TY - JOUR
T1 - From the great depression to decolonization
T2 - entrepreneurship and capital returns in the Portuguese colonial empire
AU - Costa, José Rodrigues da
AU - Mata, Maria Eugénia
N1 - Funding information#
FCT - Fundacao para a Ciencia e Tecnologia#
PTDC/HIS-HIS/100132#
Publisher Copyright#
© 2021 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group#
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Copyright 2021 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved#
PY - 2021
Y1 - 2021
N2 - The integration of financial markets was a facet of the increasing globalization of the worldwide economy. The focus in this paper is the business organizational perspective of corporations that operated in Portuguese overseas territories: Distance, climate, lack of trained local labor force, and other difficulties related with cultural differences, required organizational aspects that represented higher risk and higher capital rewards. They were higher than the average index of the Lisbon Stock Market as a whole, and must be interpreted in the context of the role of different organizational aspects for entrepreneurship and businesses in overseas territories.
AB - The integration of financial markets was a facet of the increasing globalization of the worldwide economy. The focus in this paper is the business organizational perspective of corporations that operated in Portuguese overseas territories: Distance, climate, lack of trained local labor force, and other difficulties related with cultural differences, required organizational aspects that represented higher risk and higher capital rewards. They were higher than the average index of the Lisbon Stock Market as a whole, and must be interpreted in the context of the role of different organizational aspects for entrepreneurship and businesses in overseas territories.
KW - capital rewards
KW - colonial corporations
KW - Lisbon Stock Exchange
KW - overseas businesses
KW - Recovery of crises
KW - tropical business
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85107500275&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1080/17449359.2021.1927758
DO - 10.1080/17449359.2021.1927758
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85107500275
SN - 1744-9359
VL - 16
SP - 1
EP - 21
JO - Management and Organizational History
JF - Management and Organizational History
IS - 1
ER -