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A History of Socially Responsible Business, c.1600–1950Canadian Regional and National Business Elites in 1912: Who Was Connected, Who Wasn’t and Why?

A History of Socially Responsible Business, c.1600–1950: Canadian Regional and National Business... [Using the Directory of Directors in Canada published in 1912, this paper recreates the national network of business elites. Growing urban centres throughout Canada generally maintained business connections with executives in the country’s major financial and business centres of Toronto and Montreal. However, there is an exception to this pattern: the ethnically German city of Berlin in Waterloo County, Ontario, had few connections to the existing Anglo-Canadian business elites. In 1912, Berlin was a significant manufacturing centre in Canada. Despite this, the Berlin business community operated outside the dominant Anglo-Canadian business networks. Taken together, these business networks offer an instructive look at the social assumptions often underlying private business relationships and the ways in which the interests of different publics may or may not be served by these relationships.] http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

A History of Socially Responsible Business, c.1600–1950Canadian Regional and National Business Elites in 1912: Who Was Connected, Who Wasn’t and Why?

Part of the Palgrave Studies in the History of Finance Book Series
Editors: Pettigrew, William A; Smith, David Chan
Mackay, Jon
A History of Socially Responsible Business, c.1600–1950 — Oct 29, 2017
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Springer International Publishing
Copyright
© The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2017
ISBN
978-3-319-60145-8
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189 –212
DOI
10.1007/978-3-319-60146-5_8
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Abstract

[Using the Directory of Directors in Canada published in 1912, this paper recreates the national network of business elites. Growing urban centres throughout Canada generally maintained business connections with executives in the country’s major financial and business centres of Toronto and Montreal. However, there is an exception to this pattern: the ethnically German city of Berlin in Waterloo County, Ontario, had few connections to the existing Anglo-Canadian business elites. In 1912, Berlin was a significant manufacturing centre in Canada. Despite this, the Berlin business community operated outside the dominant Anglo-Canadian business networks. Taken together, these business networks offer an instructive look at the social assumptions often underlying private business relationships and the ways in which the interests of different publics may or may not be served by these relationships.]

Published: Oct 29, 2017

Keywords: Business Elite; Waterloo County; directorsDirector; Corporate Interlocks; Annual Trade Reports

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