Service Industries. Strategy, structure and financial performance

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Scholarly work. Examines strategic and structural development and associated financial performance of British service industries, c1950-75, 'correlating these with the firms' financial performance. Based on a research study 'undertaken to investigate the strategy, structure and financial performance of each of the 100 largest service industry corporations in the United Kingdom, 1950-75'. Has chapters: 'Analysing the post industrial society', placing service sector in the context of the British economy; 'Strategy, structure and financial performance' of service industries, looking at aggregated findings to outline strategy, structure and financial performance by category and variables impacting on them; 'New strategies in the City' - clearing banks, merchant banks; 'The slowly changing world of insurance'; 'Strategies for end of an empire'- overseas trading companies, commodity traders, colonial shipping lines, British overseas banks; 'Rise of property and leisure' - property companies, leisure corporations; 'Families and formulae for retail distribution' - food and non food companies; 'The transport industries - strategy, structure and political intervention - nationalised air transport industry, nationalised land-based transport industry; 'The state monopolies' - Electricity supply industry, Gas industry, Post Office; 'The process of strategic and structural change'