Rio Tinto Company. An economic history of a leading international mining concern, 1873-1954

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Winner of the Wadsworth Prize for Business History, 1981. See also the writer's doctoral thesis 'Rio Tinto Company, 1873-1954. An economic history of a leading international mining concern', Bristol, 1981. Provides a scholarly study of the establishment and rise of a multinational business and its impact and association with host countries, most notably Spain and the Spanish government. Structured in two parts: 1] formulation of corporate strategies and their relationship with the organisation and management of the enterprise, 1873-1925, and 2] assessment of the firm's performance according to the principal strategies which conditioned its development, 1925-54. Chapters include: Part 1: 'The Spanish venture'; 'International marketing'; 'Invention, innovation and finance'; 'Rio Tinto and the economy of Spain'; 'International production'; 'The Great War and its aftermath'; 'Business organization, management and enterprise'; Part 2: 'Strategy and structure'; 'The Northern Rhodesian venture'; 'Spain - the watershed years'; 'Rio Tinto and the Spanish Civil War'; 'Rio Tinto and the economics of Francoism'. Has very extensive statistical appendices re extraction output, costs, profits, etc. Includes some coverage of Tharsis Sulphur & Copper Co and, more notably, copper extraction industry in Africa