Business Policies in the Making : Three Steel Companies Compared

ISBN-13: 9781138778801 / Angielski / Twarda / 2014 / 254 str.

Jonathan Boswell

Opis

This study investigates and compares three leading firms in the British iron and steel industry between 1914 and 1939, analysing their strategies, boardroom politics, and their responses to the problems posed by the Great War and by the vicissitudes of the 1920s and 1930s.

Spis treści

Foreword;  1. Management: trade-offs, biases and phases  2. Management: iron and steel  3. Exuberance and caution  4. Miseries and grandeurs of recession  5. The managerial watershed  6. Mergers and investment, liaisons and wars  7. Efficiency and organisation building  8. Labour and local community problems  9. Relationships with public policies and government  10. Conclusions;  Source material;  Index

O autorze

Boswell, Jonathan