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The Global Cigarette: Origins and Evolution of British American Tobacco, 1880-1945

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  • Cox, Howard

    (South Bank University, London)

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During the 1880s, the tobacco manufacturing industries of Britain and America were revolutionized by the introduction of mechanized cigarette production. The development of this novel, image-laden product constituted a triumph for the methods of mass production and mass distribution in this most traditional of consumer goods industries. The Global Cigarette charts the way in which these innovations in manufacturing and marketing methods led to the formation in 1902 of the British American Tobacco Co. as an Anglo-American multinational joint venture designed to promote cigarettes in international markets. Based on archive materials from a wide variety of sources, including the company's own internal records, this book provides the first authoritative account of BAT's evolution and growth up until the Second World War. In particular, The Global Cigarette shows the way in which the company developed a vast array of international operating subsidiaries, explores how it managed these enterprises in different political and cultural contexts-notably in China and India-and analyses the way in which the company, as a mature multinational enterprise, coped with the severe international economic dislocations of the 1930s. In the era of globalization, this account of the operational and organizational arrangements of a prefigurative 'global' company will shed light on current debates on alliances, joint ventures, and international business.

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  • Cox, Howard, 2000. "The Global Cigarette: Origins and Evolution of British American Tobacco, 1880-1945," OUP Catalogue, Oxford University Press, number 9780198292210.
    • Handle: RePEc:oxp:obooks:9780198292210
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    1. Gary B. Magee & Andrew S. Thompson, 2003. "Complacent Or Competitive? British Exporters And The Drift To Empire," Department of Economics - Working Papers Series 889, The University of Melbourne.
    2. Holden Chris & Lee Kelley & Fooks Gary Jonas & Wander Nathaniel, 2010. "The Impact of Regional Trade Integration on Firm Organization and Strategy: British American Tobacco in the Andean Pact," Business and Politics, De Gruyter, vol. 12(4), pages 1-32, December.
    3. Ryo Izawa, 2018. "Corporate Structural Change for Tax Avoidance: British Multinational Enterprises and International Double Taxation between the First and Second World Wars," Discussion Papers CRR Discussion Paper Series A: General 33, Shiga University, Faculty of Economics,Center for Risk Research.
    4. Billings, Mark & Capie, Forrest, 2009. "Transparency and financial reporting in mid-20th century British banking," Accounting forum, Elsevier, vol. 33(1), pages 38-53.
    5. Karlsson, Tobias, 2012. "Workforce Reductions in Theory and Practice: The Swedish Tobacco Monopoly in the 1920s," MPRA Paper 39235, University Library of Munich, Germany.
    6. Teresa Silva Lopes & Paulo Guimaraes, 2014. "Trademarks and British dominance in consumer goods, 1876–1914," Economic History Review, Economic History Society, vol. 67(3), pages 793-817, August.
    7. Rory M. Miller, 2013. "Financing British manufacturing multinationals in Latin America, 1930-65," Business History, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 55(5), pages 818-839, July.
    8. Mira Wilkins, 2009. "Multinational enterprise in insurance: An historical overview," Business History, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 51(3), pages 334-363.
    9. Gao, Jie, 2018. "Refining modern beauties: The evolving depiction of Chinese women in cigarette cards, 1900–37," SocArXiv hp84t, Center for Open Science.
    10. Andrew Thompson & Gary Magee, 2003. "A soft touch? British industry, empire markets, and the self‐governing dominions, c.1870–1914," Economic History Review, Economic History Society, vol. 56(4), pages 689-717, November.
    11. Leslie Hannah, 2004. "Concentration and Productivity: A Broader Perspective," CIRJE F-Series CIRJE-F-305, CIRJE, Faculty of Economics, University of Tokyo.

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