Shipping Enterprise and Management, 1830-1939. Harrisons of Liverpool
Details:
- Author(s) Hyde, Francis E, with J R Harris & A M Bourn
- Publication type Monograph
- Year published 1967
- Pages 208pp; illus
- Publisher Liverpool University Press
- Place Published Liverpool
Topics:
- Name Competition, collusion, monopoly & cartels inc competition policy & regulation
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Library:
- Name British Library
- City London
- County Greater London
- Country England
- Postcode NW1 2DB
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Notes:
Scholarly commissioned account of a leading Liverpool shipping business providing an analysis of functions, activities, etc, ahead of a description of development in a purposeful exercise in applying the techniques of early business history. Structured in three sections: 1] 'Creation of a shipping line, 1830-1910' - 'The patterns of partnership, 1830-84' / 'The organization of the oceanic trades - New Orleans and Calcutta' / 'The organisation of the oceanic trades - West Indies, Mexico and Brazil'; 2] 'Expansion, competition and financial organization' - 'Conference agreements and freight rates - the Indian trade' / 'Competition, conferences and freight rates - the South African trade' / 'Finance and policy, 1885-1914'; 3] 'Management and the allocation of resources' - 'Decline and growth in the trades, 1919-29' / 'Decision taking in years of fluctuation and depression' / 'The allocation of resources and the strength of management'. Extensive appendices: 1] Fleet tonnage and purchase price, 1884-1939; 2]Statement of source and application of funds, 1885-1939; 3] Balance sheet summary, 1884-1939