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Globally, consumer co-operation has experienced a difficult period
since the 1970s. Large scale failures in France, Germany and
Austria were accompanied by loss of market share in the UK
(including the failure of the Scottish Co-operative Wholesale
Society and its takeover by its English counterpart). Even in the
Nordic countries, where consumer co-operation has always been more
robust, new challenges from the non-co-operative sector had to be
confronted. How did co-operative organizations in different
countries cope with these challenges? What were the processes of
strategic renewal that they undertook? How successful were they?
These are the key questions that the collection will address,
culminating in an analysis by the editors of the effectiveness of
strategic renewal in the co-operative sector. This book is a study
of strategic renewal in the consumer co-operative sector, using
eleven international case-studies to demonstrate how the concept
has been applied over the last fifty years.
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The evolution of business history offers some radical ways forward
for a discipline which is rich in potential. This shortform book
offers an expert overview of how the field has relevance for
contemporary business studies as well as the social sciences more
broadly, as well as practitioners interested in historical
perspectives. This book not only provides a comprehensive review of
how the discipline of business history has evolved over the last
century, but it also lays out an agenda for the next decade.
Focusing specifically on the âthree pillarsâ of research,
teaching and practical impact, the authors have outlined how while
the first has flourished across many continents, the latter two are
struggling to overcome significant challenges associated with how
the discipline is perceived, especially in the social sciences. A
solution is proposed that would involve academics working more
closely with practitioners, thereby increasing the disciplineâs
credibility across key stakeholders. The work here presented
provides a concise and easily digestible overview of the topic
which will be of interest to scholars, researchers and advanced
students focusing on the evolution of business history and its
impact on the way the world conducts business today.
The evolution of business history offers some radical ways forward
for a discipline which is rich in potential. This shortform book
offers an expert overview of how the field has relevance for
contemporary business studies as well as the social sciences more
broadly, as well as practitioners interested in historical
perspectives. This book not only provides a comprehensive review of
how the discipline of business history has evolved over the last
century, but it also lays out an agenda for the next decade.
Focusing specifically on the 'three pillars' of research, teaching
and practical impact, the authors have outlined how while the first
has flourished across many continents, the latter two are
struggling to overcome significant challenges associated with how
the discipline is perceived, especially in the social sciences. A
solution is proposed that would involve academics working more
closely with practitioners, thereby increasing the discipline's
credibility across key stakeholders. The work here presented
provides a concise and easily digestible overview of the topic
which will be of interest to scholars, researchers and advanced
students focusing on the evolution of business history and its
impact on the way the world conducts business today.
A fascinating look at the rich history of business in 'the first
modern industrial district'. Essential reading for anyone
interested in the history of the Manchester area.
Shows the latest state of knowledge on the topic of industrial
clusters, with a particular focus on clustering in the UK, and
brings together a chronological coverage of the phenomenon.
Emphasises how knowledge is generated and disseminated across a
cluster, and whether these processes stimulated innovation and
consequently longer-term sustainability. Of interest to
international researchers, academics, and students in the fields of
business and management history, innovation, industrialisation, and
clusters.
Presents key peer-reviewed research selected by expert series
editors New analysis on the industrial history of delivering
utilities. Of interest to business and economic historians.
This shortform book presents key peer-reviewed research selected by
expert series editors and contextualised by new analysis from each
author on different forms of organising British industry. With
contributions on the strengths and weaknesses of the holding
company structure, government organisation of industry during war
time, the effects of forms of organisation on innovation, and
debates over the suitability of international comparisons, this
volume provides an array of fascinating insights into industrial
history. Of interest to business and economic historians, this
shortform book also provides analysis and illustrative case-studies
that will be valuable reading across the social sciences.
This shortform book presents key peer-reviewed research selected by
expert series editors and contextualised by new analysis from each
author on the subject of knowledge management in industrial
history. With contributions on knowledge management, knowledge
transfer, knowledge loss, knowledge creation, competition and
co-operation in producing skilled employees, and ownership
structures and their relation to knowledge management, this volume
provides an array of fascinating insights into industrial history.
