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Business history has developed as an academic subject since the 1970s. Drawing on recent research and debate, this text plainly outlines the history of major aspects of business behaviour in 20th-century Britain, presuming little prior knowledge of history, business, or economics on the student's part. The text is organized in three sections: the business environment; business organization; and entrepreneurship and management. The first section outlines the changes that have most powerfully affected business, including global political and economic developments, and technological changes. The second section deals with business structures and strategies, merger waves, multinationals and small firms. Special attention is given to the role of the City of London and the financial sector, and also to the revolution in retailing. The third part of the text examines the social origins, education, and training of business leaders and evaluates the performance of British management with respect to research and development, labour relations, and marketing. The last two chapters are about the shaping of company culture and business ethics. Common to all the chapters are: the chapter's objectives; an outline of chapter contents; a concluding list of points the student should have learned; discussion questions; and a guide to further reading.

Table of Contents:
Acknowledgements. Introduction. Notes on general sources. Notes on the internal purchasing power of the pound. A. THE BUSINESS ENVIRONMENT. 1: Markets: political dimensions. 2: Markets: economic dimensions. 3: Technical change and business. 4: Business and the state. B. BUSINESS ORGANISATION. 5: Business structures and strategies. 6: Merger waves and the creation of big businesses in Britain. 7: Multinational activity. 8: The City and industry: London and the financial sector in British Business. 9: The birth, growth and death of firms: SMEs and retailing. C. ENTREPRENEURSHIP AND MANAGEMENT. 10: Entrepreneurs and managers: origins, education, training. 11: Management and research and development. 12: Management and labour relations. 13: Management and marketing. 14: Company culture. 15: Business ethics. Conclusion. Reading list. Questions for discussion. Appendix: 50 largest employers in the UK in 1907, 1935, 1955, 1992. Index

About the Author :
David Jeremy is Professor of Business History in the Faculty of Management and Business at Manchester Metropolitan University, a position he has held since 1987. He has had a varied career, working as a schoolteacher in the 1960s and 70s, as a museum curator in the USA in the early 1970s, and as an academic historian in the UK since 1979. He worked as a Research Fellow in the Business History Unit at the LSE between 1980 and 1987 before taking up his present position.

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"Jeremy provides an excellent account of the transition of British businesses from the Victorian to the so-called global contemporary economic environment and the relative decline in British macro-economic performance that should satisfy students and professors. The usual 'hard' micro-economic topics are here....equally important, jeremy also examines the softer--or less quantifiable--issues that have only recently gained the attention of some economic/business historians."--Albion


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  • ISBN-13: 9780198773764
  • Publisher: Oxford University Press
  • Publisher Imprint: Oxford University Press
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0198773765
  • Publisher Date: 01 Jan 1999
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Returnable: N


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