The European Enterprise. Its Relevance and Problems

Harm G. Schröter
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Harm G. Schröter: University of Bergen

A chapter in The European Enterprise, 2008, pp 3-22 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract “If European integration is really to be achieved, there must develop European corporations” maintained the famous American economist Charles Kindleberger already in the 1960s.1 And Professor Franco Amatori, from Italy’s most distinguished business school, Università Bocconi, is convinced that “corporations are essentially the genetic code of European economic integration.” But did this genetic code lead to European enterprise? Or is the genetic code of European economic integration empty? Is Europe to be constructed without Europeans? Of course not! In fact, the European Union has sought for decades to construct a European economy without a key potential actor: European enterprise. However, we can at least read books on the on it.2 Firms even buy professional advice on it, provided by distinguished consultancies. All over the world we can get information or comments on European enterprise — except in Europe. The largest sceptics on this question are the Europeans themselves. Well-known scholars suggest the European enterprise never existed, and probably never will.

Keywords: Foreign Direct Investment; Welfare State; Genetic Code; European Integration; Trade Mark (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2008
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-74038-4_1

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