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 …

British Housebuilders is the first comprehensive account of the corporate history of the
twentieth-century speculative housebuilding industry-the firms thatsuppliedthose houses …

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 …

The United States overtook Britain in comparative aggregate productivity levels primarily as
a result of trends in services rather than trends in industry. This occurred during the transition …

The article analyzes a list of the hundred largest private and state-owned employers in the
Russian Empire in 1913. It explains the validity of sources underlying the data and …

Universidade Técnica de Lisboa Instituto Superior de Economia e Gestão Pedro José Marto
Neves Page 1 Universidade Técnica de Lisboa Instituto Superior de Economia e Gestão …

The construction sector has long been underrepresented in business historical studies and
debates. While an application of the “historical alternatives to mass production” approach …

Judging from the quality of the periodical literature, 2001 was a very productive year for
scholars dealing with the history of business in Great Britain. Grappling with a broad range …

This paper uses the experience of Britain and the United States to draw some lessons
concerning the role of services in overall productivity performance and the difficulties of …

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