British business history, 1720-1994

Abstract

Part 1 Business history - an introduction: aims and definitions the Harvard school modelling business evolution business history and economic theory conclusion. Part 2 The emergence of modern business, 1720-1870: meeting the organisational challenges operational management - labour recruitment and control the utilities and professional management business and long-term finance liquidity and the financial environment British business by mid-century. Part 3 Big business abroad up to 1914: American managerial capitalism the German case - Co-operative Capitalism? Japanese business and the collective ideal a typology for large-scale business. Part 4 British industrial capitalism under pressure, 1870-1914: the market-cum-technological environment attitudes towards combination a reawakening? the business culture and its managerial impact business finance up to 1914 British business by 1914. Part 5 and corporatism, 1914-1945: business abroad and the multidivisional the Rationalisation Movement, mergers and the business culture Scientific Management and British workshop practices the rise of a corporate economy business by the 1940s. Part 6 capitalism - evolution and impact, 1945-94: Finance Capital and relations with the city mergers, take-over bids and managerial capitalism the dynamics of British managerial capitalism a Managerial Revolution? business into the 1990s.