Opium and Entrepreneurship in the Nineteenth Century Harvard Case Solution & Analysis

Opium and Entrepreneurship in the Nineteenth Century Case Solution

This case deals with the immense growth in trading firms that operate in the first world-wide market. Examines two Scottish-owned merchant houses, Jardine Matheson and James Finlay, and shows their shifting trade and investment strategies in addition to their use of an organizational type later known as business groups.

Also presents the role of ethnic networks in globalization during this historical period. A rewritten version of an earlier case.

PUBLICATION DATE: July 01, 2004 PRODUCT #: 805010-HCB-ENG

This is just an excerpt. This case is about GLOBAL BUSINESS

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