Hubert Bonin Livres

Contenu : Rôle des banques dans le développement régional - Enracinement des banques dans la communauté d'intérêts des bourgeoisies et des milieux d'affaires - Evolution des stratégies et de l'organisation d'une firme bancaire - Constitution et renouvellement du portefeuille de savoir-faire d'une banque

The chapters confront theoretical issues, national stories, comparative case studies from the past to the present and issues, about: The strategies of corporate and investment banking divisions within specialised investment banks or universal banks; the management of middle-term risks fostered by investment banking; investment bankers and markets.

Focusing on three concessions in China, the book examines the commercial and banking systems established by French bankers and merchants. It assesses their successes and limitations, aiming to evaluate the true impact of French entrepreneurialism and influence in these regions shaped by French capitalism. Through this investigation, the work sheds light on the complexities of foreign business ventures in China during this period.

Exploring the role of banking systems during the European annexation of Asia, this collection of essays presents original research utilizing primary sources in multiple languages, including English, French, Russian, Chinese, and Japanese. It offers fresh perspectives on the financial dynamics of imperial Asia and serves as a foundation for further scholarly inquiry.

Many books have addressed the economic and financial history of Hong Kong, and the imperialist conflicts in the key Chinese port-cities but very few books have explored French initiatives and performance in this area, beyond diplomacy, geopolitics or cultural issues. In this book, Hubert Bonin confronts arguments about "the great divergence", "the first globalisation", and forms of "economic patriotism". He gauges the competitive edge of French companies and banks, their struggle with British domination (HBSC, Chartered, shipping, trade houses/hongs) and their resistance against competitors from other countries (Japan, Germany, Netherlands, Belgium, USA, or Russia). The book delves into studies of management abroad, therefore mixing broad geo-economic issues with precise business history and deep banking history. The connections between French interests in China and Hong Kong and the colony of Indochina are established too. A second part of the book is dedicated to the case study of Hong Kong, as the British colony acted as a hub for Asian and European interests at the heart of connections with mainland China and some neighbouring territories (Indochina, etc.). This is essential reading for academics interested in banking and business history, the history of entrepreneurship, as well as, those involved in the contemporary history of China and Hong Kong, in the assessment of world-wide geo-economic competition between European powers in Asia (Great-Britain, and France), and in the first stages of economic "modernity", along European models, in emerging modern China

The aim of this book is to explore and compare the welfare strategies of businesses, including the various forms of «paternalism», over two centuries and across a number of countries. Specifically, the book examines differentiation and variation among the social mindsets of companies. Business history inevitably involves the study of social policies, including analysis of the societal influence of companies and their response to workforce demands concerning living conditions. In this book, historical forms of patronage are considered (old paternalism), as well as structured social policies aimed at stabilizing and appeasing labour relations (new paternalism). Issues of «post-paternalism» are then studied, opening the door to an assessment of the differences between the various types of paternalism and an exploration of the «fad» of corporate social responsibility (CSR) or corporate social entrepreneurship (CSE). This concept, which gained prominence among transnational companies around the turn of the 1980s and the beginning of the third industrial revolution, involved the design of an entrepreneurial strategy to identify, analyse, organise, create and manage a venture to initiate sustainable and systematic socio-economic change.