Of interest to business and economic historians, this shortform
book also provides analysis and illustrative case-studies that will
be valuable reading across the social sciences.
This shortform book presents key peer-reviewed research selected by
expert series editors and contextualised by new analysis from each
author on how British industrial firms achieved a competitive
advantage. With contributions on industrial cartelisation,
organisational structure, the quality of British management,
marketing and trade marks, labour relations, and technological
innovation, this volume provides an array of fascinating insights
into industrial history. Of interest to business and economic
historians, this shortform book also provides analysis and
illustrative case-studies that will be valuable reading across the
social sciences.
Concise expert guide to important business research topic
Summarises the state of the art in available and emerging research
Includes references to key research publications in the field
This shortform book presents key peer-reviewed research selected by
expert series editors and contextualised by new analysis from each
author on government intervention and unexpected consequences in
industrial history. With contributions on organisational structure,
the quality of corporate governance, protectionism, the shareholder
value model, and economic nationalism, this volume provides an
array of fascinating insights into industrial history. Of interest
to business and economic historians, this shortform book also
provides analysis and illustrative case studies that will be
valuable reading across the social sciences.
This shortform book presents key peer-reviewed research on
industrial history. In selecting and contextualising this volume,
the editors address how the field of textile history has evolved.
Themes covered include entrepreneurial, technological and labour
history, whilst the book highlights the strategic and social
consequences of innovations in the history of this key UK sector.
Of interest to business and economic historians, this shortform
book also provides analysis and illustrative case-studies that will
be valuable reading across the social sciences.
This study of Ferranti in its last six years of a long history
provides a detailed exposition of the British and American
businessmen who combined to terminate one of the UK's leading
defence electronics firms. Involving action in the Middle East,
South Africa and Pakistan, as well as the UK and USA, this
highlights the precarious nature of international arms trading.
Highlighting the importance of regional and national differences in
industrial development, this book is a pioneering long term
comparison of the two regions of Lancashire and Kansai.
"Region and Strategy in Britain and Japan" is a long-term
comparison of industrial development in Manchester and Osaka,
together making a substantial contribution to our understanding of
the continuing importance of national and regional differences.
This book is written jointly by British and Japanese scholars who
are recognized authorities in their field, providing an innovative
and unique perspective. Chapters focus on big business,
electronics, shipbuilding and textiles. The resulting study sheds a
welcome new light on world economic history.
This shortform book presents key peer-reviewed research on
industrial history. In selecting and contextualising this volume,
the editors address how the field of textile history has evolved.
Themes covered include entrepreneurial, technological and labour
history, whilst the book highlights the strategic and social
consequences of innovations in the history of this key UK sector.
Of interest to business and economic historians, this shortform
book also provides analysis and illustrative case studies that will
be valuable reading across the social sciences.
Lyndall Urwick was the dominant figure in British management
between the late 1920s and the early 1960s. His writings and his
passion in pursuit of management as a scientific and systematic
activity rather than the rule-of-thumb approach to decision-making
all too prevalent in Britain exercised a huge influence on
management at the time; and ultimately management as we know it
today.
Urwick was greatly affected by his experience of the First World
War and at Rowntree's. He went on to become Director of the
International Management Institute between 1928-33, before forming
a very influential management consultancy, Urwick Orr and Partners,
which he chaired for the rest of his career. He was also deeply
involved with almost all the institutional developments in British
management up to the 1960s, including the Management Research
Groups, the Institute of Industrial Administration, the British
Institute of Management, the Administrative Staff College, and the
management education side of the Anglo-American Council on
Productivity.
In pursuit of what he called his 'mission at large', he gave
hundreds of talks in his lucid and charismatic style, many of which
were published as articles or booklets. These talks were not only
in Britain but in Australia after his emigration there in 1961, in
America, where he became the best-recognized foreign exponent of
management, and in a range of countries around the world. But he
will probably be best remembered for his writings, not only on
organization theory, where he is recognized as a great synthesizer
and leader in the classical school, but on a wide range of other
topics, including the history of management, leadership, marketing,
and management education and development. Truly he was a man of
many parts.
