 Canadian Regional and National Business Elites in 1912: Who Was Connected, Who Wasn’t and Why?Jon Mackay ()
Chapter Chapter 8 in A History of Socially Responsible Business, c.1600–1950, 2017, pp 189-212 from Palgrave Macmillan Abstract: 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. Keywords: Business Elite; Waterloo County; directorsDirector; Corporate Interlocks; Annual Trade Reports (search for similar items in EconPapers) There are no downloads for this item, see the EconPapers FAQ for hints about obtaining it. Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:pal:psitcp:978-3-319-60146-5_8 Ordering information: This item can be ordered from DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-60146-5_8 Access Statistics for this chapter More chapters in Palgrave Studies in the History of Finance from Palgrave Macmillan |
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