Management Strategy and Business Development: An Historical and Comparative Study

Front Matter....Pages i-xi
Introduction: Business Development and Economic Structure in Britain since 1880....Pages 1-19
Front Matter....Pages 21-21
The Development of Modern Management Structure in the US and UK....Pages 23-51
The Chandler Thesis—Some General Observations....Pages 52-70
Front Matter....Pages 71-71
Strategy and Structure in the UK Tobacco Industry....Pages 73-84
A Family Firm becomes a Public Company: Changes at Pilkington Brothers Limited in the Interwar Years....Pages 85-94
Strategy and Structure at Boots the Chemists....Pages 95-107
Personality, Strategy and Structure: some Consequences of Strong Minds....Pages 108-129
The Early Management Organisation of British Petroleum and Sir John Cadman....Pages 130-147
Front Matter....Pages 149-149
Institutional Response to Economic Growth: Capital Markets in Britain to 1914....Pages 151-183
Strategy and Structure in the Manufacturing Sector....Pages 184-202
The Strategy of Sales Expansion in the British Electricity Supply Industry between the Wars....Pages 203-212
Corporate Evolution in the Service Industries....Pages 213-234
Front Matter....Pages 235-235
Directions for Future Research....Pages 237-258
Back Matter....Pages 259-267