Subject: Management Book Title: Business in Britain in the Twentieth Century
Business in Britain in the Twentieth Century
Decline and Renaissance?
Coopey, Richard (Editor),
Senior Lecturer, Department of History and Welsh History, Aberystwyth University, and research fellow at the Business History Unit, London School of Economics
Lyth, Peter (Editor),
Lecturer, Tourism & Travel Research Institute, Nottingham University Business School, University of Nottingham
Print publication date: 2009
Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: September 2009 Print ISBN-13: 978-0-19-922600-9 doi:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199226009.001.0001 |
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Abstract:
This book brings together chapters from the leading historians of British business. The contributors were asked to consider the renaissance in the British economy during the closing decades of the 20th century. In doing so they were also asked to reconsider the debates and assertions relating to relative economic decline in Britain since the end of the 19th century. Chapters range across the economy, from banking, retail, high technology and staple industries, transport, to sports and leisure industries. In addition, key themes such as foreign investment, government policy, managerial characteristics, marketing, business, ethics, and so on have their own chapters. What emerges is a picture of complexity and reappraisal bringing into question the accuracy or applicability of much of the writing and axioms surrounding British business in the 20th century. Both the nature of economic recovery, the depth and periodization of relative decline clearly do not stand up to scrutiny. If nothing else the book disposes with the notion that a simple re-injection of market forces ideology in the 1980s changed and modernised the British economy. The book has identified both a need for a broad reappraisal to take into account the complexity underlying ideas of renaissance in the late 20th century, in addition to a need to reject unicausal explanations for the fate and possibilities of the British economy in the 21st century.
Keywords: British business history, economic renaissance, high technology industry, banking, retail, ethics, retail sector, leisure industries, transport, foreign direct investment Table of Contents
Introduction
Chapter 1.
Strategic Games, Scale, and Efficiency, or Chandler goes to Hollywood
Chapter 2.
Industrial Policy in Twentieth Century Britain
Chapter 3.
Business in the Regions: From ‘Old’ Districts to ‘New’ Clusters?
Chapter 4.
Elites, Entrepreneurs, and British Business in the Twentieth Century
Chapter 5.
Invisible Entrepreneurs? Women and Business in Twentieth Century Britain
Chapter 6.
From a Solution to a Problem? Overseas Multinationals in Britain during Economic Decline and Renaissance
Chapter 7.
British Management Since 1945: ‘Renaissance’ and Inertia, Illusions and Realities
Chapter 8.
Not ‘Decline and Revival’: An Alternative Narrative on British Post-War Productivity
Chapter 9.
Marketing Management in Britain: What is the Evidence for ‘Failure’?
Chapter 10.
British Retail Banking in the Twentieth Century: Decline and Renaissance in Industrial Lending
Chapter 11.
The Decline and Renewal of British Multinational Banking
Chapter 12.
Back to the Future: The Aircraft and IT Industries in Britain since 1945
Chapter 13.
Industrial Research and the Employment of Scientists in British Industry before the 1970s
Chapter 14.
Increasing Value? Modern British Retailing in the Late Twentieth Century
Chapter 15.
Predicting, Providing, Sustaining, Integrating? British Transport Policy since 1945
Chapter 16.
The Film Industry in Twentieth Century Britain: Consumption Patterns, Government Regulation, and Firm Strategy
Chapter 17.
British Sport Transformed: Sport, Business, and the Media since 1960
Chapter 18.
Ethics, Religion, and Business in Twentieth Century Britain
Index
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doi:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199226009.001.0001
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