1st Edition
Business Policies in the Making (Routledge Revivals) Three Steel Companies Compared
By Jonathan Boswell
Copyright 1983
254 Pages
by
Routledge
254 Pages
by
Routledge
254 Pages
by
Routledge
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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... Read more
Foreword; 1. Management: trade-offs, biases and phases 2. Management: iron and steel 3. Exuberance and caution 4. Miseries and grandeurs of recession 5. The managerial watershed 6. Mergers and investment, liaisons and wars 7. Efficiency and organisation building 8. Labour and local community problems 9. Relationships with public policies and government 10. Conclusions; Source material; Index
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Boswell, Jonathan
