British Cotton Textiles: Maturity and Decline examines the relationship of the Lancashire cotton textiles industry with its suppliers of capital. It shows how capital enabled and constrained investment, and explores the strategic responses to changing international conditions at important stages of the industry's history and protracted
British Cotton Textiles: Maturity and Decline examines the relationship of the Lancashire cotton textiles industry with its suppliers of capital. It shows how capital enabled and constrained investment, and explores the strategic responses to changing international conditions at important stages of the industry's history and protracted
David Higgins is Professor in Accounting and Finance at Newcastle University, UK. He has published widely in the field of business history, with particular reference to staple industries, corporate performance, and the protection of intellectual property. He has served on the editorial board, and acted as associate editor, of the journal Business History. Steven Toms is Professor of Accounting at Leeds University, UK. He has published extensively in the field of business history, focusing on organisations' accounting and financial performance, with a particular interest in the history of cotton textiles. He is a former editor of the journal Business History and an editorial board member of the Accounting History Review (formerly Accounting, Business and Financial History).
Inhaltsangabe
Introduction - The decline of the British cotton textile industry: A review and reinterpretation 1. Windows of Opportunity in the Textile Industry: The Business Strategies of Lancashire Entrepreneurs, 1880-1914 2. Producer co-operatives and economic efficiency: Evidence from the nineteenth-century cotton textile industry 3. Financial constraints on economic growth: profits, capital accumulation and the development of the Lancashire cotton-spinning industry, 1885-1914 4. Firm structure and financial performance: the Lancashire textile industry, c.1884-c.1960 5. Financial distress, corporate borrowing, and industrial decline: the Lancashire cotton spinning industry, 1918-38 6. Ownership, financial strategy and performance: the Lancashire cotton textile industry, 1918-1938 7. Public Subsidy and Private Divestment: The Lancashire Cotton Textile Industry, c.1950-c.1965 8. Financial Institutions and Corporate Strategy: David Alliance and the Transformation of British Textiles, c.1950-c.1990 Epilogue - Survival strategies in textiles
Introduction - The decline of the British cotton textile industry: A review and reinterpretation 1. Windows of Opportunity in the Textile Industry: The Business Strategies of Lancashire Entrepreneurs, 1880-1914 2. Producer co-operatives and economic efficiency: Evidence from the nineteenth-century cotton textile industry 3. Financial constraints on economic growth: profits, capital accumulation and the development of the Lancashire cotton-spinning industry, 1885-1914 4. Firm structure and financial performance: the Lancashire textile industry, c.1884-c.1960 5. Financial distress, corporate borrowing, and industrial decline: the Lancashire cotton spinning industry, 1918-38 6. Ownership, financial strategy and performance: the Lancashire cotton textile industry, 1918-1938 7. Public Subsidy and Private Divestment: The Lancashire Cotton Textile Industry, c.1950-c.1965 8. Financial Institutions and Corporate Strategy: David Alliance and the Transformation of British Textiles, c.1950-c.1990 Epilogue - Survival strategies in textiles
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