Business in Britain in the Twentieth Century

Abstract

Introduction: British Business in the Twentieth Century: What Sort of Decline, What Sort of 'Renaissance'? 1. Strategic Games, Scale, and Efficiency, or Chandler goes to Hollywood 2. Industrial Policy in Twentieth Century Britain 3. Business in the Regions: From 'Old' Districts to 'New' Clusters? 4. Elites, Entrepreneurs, and British Business in the Twentieth Century 5. Invisible Entrepreneurs? Women and Business in Twentieth Century Britain 6. From a Solution to a Problem? Overseas Multinationals in Britain during Economic Decline and Renaissance 7. British Management since 1945: 'Renaissance' and Inertia, Illusions and Realities 8. Not 'Decline and Revival': An Alternative Narrative on British Post-War Productivity 9. Marketing Management in Britain: What Is the Evidence for 'Failure'? 10. British Retail Banking in the Twentieth Century: Decline and Renaissance in Industrial Lending 11. The Decline and Renewal of British Multinational Banking 12. Back to the Future: The Aircraft and IT Industries in Britain since 1945 13. Industrial Research and the Employment of Scientists in British Industry before the 1970s 14. Increasing Value? Modern British Retailing in the Late Twentieth Century 15. Predicting, Providing, Sustaining, Integrating? British Transport Policy since 1945 16. The Film Industry in Twentieth Century Britain: Consumption Patterns, Government Regulation, and Firm Strategy 17. British Sport Transformed: Sport, Business, and the Media since 1960 18. Ethics, Religion, and Business in Twentieth Century Britain