Enterprise and Society Advance Access published online on December 7, 2007
Enterprise and Society, doi:10.1093/es/khm086
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Martin J. Iversen. GN Store Nord. A Company in Transition, 1939–1988
Martin J. Iversen. GN Store Nord. A Company in Transition, 1939–1988. Copenhagen: Business School Press, 2005. 216 pp. ISBN 87-630-0133-0, $32.00
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The history of the Great Northern Telegraph Company (GN), as a born multinational enterprise, an exception in Danish business history, starts in 1869. International telegraphy had been its core business for seventy years when the board of the company in 1939, "made a historical decision" (p. 9) and supplemented telegraphy activities by investments in the manufacturing industry. Although the year 1988
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