Information, mediation and institutional development : the rise of large-scale enterprise in British shipping, 1870-1919
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Information, mediation and institutional development : the rise of large-scale enterprise in British shipping, 1870-1919
Manchester University Press , Distributed exclusively in the USA and Canada by St. Martin's Press, c1995
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Based on the author's Ph.D. thesis, London School of Economics
Includes bibliographical references and index
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Description
This text explores the patterns of corporate growth, organizational change, and entrepreneurial succession within Britain's shipping industry between 1870 and 1914 when the industry dominated the trade routes of the world. It analyzes how one of Britain's major service industries retained its international competitiveness at a time when many of the older staple sectors lost their comparative advantages and when numerous firms in the "new industries" failed to develop strong capabilities. The author combines a theoretical approach with evidence drawn from a sample of 85 firms and 75 ship owners to analyse the scope, contents and durability of the factors that shaped institutional development in one of Britain's most successful industries of the pre-war era. The book aims to show that British shipowners successfully manipulated private infomation flows to sustain a rapid pace of growth using decentralized, network-based administrative frameworks.
Table of Contents
- Part 1: Environmental change, 1870-1914
- managing agents, new entry, and the early growth of steam shipping services, 1820-1990
- merchant sailing enterprise, 64ths, and the chartered companies - network foundations
- consolidation - 1880-1900
- recession and foreign competition, 1900-1910
- recovery, mergers, and the rise of groups, 1911-1920. Part 2: competitive strategies and tactics
- operational relations
- organizational development in large-scale shipping enterprise
- finance
- intermediation. Part 3: investment in management
- investment in entrepreneurs
- institutional continuity.
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