Enterprise and Management

by Aldcroft, Derek H.; Slaven, Anthony; Payne, Peter Lester

• ISBN13: 9781859281116
• ISBN10: 1859281117
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1995-09-01
• Publisher: Scolar Pr

Summary

This covers three of the areas of greatest current interest to British business historians - entrepreneurship and management, banking and finance, and enterprise in trade and industry. The essays have been commissioned specially from some of the best business historians in Britain. The volume emphasises the themes of enterprise and management as focused sharply in the evidence of business records.A broad introductory survey explores the development of business archives and business history, and this is followed by essays arranged in three sections. Part 1 debates the role and significance of the entrepreneur. Part 2 considers the development of banking and capital markets, and includes a review of 240 years of the Stock Exchange. Part 3 looks at business records, company and sector studies and at enterprise and policy issues.

Table of Contents

Introduction

Reclaiming the History of Business Communities

Enterprise and Management

Entrepreneurship in Theory and History

Entrepreneurs and Business Success and Business Failure in Scotland

The Missing Dimension: Management Education and training in Postwar Britain

Enterprise in Banking and Finance

Banking Entrepreneurship in North East Scotland, 1747-87

The City of Glasgow Bank and the Crisis of 1857

Banking Enterprise during the Window of Opportunity, 1958-61

The London and Provincial Stock Exchanges, 1799-1973: Separation, Integration, Rivalry, Unity

Enterprise in Industry and Trade: Contrasting Careers

The First Managers of The British Linen Company, 1745-1800

Management Style and Business Crises in the Aberdeen Textile Industry, 1825-1934

"Lo, ...Ninevah and Tyre": British Trading Anxieties and Official Reactions, 1870-1929

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