'Big business before 1900' in M W Kirby & M B Rose (eds), Business Enterprise in Modern Britain from the Eighteenth to the Twentieth Century
Details:
- Author(s) Kirby, Maurice W
- Publication type Chapter
- Year published 1994
- Pages
- Publisher Routledge
- Place Published London
Topics:
- Name Big business
- Name Production of goods & services - methods & organisation
- Name Management practices
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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:
Chapter contributing to a textbook. Deals with the existence of very large, albeit very untypical, businesses from the early 18th century to the late 19th and the issues involved in their management. Explores: 1] nature and extent of large scale enterprise in agriculture, manufacturing and mining; 2] characteristics of 'monied' big business especially the Royal Exchange Assurance and East India Co; 3] the concept of subcontracting as a reaction to the size problem; 4] the emergence of the railway sector and large scale professional management