1st Edition
Personal Capitalism and Corporate Governance British Manufacturing in the First Half of the Twentieth Century
252 Pages
by
Routledge
250 Pages
by
Routledge
250 Pages
by
Routledge
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This book is specifically aimed at addressing a gap in the study of the evolution of corporate governance in Britain. In particular its key theme, the relationship between corporate governance and personal capitalism in British manufacturing in the first half of the twentieth century, provides the means for a systematic and critical examination of the dominant Chandlerian paradigm that the... Read more
Chapter 1 Introduction: Corporate Governance, Personal Capitalism, and British Manufacturing in the First Half of the Twentieth Century; Chapter 2 Raleigh and the Bowdens: Personal Capitalism and Business Performance, 1887–1939; Chapter 3 Hadfields Ltd: Personal Capitalism, Boardroom Culture and Corporate Governance; Chapter 4 Losing Trust: The BSA Board and Corporate Governance, 1900–1939; Chapter 5 Alfred Herbert Ltd: The Individualistic Element in Corporate Governance and the Legacy of Personal Control; Chapter 6 The Relationship between Companies and their Shareholders: Greenwood & Batley and Hadfields;
Biography
Dr Myrddin John Lewis and Professor Roger Lloyd-Jones teach at Sheffield Hallam University, UK. Dr Mark David Matthews is a former Leverhulme research assistant at Sheffield Hallam University. Professor Josephine Maltby teaches at the University of York, UK.
'This book offers excellent examples of source-based business history...' Enterprise and Society '... extremely interesting insights into problems of corporate governance and the travails of shareholders in the first half of the twentieth century, with particularly telling illustrations from the business archives.' Twentieth Century British History
