British Business

Author : R. P. T. Davenport-Hines
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521530583
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.8X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book British Business in Asia Since 1860 written by R. P. T. Davenport-Hines and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2003-10-30 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This 1989 book examines the experience of British business in Asia since 1860, with primary focus on the impact of British commerce in the region. Following an introduction by the editors, there are essays by leading specialist historians on British businesses in Iran, India, Thailand, Malaysia, China, Russian Asia and Japan.

Author : J. F. Wilson
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780719041334
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)

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Download or read book British Business History, 1720-1994 written by J. F. Wilson and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 1995-10-15 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first textbook that comprehensively covers the three centuries of British business history from 1720 to the present day. Wilson argues that company culture has been the most important component in the evolution of business organisations and management practices. The influence of business culture on firms' structure, sources of finance, and the background and training of senior managers is investigated to show its pivotal importance in determining business performance.

Author : Nicholas J. White
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134350325
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book British Business in Post-Colonial Malaysia, 1957-70 written by Nicholas J. White and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2004-08-02 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the limits of the idea of 'neo-colonialism' - the idea that in the period immediately after independence Malaya/Malaysia enjoyed only a 'pseudo-independence', largely because of the entrenched and dominant position of British business interests allied to indigenous elites. The author argues that, although British business did indeed have a strong position in Malaysia in this period, Malaysian politicians and administrators were able to utilise British business, which was relatively weak vis-a-vis the Malaysian state, for their own ends, at the same time as indigenous businesses and foreign, non-British competitors were gathering strength. In addition, despite the commitment of both Conservative and Labour governments in the UK to preserving British influence worldwide through the Commonwealth relationship, British firms in Malaysia received only limited support from the British post-imperial state.

Author : R.P.T. Davenport-Hines
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135778701
Total Pages : 136 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Enterprise, Management and Innovation in British Business, 1914-80 written by R.P.T. Davenport-Hines and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2005-06-28 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'A general introductory text on British business history', declared ProfessorDonald Coleman in an important public lecture published in 1987, 'has yet to bewritten'.1 This lacunae is extraordinary, given Britain's role as the birthplace ofthe Industrial Revolution and its possession, even in the late 1980s, of theworld's sixth largest Gross Domestic Product.2 It is even more odd given thatbusiness history in Britain is almost a 'sunrise' industry: every year severalscholarly company histories are published, although these volumes remainlargely unread by business people, business scholars and e.

Author : E. Motono
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1403932808
Total Pages : 234 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Conflict and Cooperation in Sino-British Business, 1860–1911 written by E. Motono and published by Springer. This book was released on 2000-05-04 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a study about the collapse of Chinese traditional commercial order in the late Qing period. It regards the process as an influence from the prevalence of pro-British Chinese commercial networks in the 1880s. Through the analysis of various Sino-British commercial conflicts after the Arrow war, this book reveals when and where such a commercial network was born and what impact it brought about on the Chinese society.

Author : Simon Milner
Publisher : Institute for Public Policy Research
ISBN 13 : 9781860300226
Total Pages : 92 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Could Finance Do More for British Business? written by Simon Milner and published by Institute for Public Policy Research. This book was released on 1996 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Neil Rollings
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 113946924X
Total Pages : 259 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book British Business in the Formative Years of European Integration, 1945–1973 written by Neil Rollings and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2007-12-10 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book questions conventional accounts of the history of European integration and British business. Integration accounts normally focus on the nation-state, while Neil Rollings focuses on business and its role in the development of European integration, which business historians have previously overlooked. Business provided a key link between economic integration, political integration, and the process of Europeanization. British businessmen perceived early on that European integration meant much more than the removal of tariffs and access to new markets. Indeed, British entry into the European community would alter the whole landscape of the European working environment. Consideration of European integration is revealed as a complex, relative, and dynamic issue, covering many issues such as competition policy, taxation, and company law. Based on extensive archival research, this book uses the case of business to emphasize the need to blend national histories with the history of European integration.

Author : Sheryllynne Haggerty
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
ISBN 13 : 1781387133
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Merely for Money? written by Sheryllynne Haggerty and published by Liverpool University Press. This book was released on 2012-05-15 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book argues that a business culture based on embedded socio-cultural norms was an important element in the success of the British-Atlantic economy 1750-1815.

Author : Brian R. Cheffins
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 9780199596393
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Corporate Ownership and Control written by Brian R. Cheffins and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2010 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Much discussion on corporate governance assumes companies are owned and controlled separately, yet this is not the norm worldwide. This book explores the foundations of separation in UK companies, asking how the company came to prominence and why and how the UK stock market came to be dominated by institutional shareholders.

Author : Geoffrey Jones
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191530468
Total Pages : 415 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Merchants to Multinationals written by Geoffrey Jones and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2002-03-07 with total page 415 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Merchants to Multinationals examines the evolution of multinational trading companies from the eighteenth century to the present day. During the Industrial Revolution, British merchants established overseas branches which became major trade intermediaries and subsequently engaged in foreign direct investment. Complex multinational business groups emerged controlling large investments in natural resources, processing, and services in Asia, Latin America, and Africa. While theories of the firm predict the demise over time of merchant firms, this book identifies the continued resilience of British trading companies despite the changing political and business environments of the twentieth century. Like Japanese trading companies, they 're-invented' themselves in successive generations. The competences of the trading companies resided in their information-gathering, relationship-building, human resource, and corporate governance systems. This book provides a new dimension to the literature on international business through the focus on multinational service firms and its evolutionary approach based on confidential business records.