Micropolitics and Economic Power: Corporate Relocation in the Twilight of the British Empire
通过坦噶尼喀特许公司1946-1952年从英国迁至南罗得西亚的案例，揭示内部和外部行动者如何塑造企业迁移过程，以及美国投资者网络如何影响公司战略，说明企业迁移是嵌入帝国衰落和战后全球资本重构的政治过程。
This paper examines the micropolitics of corporate domicile relocation through the case of Tanganyika Concessions, a British company that shifted its headquarters from the United Kingdom to Southern Rhodesia between 1946 and 1952. Drawing on archival sources like the Rio Tinto Collection, the British National Archives, and the Union Minière du Haut-Katanga (UMHK) archives, it reconstructs how internal and external actors shaped the relocation process. A central influence came from an informal network of U.S.-based investors—dubbed the “American Group,” whose capital was actively courted and whose conditions reshaped corporate strategy. The analysis reveals the power dynamics among major shareholders, including Anglo American, Rio Tinto, UMHK, and the Bank of England, showing how competing interests required continual negotiation. The study demonstrates that corporate relocations are politically charged processes embedded in imperial decline and the reconfiguration of postwar global capital.