Smith & Nephew in the Health Care Industry
Details:
- Author(s) Foreman-Peck, James
- Publication type Monograph
- Year published 1995
- Pages 269pp; illus
- Publisher Edward Elgar
- Place Published Aldershot
Topics:
- Name Research & development inc operational research
- Name Multinational cos exc free standing & general trading cos
- Name Family & personal capitalism
- Name Managerial capitalism
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Library:
- Name British Library
- City London
- County Greater London
- Country England
- Postcode NW1 2DB
- Visit British Library's website
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Notes:
Scholarly commissioned history. Chapters include: 'Pharmacy business in Hull, 1856-96'; 'Nineteenth century origins - family enterprise in Birmingham and Lancashire'; 'Development of the health care market, 1850-1939'; 'Growth and diversification - Elastoplast, Gypsona and Lilia, 1896-1939'; 'Strategy and structure between the world wars'; 'The health care environment since 1940'; 'Health care and cosmetics'; 'Textile developments'; 'Research, pharmaceuticals and plastics'; 'Textile developments'; 'Research, pharmaceuticals and plastics'; 'Smith & Nephew overseas, 1906-80'; 'Finance, management and philanthropy'; 'Globalisation in the 1980s'. Also has chronology. Has Smith family tree descending from Horatio Nelson Smith, 1798-1879