From the acclaimed author of Britain's War Machine and The Shock of the Old, a bold
reassessment of Britain's twentieth century. Itis usual to see the United Kingdom as an island …

Management has always been part of human organization, but it is only in the last two
centuries or so that it has been the central driver of economic activity, as companies have …

The rise of the British accountancy profession from the late nineteenth century to the present
day, and the world-wide success of its accountancy firms, were to a large extent based on …

This landmark research volume provides the first detailed history of entrepreneurship in
Britain from the nineteenth century to the present. Using a remarkable new database of more …

Während der fast 50 Jahre zwischen Reichsproklamation und Novemberrevolution
wandelte sich Deutschland vom rückständigen Agrarstaat zum wirtschaftlich modernen …

This study is based on a wide range of business sources as well as newspapers, journals,
novels and oral history, allowing Heller to put forward a new interpretation of working …

This title was first published in 2002: The history of management consulting in Britain is a
subject that has received little attention in the past in terms of research or publication. This …

The businesses of developed Europe—transporting freight by a more advantageous mix of
ships, trains, and horses—encountered logistic barriers to trade lower than those in the …

In the late 19th century, a relatively dense network was created among the large public
corporations. This corporate network is examined here for the period between 1896 and …

This article uses population censuses to provide the first consistent counts of the population
of business proprietors for 1891–1911. After appropriate adjustments for imperfect Census …