British Business History, 17201994

Part 1 Business history - an introduction: aims and definitions; the Harvard school; modelling business evolution; business history and economic theory; conclusion. Part 2 The emergence of modern business, 1720-1870: meeting the organisational challenges; operational management - labour recruitment and control; the utilities and professional management; business and long-term finance; liquidity and the financial environment; British business by mid-century. Part 3 Big business abroad up to 1914: American managerial capitalism; the German case - "Co-operative Managerial Capitalism"?; Japanese business and the collective ideal; a typology for large-scale business. Part 4 British industrial capitalism under pressure, 1870-1914: the market-cum-technological environment; attitudes towards combination; a reawakening?; the business culture and its managerial impact; business finance up to 1914; British business by 1914. Part 5 Rationalisation and corporatism, 1914-1945: business abroad and the multidivisional; the "Rationalisation Movement", mergers and the business culture; "Scientific Management" and British workshop practices; the rise of a corporate economy; business by the 1940s. Part 6 Managerial capitalism - evolution and impact, 1945-94: "Finance Capital" and relations with the city; mergers, take-over bids and managerial capitalism; the dynamics of British managerial capitalism; a "Managerial Revolution"?; business into the 1990s.