The Growth and Dissolution of a Large- Scale Business Enterprise

The Growth and Dissolution of a Large- Scale Business Enterprise

Author: Gordon Boyce

Publisher: Liverpool University Press

Published: 2017-10-18

Total Pages: 420

ISBN-13: 1786948869

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This book is an in-depth case study of the Furness Withy and Co Shipping Group, which operated both tramp and liner services and was one of the five major British shipping groups of the early twentieth century. It demonstrates how British shipowners of this period generated success by exploring Christopher Furness’ career in relation to the social, political, and cultural currents during a time of tremendous shipping growth in Britain and the establishment of some of the largest shipping firms in the world. It approaches the study from three angles. The first analyses how the Furness Group expanded its shipping activities and became involved with the industrial sector. The second illustrates the organisational and financial structure of the enterprise. Finally, the Group’s leadership and entrepreneurship is scrutinised and placed within the wider context of twentieth century British business. The case study begins in 1870, with an introduction explaining how Christopher Furness came to join the family company, Thomas Furness and Co. in order develop services, expand, and instigate the changes and mergers that brought the Furness Group into existence. There are thirteen chronologically presented chapters, a bibliography, and seven appendices of data including an ownership timeline, tonnage statistics, acquisitions, a list of maritime associates, and a timeline of Christopher Furness’ life. The book concludes in 1919 with the de-merging of the Furness Group’s shipping and industrial holdings, the resignation of the Furness family from the company’s board, the sale of their shares, and the move into managing the firm’s industrial interests.


The Production of Difference

The Production of Difference

Author: David R. Roediger

Publisher: OUP USA

Published: 2012-05-31

Total Pages: 297

ISBN-13: 0199739757

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Centering on race and empire, this book revolutionizes the history of management. From slave management to U.S. managers functioning as transnational experts on managing diversity, it shows how "modern management" was made at the margins. Even in "scientific" management, playing races against each other remained a hallmark of managerial strategy.


The American Steel Industry, 1850–1970

The American Steel Industry, 1850–1970

Author: Kenneth Warren

Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press

Published: 2014-02-20

Total Pages: 352

ISBN-13: 0822978733

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A richly detailed account of the American steel industry from its beginnings until 1970, when its long period of international leadership was challenged, this book interprets steel from viewpoints of historical and economic geography. It considers both physical factors, such as resouces, and human factors such as market, organization, and governmental policy. In major discussions of the east coast, Pittsburgh, the Ohio Valley, the Great Lakes, the South and the West, Warren analyzes the location and relocation of steel plants over 120 years. He explains the influence on location of a variety of factors: The accessibility of resources, the cost of transportation, the existence of specialized markets, and the availability of entrepreneurial skills, capital, and labor. He also evaluates the role of management in the development of the industry, through an analysis of individual companies, including Bethlehem, Carnegie, United States Steel, Kaiser, Inland, Jones and Laughlin, and Youngstown Sheet and Tube. Warren examines the influence exerted on the industry by complex technological changes and weighs their significance against market forces and the supply of natural resources. In the production process alone, the industry changed from pig iron to steel; from charcoal to anthracite; to bituminous coking coal; and from the widespread use of low-grade ore from the eastern United States, to the high quality but localized deposits of the Upper Great Lakes, to imported ores. Unlike other industrialized nations, the United States has undergone major geographical shifts in steel consumption since the 1850s. As the American population moved south and west into new territory, steel followed. Warren concludes that these radical alterations in the distribution and demand were the decisive force in the location of steel production.


Nonunion Employee Representation

Nonunion Employee Representation

Author: Bruce E. Kaufman

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2016-07-08

Total Pages: 591

ISBN-13: 1315501201

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Examines the history, contemporary practice, and policy issues of non-union employee representation in the USA and Canada. The text encompasses many organizational devices that are organized for the purposes of representing employees on a range of production, quality, and employment issues.


Organisational Capability and Competitive Advantage

Organisational Capability and Competitive Advantage

Author: Charles Harvey

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2013-10-31

Total Pages: 215

ISBN-13: 1135192782

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First Published in 1992. This is a collection of eight articles covering different elements of organisational capability and competitive advantage. The areas included are managerial enterprise, Corporate Strategy and accounting, the influence of the Trade Mark, a look at the marketing case study of the Ferranti Group, history of Japan's Post-war steel industry, American graduate business schools and responses to market for corporate control in 1950s Britain.


Minerals Yearbook

Minerals Yearbook

Author: Geological Survey

Publisher: U.S. Government Printing Office

Published: 2016-11-15

Total Pages: 1078

ISBN-13: 9781411337077

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This volume, covering metals and minerals, contains chapters on approximately 90 commodities. In addition, this volume has chapters on mining and quarrying trends and on statistical surveying methods used by Minerals Information, plus a statistical summary.


European Competition Law

European Competition Law

Author: Michel Waelbroeck

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2022-03-28

Total Pages: 1102

ISBN-13: 9004505784

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This prodigious resource responds superbly to the need for a detailed and comprehensive analysis of European competition law that covers theory and practice, public and private enterprise, rules and procedures, disputes and jurisprudence. With numerous case studies from the entire history of the EC, European Community Law analyzes all the EC Treaty provisions relating to competition, as well as their superstructure of regulations and directives. Published under the Transnational Publishers imprint.


EU Administrative Law

EU Administrative Law

Author: Paul Craig

Publisher: OUP Oxford

Published: 2012-03-22

Total Pages: 1146

ISBN-13: 0191629324

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The second edition of EU Administrative Law provides comprehensive coverage of the administrative system in the EU and the principles of judicial review that apply in this area. The chapters in the first half of the book deal with all the principal variants of the EU administrative regime. Thus there are chapters dealing with the history and taxonomy of the EU administrative regime; direct administration; shared administration; Comitology; agencies; social partners and the open method of coordination. The coverage throughout focuses on the legal regime that governs the particular form of administration and broader issues of accountability, drawing on literature from political science as well as law. The focus in the second part of the book shifts to the principles of judicial review. There are detailed chapters covering all principles of judicial review and the discussion of the law throughout is analytical and contextual. The discussion in this part of the book begins with a chapter that considers the principles that have informed the development of EU judicial review. This is followed by a chapter dealing with the judicial system and the way in which reform could impact on the subject matter of the book. There are then chapters dealing with competence; access; transparency; process; law, fact and discretion; rights; equality; legitimate expectations; two chapters on proportionality; the precautionary principle; two chapters on remedies; and the ombudsman. The book paints a comprehensive picture of administrative law as it exists in the EU today.