'Business networks, social habits and the evolution of a regional industrial cluster. Coventry, 1880s-1930s' in J Wilson & A Popp (eds), Industrial Clusters and Regional Business Networks in England, 1750-1970
Details:
- Author(s) Lloyd-Jones, Roger, & Myrddin J Lewis
- Publication type Chapter
- Year published 2003
- Pages pp229-50
- Publisher Ashgate Publishing
- Place Published Aldershot
Topics:
- Name Business & related networks, exc mercantile networks
- Name Regional & locational issues
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Library:
- Name British Library
- City London
- County Greater London
- Country England
- Postcode NW1 2DB
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Notes:
Explores the emergence and evolution of business networks among an industrial cluster of firms in Coventry. In the late 19th century the district evolved into a cluster of interconnected industries locked together by common products, technologies and markets. Of importance was the development within this of business networks based on 'institutional habits' characterised by informality and transcending economic transactions. Focuses especially on the particular role of Alfred Herbert