Global businesses are not new. There have been cross-border private sector enterprises, run by multi-cultural self-renewing meritocracies, since the birth of the great religious orders in the first Christian millennium. There have been international trading businesses, operating in a standardised and bureaucratic fashion, since the creation of the Dutch and British East India Companies in the 17th century....more

TELECOMMUNICATIONS
Eroding boundaries of time and space  Dec 6

INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY
First unsteady steps in great cyber-exploration  Dec 6

BRANDS
Shaping the psychology of choice  Dec 6

INDUSTRY
A cure is found for the mundaneness of making things  Dec 6

FINANCIAL SERVICES
Cottages consolidate  Dec 6

THE CAR
Manufacturers shift rapidly through the gears  Dec 6

AIRCRAFT
Technical wherewithal set against financial reality  Dec 6



CURRENCIES
Internet heralds coincidence of wants  Dec 6

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