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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      September 2009
      November 2000
      ISBN:
      9780511522796
      9780521782555
      9780521025140
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511522796
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.71kg, 366 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.549kg, 368 Pages
      • Subjects:
      American History: General Interest, Area Studies, American Studies, British History after 1450, History, Regional History after 1500
      Series:
      Cambridge Studies in Modern Economic History (8)
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    Subjects:
    American History: General Interest, Area Studies, American Studies, British History after 1450, History, Regional History after 1500
    Series:
    Cambridge Studies in Modern Economic History (8)
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    This book explores the long-term forces shaping business attitudes in the British and American cotton industries from the eighteenth to the twentieth century. Mary Rose traces social, political and developmental differences from the early stages of industrialization. She demonstrates how firms become embedded in networks, and evolve according to business values and strategies. The book examines local and regional networks, the changing competitive environment, community characteristics and national differences. Rose's findings challenge traditional views with new evidence that the character and achievements of each industry uniquely reflect local circumstances and historical experience. This is a critical synthesis of the multidisciplinary literature on the cotton textile industries of two major industrial nations and a study of the changing forces influencing decision making. An important contribution to comparative business history, this book will be of interest to graduates and scholars in all areas of business and economic history.

    Reviews

    ‘Firms, Networks and Business Values is an important book. Scholars interested in business and technological change will find this account essential.’

    Source: Business History

    ‘… a carefully argued and meticulously researched comparative study of the cotton industries of Great Britain and the USA. … The book is highly recommended. It will be of interest to both those concerned with the local and regional history of the cotton industry and those more interested in the broader issues of the course of modern industrial development.’

    Source: Northern History

    ‘This book explains industrial evolution in terms of divergence rather than of convergence. Its unique comparative perspective confers upon its great value and holds forth to other scholars a model for emulation.’

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