Business in Britain in the twentieth century / edited by Richard Coopey, Peter Lyth.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction: British Business in the Twentieth Century: What Sort of Decline, What Sort of 'Renaissance'? / Richard Coopey and Peter Lyth -- 1. Strategic Games, Scale, and Efficiency, or Chandler goes to Hollywood / Leslie Hannah -- 2. Industrial Policy in Twentieth Century Britain / Geoffrey Owen -- 3. Business in the Regions: From 'Old' Districts to 'New' Clusters? / Andy Popp and John Wilson -- 4. Elites, Entrepreneurs, and British Business in the Twentieth Century / Youssef Cassis -- 5. Invisible Entrepreneurs? Women and Business in Twentieth Century Britain / Katrina Honeyman -- 6. From a Solution to a Problem? Overseas Multinationals in Britain during Economic Decline and Renaissance / Peter Scott -- 7. British Management since 1945: 'Renaissance' and Inertia, Illusions and Realities / Nick Tiratsoo -- 8. Not 'Decline and Revival': An Alternative Narrative on British Post-War Productivity / Jim Tomlinson -- 9. Marketing Management in Britain: What Is the Evidence for 'Failure'? / Robert Fitzgerald -- 10. British Retail Banking in the Twentieth Century: Decline and Renaissance in Industrial Lending / Lucy Newton -- 11. The Decline and Renewal of British Multinational Banking / Geoffrey Jones and Lucy Newton -- 12. Back to the Future: The Aircraft and IT Industries in Britain since / Richard Coopey and Peter Lyth -- 13. Industrial Research and the Employment of Scientists in British Industry before the 1970s / Sally Horrocks -- 14. Increasing Value? Modern British Retailing in the Late Twentieth Century / Carlo Morelli -- 15. Predicting, Providing, Sustaining, Integrating? British Transport Policy since / Mike Anson and Gerald Crompton -- 16. The Film Industry in Twentieth Century Britain: Consumption Patterns, Government Regulation, and Firm Strategy / Peter Miskell -- 17. British Sport Transformed: Sport, Business, and the Media since / Dilwyn Porter -- 18. Ethics, Religion, and Business in Twentieth Century Britain / David J. Jeremy.

"This collection of fresh, incisive scholarship, by some of the leading business historians, critically examines the nature of economic recovery in Britain in recent years. Covering the key issues for business history in this period, the book confronts the traditional literature on conclusions of relative decline, and monocausal, simplistic explanations. It provides an impressive range of studies forming a platform for a new debate on the nature of British business in the 20th century. Themes include productivity, management, research and development, marketing, regional clusters and networks, industrial policy, the use of technology, and gender. Sector studies include newer, post-war hopefuls and successes including: * aerospace, * IT, * retail, * banking, * overseas investment, * the creative industries. The book demonstrates that our understanding of the historic strengths and weaknesses of business in Britain, and the shifting balance between sectors of the economy, has until now been poorly understood, and that British business history needs a fundamental reappraisal."--Publisher's website.

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