In a ‘dawn raid’ on the London Stock Exchange on 7 September 1981, the premiere British rubber and oil palm conglomerate in Malaysia, the Guthrie Corporation Limited, was taken into local control in less than four hours. This was the most dramatic Malaysian acquisition of a foreign company...

In synthesizing recent studies of the relationships between British businesses and British governments during decolonization, the article takes issue with the "gentlemanly capitalism" paradigm. Imperial business and imperial government did not represent a cohesive elite; private and public...

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to explore the nature of marketing communications of British shipping lines in the period from c.1840 to c.1970 to establish the extent to which these outputs reflect extant scholarship which points to the lack of innovation as a key reason for the demise of...