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Business Policies in the Making (Routledge Revivals) - Three Steel Companies Compared (Paperback)
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Business Policies in the Making (Routledge Revivals) - Three Steel Companies Compared (Paperback)
Series: Routledge Revivals
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First published in 1983, this study investigates and compares three
leading firms in the British iron and steel industry between 1914
and 1939, analysing their strategies, boardroom politics, and their
responses to the problems posed by the Great War and by the
vicissitudes of the 1920s and '30s. Jonathan Boswell illuminates
certain issues that are of perennial importance for students of
business: rationality and 'error' in decision-making, ethics,
centralisation versus decentralisation, and the question of
cyclical phases. The central theme throughout is the pursuit of
three partly conflicting objectives: growth, efficiency and social
action. The trade-offs between these three pursuits are used to
examine significant contrasts in corporate strategies and
behaviour, including towards government and public opinion.
Boswell's rejection of economic determinism; his insistence that
managerial influences fall into definable long-run patterns; and
his theses on managerial specialisation and long-term policy biases
confront fundamental issues for theories of the firm.
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