Building Co-operation. A business history of the Co-operative Group, 1863-2013
Details:
- Author(s) Wilson, John F, Anthony Webster & Rachael Vorberg-Rugh
- Publication type Monograph
- Year published 2013
- Pages 440pp; illus
- Publisher Oxford University Press
- Place Published Oxford
Topics:
- Name Co-operation & co-operative movement
- Name Business/Industry failure, decline, lack of success, etc: decline of businesses
- Name Turnarounds
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Library:
- Name British Library
- City London
- County Greater London
- Country England
- Postcode NW1 2DB
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Notes:
Provides a scholarly history of the Co-operative Wholesale Society, later the Co-operative Group, in which the greater emphasis is on the post 1939 period. Structure in two parts, viz: Part 1] 'Rise and reign' [pp23-202]; Part 2] Retreat and renaissance' [pp205-397]. Part 1 comprises: 'The roots and rise of British co-operation, c1780-1863'; 'The rise of the CWS, 1863-to 1890 - the birth and leadership of a corporate giant?'; 'The age of expansion, 1890-1914'; 'War and peace, 1914-38'. Part 2 comprises: 'Co-'operation in retreat - war and decline, 1939-73'; 'Adapting the business model, 1973-90'; 'The watershed decade' [1990s]; ''Falling towards the centre' - a twenty first century renaissance'