1st Edition

Management in Interwar Britain Continuity and Change

Edited By John F. Wilson Copyright 2026
260 Pages 8 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

260 Pages 8 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

Management in Interwar Britain engages in a debate about the quality of management and the extent of organisational innovation across British business in the interwar period. It has been prompted by the recent publication of several articles that offer a revisionist view of this debate, contradicting what has been the dominant narrative for many decades. The revisionist claims are based solely... Read more

1. British interwar management: the debate

John F. Wilson

 

2. The proprietorial theory of the firm and its consequences

John Quail

 

3. The commercial banking industry and its part in the emergence and consolidation of the corporate economy in Britain before 1940

Peter Wardley

 

4. Continuity and Change: Management in coal and light metals in interwar Scotland

Andrew Perchard

 

5. The Interwar UK Confectionery Industry

Vaughn White

 

6. The implementation of modern management knowledge in the Sheffield steel industry during the interwar years

Myrddin John Lewis and John Singleton

 

7. Innovation, productivity, and the diffusion of know-how in British large-scale retailing

Yamur Gunduz and Peter Scott

 

8. Know-how in the UK automobile sector between the wars

Peter M. Scott

 

9. Between two worlds: Shipbuilding firms in the interwar years

Christopher W. Miller

 

10. Continuity and change in interwar British management

John F. Wilson

Biography

John F. Wilson is Professor of Business History at Newcastle Business School, Northumbria University Newcastle, UK.