Governing Belgian expansionism in Egypt : the practice of interlocking directorates (1893-1947)

The term “interlocking directorates” emerged in the study of monopole formation in the world of business in the United States and Europe from the late nineteenth century onwards. Directorates are here considered as networks or parts of networks that embody financial and organisational ties between large corporations which also became interlocked with financial institutions. By looking closer to the practice of interlocking directorates in the Belgo-Egyptian economic context of the late nineteenth and the first half of the twentieth centuries we investigate aspects of Belgian expansionist entre... Mehr ...