Local Business Voice
The History of Chambers of Commerce in Britain, Ireland, and Revolutionary America, 1760-2011
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 27 October 2011
- ISBN 9780199584734
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages936 pages
- Size 253x177x57 mm
- Weight 1744 g
- Language English 0
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Short description:
The book provides the first definitive, scholarly, and systematic history of the Chambers of Commerce (local organizations of business people) from their origins in the 18th century, through their historical development up to the present date. Based on new and previously inaccessible archive information, it covers the UK, Ireland, USA, and Canada.
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Local Business Voice provides the first scholarly and systematic history of the Chambers of Commerce from early historical origins in the eighteenth century up to the present date. Based on new archival information, it provides exhaustive coverage of all UK and Irish chambers, as well as detailed examination of early Chambers in the U.S., including New York, Charleston, and Boston, and early Chambers in Quebec and Jamaica.
The book traces the importance of early tax protests and anger as motivating forces through interrelation with the American Revolution. It traces the emergence of service bundles, such commercial arbitration, coffee and reading rooms, and information and consultancy services as critical to the Chambers' unique market position. Some of the services had a unique status as trust goods, exploiting the chambers' USP as high status mutual non-profit organisations. It demonstrates the challenges for the Chambers as independent voluntary bodies in increasing partnerships with governments and competition with rival institutions, and also gives critical overview of key lobbies, such as over the Jay Treaty, tax expansion, the Corn Laws, tariff reform and free trade, municipal socialism, and modern regulatory burdens.
There is also extensive analysis of chamber membership and motivation, tracking changes in structure by firm size, sector and corporate and management structures. The growth of small firm membership, and the value of business networks and (in the early chambers) religious adherence, are shown as key mediums for recruitment, and maintaining commitment.
A definitive account of all local chambers including data appendices and detailed assessment of their significance, the book will be an enduring resource and foundation for research into the Chambers of Commerce's origins, historical development, and modern position.
An extremely accessible yet scholarly work clearly intended to be read not solely by specialist historians but by anyone with an academic or vocational interest in these fascinating institutions ... Bennett has succeeded in creating a thoroughly readable yet meticulously detailed work which chronicles the history of the chambers of commerce while successfully challenging a number of pre-conceptions. This is an essential read for anyone who either needs or wants to understand how these fascinating institutions have contributed to the economic, cultural, and political development of our society.
Table of Contents:
Local business voice and the chambers of commerce
Part 1. Establishment and development
Historical overview
Forces of association
Concept and origins
Diffusion
Part 2. Structural tensions
Resources, governance and management
Recognition and public status
National voice and local voice
Part 3. Activities
Early chamber voice
Voice from the Corn Laws to the twenty first century
Milieux for discourse and deliberation
Services
Partner and contractor to government
Part 4. Members
Members and interests
Motives for membership
Dynamics of membership
Part 5. Then and now
Then, now and the future
Endmatter
References:
Local chamber histories
General references
Appendix A. Archive sources
Appendix B. Data compilations and alignment
Appendix C. Population and other data sources
The Balanced Scorecard: Translating Strategy into Action
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