From Family Firms to Corporate Capitalism: Essays in Business and Industrial History in Honour of Peter Mathias

From Family Firms to Corporate Capitalism: Essays in Business and Industrial History in Honour of Peter Mathias

ISBN-10:
0198290462
ISBN-13:
9780198290469
Pub. Date:
04/23/1998
Publisher:
Oxford University Press
ISBN-10:
0198290462
ISBN-13:
9780198290469
Pub. Date:
04/23/1998
Publisher:
Oxford University Press
From Family Firms to Corporate Capitalism: Essays in Business and Industrial History in Honour of Peter Mathias

From Family Firms to Corporate Capitalism: Essays in Business and Industrial History in Honour of Peter Mathias

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Overview

What explains the growth of a business, and more broadly the development or decline of a whole economy? What role does a particular entrepreneur or indeed a culture of entrepreneurship play? Does the evidence suggest that a particular structure or organizational form was or should be adopted to ensure best practice and commercial success? These fundamental questions have long preoccupied business and economic historians. With the current expansion of business and management education and training, the investigations and findings of the historian may have wider significance and relevance.

This volume has been stimulated by the work of Peter Mathias, one of the leading figures in this field in the post-war period. Here a number of his former students—many now internationally distinguished historians—pay tribute in a book that explores the move from family firms to corporate capitalism. The contributors argue that sustained growth has never been a matter of a few spectacular technical breakthroughs, but instead rests on subtle economic and social transformations—in cultures, in economic organizations, and in the roles of science and technology.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780198290469
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Publication date: 04/23/1998
Pages: 392
Product dimensions: 9.21(w) x 6.14(h) x 0.88(d)
Lexile: 1660L (what's this?)

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University of London

Table of Contents

Introduction, Kristine Bruland
Part I. Industry and Business in the Age of the Industrial Revolution
1. Inventors of the World of Goods, Maxine Berg
2. Firm, Family, and Community: Managerial and Household Strategies in the Staffordshire Pottery in the Mid-Nineteenth Century, Marguerite Dupree
3. Risk, Capital, and Credit on Tyneside, circa 1690-1780, Joyce Ellis
4. Petty Pawns and Informal Lending: Gender and the Transformation of Small-Scale Credit in England, circa 1600-1800, Beverly Lemire
5. Sugar Refining in Bristol, Kenneth Morgan
6. ‘The Irremediable Evil': British Copper Smelters' Collusion and the Cornish Mining Industry, 1725-1865, Edmund Newell
7. Fuelling the Local Economy: the Fenland Coal Trade, 1760-1850, Fiona Wood
Part II. The Era of Corporate Capitalism
8. The Babcock & Wilson Company: Strategic Alliance, Technology Development, and Enterprise Control, circa 1860-1900, Kristine Bruland
9. Joseph Gillot and his Family Firm: the Many Faces of Entrepreneurship, David Cannadine
10. Incomes Policies in Britain since 1940: A Study in Political Economy, Brian Harrison
11. The Lancashire Cotton Industry, and its Rivals, Heita Kawakatsu
12. The American Automobile Frenzy of the 1950s, Avner Offer
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