and its Aftermath 7 Business Organization, Management and Enterprise Part II: 1925–1954 8 Strategy and Structure 9 The Northern Rhodesian Venture 10 Spain: The Watershed Years 11 Rio Tinto and the Spanish Civil War 12 Rio Tinto and the Economics of Francoism Conclusion Statistical Appendix Bibliography Index
‘The Rio Tinto archive … provides the basis for his analysis … (he) treats a wide range of subjects with sophistication and expertise’ in ‘a model study of a major business concern’ (European History Quarterly). It ‘is at its best when it homes in on the way in which this large enterprise… applied itself to the manipulation of markets’ (Financial Times). Charles Harvey lectures in economic and business history at the University of London, Royal Holloway and Bedford New College.
