3i. Fifty years of investing in business
Details:
- Author(s) Coopey, Richard, & Donald Clarke
- Publication type Monograph
- Year published 1995
- Pages 459pp; illus
- Publisher Oxford University Press
- Place Published Oxford
Topics:
- Name Small businesses
- Name Finance of production & trade
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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:
Scholarly commissioned history. In two parts. The first traces the business from the 1940s to 1990s and its flotation. The second is contributed by a former senior manager and deals with the nature of the business. Has sections: Part 1: 'Identifying the gap - the origins of 3i'; 'Bridging the gap - 1945-60'; 'Establishing independence'; 'Developing the network - the 1960s'; 'Finance For Industry - the 1970s; 'Remaking the image'; 'Competition, expansion, and the enterprise culture'; 'Back to the core - the flotation imperative'; Part. 2: 'An insider's view - eight essays on aspects of 3i - Donald Clarke'; 'Inventing the wheel - 3i as innovator'; 'Investment capital for British industry - a failure of demand or supply?; 'Management style and strategy'; 'Diversification - the policy ellipse'; 'Investment capital versus venture capital'; 'Defining the business - 3i's tax case'; 'The international dimension - a global Macmillan Gap'; 'Doing well by doing good'; 'Postscript, 1991-95 by Ewen Macpherson'. Particular case studies referred to are British Caledonian Airways, Laura Ashley, Oxford Instruments