ABSTRACT
This book has explored the Marki enterprise from its roots in nineteenth-century British industry to its demise with Poland’s Second Republic in 1939. The final chapter will summarise some of the case study’s central findings, such as the contemporary incentives to undertake foreign direct investment, the influence of British industrial experience on the venture capitalists’ strategy, indications of the firm’s performance and particularly the vital importance of local cooperation to establish and operate an enterprise abroad effectively. However, as this was primarily an exploration of individual entrepreneurship rather than British or Polish trade legislatures and industrial histories, it seems appropriate in this concluding chapter to consider in greater detail the personalities, motivations and methods of the men who built the Marki venture.