Management has always been part of human organization, but it is
only in the last two centuries or so that it has been the central
driver of economic activity, as companies have moved from family
firms to hugely complex, multinational corporations with many
layers of management.
The term management is commonly used in three ways: as a process or
activity; as a structure in any organization; and as a group or
class of people carrying out certain roles in an organization. This
book is the first detailed account of the evolution of management
in all three senses. The focus is mainly on the UK, but throughout
the broader question of why corporate management structures
developed so impressively in the USA, Germany and Japan is borne in
mind, while arguably little progress was made in this regards in
the UK.
Equally the authors consider why, given that management is now so
widely studied, so little careful research has been undertaken into
the evolution of the practice and the profession of management.
The book is divided into four sections. Part One provides An
Introduction to Management History; Part Two, Management and
Organization, explores the historical development through the 19th
and 20th centuries; Part Three, Managers in Context, looks at the
social and cultural context of management and managers; and Part
Four considers three key functional areas, labor, marketing and
accounting and financing.
This rich, detailed, and path-breaking book will be essential
reading for anyone wanting to understand the evolution of
management as we now understand it, whether academics, students or
managers themselves.
Management has always been part of human organization, but it is
only in the last two centuries or so that it has been the central
driver of economic activity, as companies have moved from family
firms to hugely complex, multinational corporations with many
layers of management. The term management is commonly used in three
ways: as a process or activity; as a structure in any organization;
and as a group or class of people carrying out certain roles in an
organization. This book is the first detailed account of the
evolution of management in all three senses. The focus is mainly on
the UK, but throughout the broader question of why corporate
management structures developed so impressively in the USA, Germany
and Japan is borne in mind, while arguably little progress was made
in this regards in the UK. Equally the authors consider why, given
that management is now so widely studied, so little careful
research has been undertaken into the evolution of the practice and
the profession of management. The book is divided into four
sections. Part One provides An Introduction to Management History;
Part Two, Management and Organization, explores the historical
development through the 19th and 20th centuries; Part Three,
Managers in Context, looks at the social and cultural context of
management and managers; and Part Four considers three key
functional areas, labour, marketing, and accounting and finance.
This rich, detailed, and path-breaking book will be essential
reading for anyone wanting to understand the evolution of
management as we now understand it, whether academics, students or
managers themselves.
Building Co-operation traces the development of The Co-operative
Group and its predecessor, the Co-operative Wholesale Society
(CWS), over the course of 150 years. Born from the efforts of the
Rochdale Pioneers and others who established successful consumer
co-operatives across Britain in the mid-nineteenth century, by the
1860s the proponents of the CWS were ready to pioneer a new effort:
a federation, democratically run and collectively owned, that would
enable co-operatives to become their own suppliers. From humble
origins, the CWS grew into one of Britain's largest businesses
within a generation, pioneering modern retailing and distribution
on a national scale, expanding into factory production and
financial services, and establishing an international supply
network that stretched across Europe, and beyond. Throughout the
late nineteenth century and well into the twentieth, co-operative
societies provided essential services to millions of members across
Britain, ranging from food and clothing to banking, insurance,
travel agency, pharmacy and even funeral services. However, in the
second half of the twentieth century co-operatives experienced a
protracted period of decline, facing a series of internal
structural challenges, fierce competition amongst food retailers,
and a rapidly-changing marketplace. By the turn of the twenty-first
century, when many commentators were ready to consign co-operatives
to the past, The Co-operative Group emerged with a revitalised
business model that has helped to re-invigorate the British
co-operative sector and bring new attention to the important role
of co-operative and mutual enterprises worldwide. Based on
extensive archival research, including many records available to
historians for the first time, Building Co-operation is the story
of a distinctive business model as it evolved over time. While
since the inauguration of the CWS in 1863 the commercial landscape
has changed nearly beyond recognition, the values at the heart of
The Co-operative Group have remained relevant to succeeding
generations, focusing on member benefits and a commitment to
ethical trading.
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