From Family Firms to Corporate Capitalism
Essays in Business and Industrial History in Honour of Peter Mathias
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 12 February 1998
- ISBN 9780198290469
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages388 pages
- Size 243x164x25 mm
- Weight 795 g
- Language English
- Illustrations frontispiece, line figures, tables 0
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Short description:
What explains the growth of a business, and more broadly, the development or decline of a whole economy? What role do particular entrepreneurs or indeed cultures of entrepreneurship play? 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 pay tribute in a book that explores the move from family firms to corporate capitalism.
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What explains the growth of a business, and more broadly the development or decline of a whole economy? What role do particular entrepreneursor 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 pre-occupied 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 Mathiasone of the leading figures in this field in the post-war period. Here a number of his former studentsmany now internationally distinguished historianspay tribute in a book that explores the move from family firms to corporate capitalism. In a series of chapters they explore at the level of the firm the myriad of micro decisions that ultimately help to explain the overall performance of industries, sectors, and national economies as they evolve through time.
The contributors argue that sustained growth has never been a matter of a few spectacular technical breakthroughs. Instead it rest on subtle economic and social transformations - in cultures, in economic organizations, and in the roles of science and technology.
... Kristine Bruland and Patrick O'Brien, have brought together an impressive team of contributors, who effectively reflect on the breadth and depth of scholarship of their mentor.../ Those who have admired and benefitted from Peter Mathias's work will come to this IfestschriftI with high expectations and they will not be disappointed. Individually and collectively they provide a fine set of studies which Peter Mathias would himself have been pleased to write./ Tony Slaven, University of Glasgow, Scandinavian Economic History Review, Vol 47, no 1, 1999
Table of Contents:
Introduction
Part I. Industry and Business in the Age of the Industrial Revolution
Inventors of the World of Goods
Firm, Family, and Community: Managerial and Household Strategies in the Staffordshire Potteries in the Mid-Nineteenth Century
Risk, Capital, and Credit on Tyneside, circa 1690-1780
Petty Pawns and Informal Lending: Gender and the Transformation of Small-Scale Credit in England, circa 1600-1800
Sugar Refining in Bristol
`The Irremediable Evil': British Copper Smelters' Collusion and the Cornish Mining Industry, 1725-1865
Fuelling the Local Economy: the Fenland Coal Trade, 1760-1850
Part II. The Era of Corporate Capitalism
The Babcock & Wilson Company: Strategic Alliance, Technology Development, and Enterprise Control, circa 1860-1900
Joseph Gillot and his Family Firm: the Many Faces of Entrepreneurship
Incomes Policies in Britain since 1940: A Study in Political Economy
The Lancashire Cotton Industry and its Rivals
The American Automobile Frenzy of the 1950s
