P Sargant Florence

The Logic of British and American Industry

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Summarizing the facts about the prevailing sizes of industrial firms or plants and the patterns of industrial location in Britain and America. It also interprets the facts in basic terms such as technical requirements and consumer habits.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
• Seitenzahl: 394
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. Dezember 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 458g
• ISBN-13: 9781138861619
• ISBN-10: 1138861618
• Artikelnr.: 42486050

Autorenporträt

P. Sargant Florence

Inhaltsangabe

Preface 1. The Structural Approach 1. The Question 'Who?' As A Reliable
Starting Point 2. The Technical Background 3. The Social Structure of
Industry 4. The Size Distribution of Plants And Firms 5. Patterns of
Industrial Location 6. Forms and Extent of Integration 2. Logic and Fact of
Industrial Structure 1. The Meaning, Mechanism and Measures of Efficiency
2. Efficiency of the Large Firm of Varying Pattern, The Survival of the
Small Firm 3. Conditions of Efficiency of Large and Small Plants 4. The
Inefficiency and Efficiency of Integration 5. The Logic of Localization and
Dispersion 6. Agreement and Divergence of Logic & Fact, Manufacturing &
Other Industries 3. The Relations of Industry and Consumer 1. Planned and
Free Consumption, The Costs of Distribution 2. The Logic and Illogic of
Free Consumption 3. The Vagaries of Free Production, Design and
Distribution For Free Consumption 4. Forecasting and Market Research 5.
Competition and Combination, Sales Pressure and Advertising 6. Monopolistic
Structure and Theory 7. Detecting Monopoly 4. Relations Within The Modern
Firm, Management and Top Government 1. The Trend of Investment and
Employment, Overhead Costs 2. Evolution of Specialized Management 3. Logic
of Hierarchical Delegation 4. Logic of Functional Delegation 5. Logic of
Line-And-Staff Delegation 6. The Core of Top Government 7. The Question Who
Governs At The Core, And Why: The Next Three Chapters 5. Government of Free
Enterprise Capitalism 1. Growth of the Corporation and Joint Stock Company
2. The Shareholders' Actual Part In Government. Law and Reality 3.
Government By Bloc-Holder 4. Government By Director or Executive 5.
Interests, Personalities and Company Policies 6. Nationalization,
Co-Operation And State Control 1. Why Alternatives To Capitalist Government
of Industry? 2. Britain's Mixed Economy 3. The Government of Nationalized
Industries 4. Government By Consumers' Co-Operation 5. The Tests of Meeting
Needs, Consumers' Sovereignty and Economic Democracy 6. Comparative
Efficiency, Stability and Progress 7. Summary: Overall State Planning and
Control 7. The Stimulus To Labour, Investment And Enterprise 1. Labour
Relations In The Larger Plant and Firm 2. The Stimulus to Invest: The
Outsider Investor 3. The Stimulus to Large-Scale Enterprise 4. Types of
Leader in Large-Scale Business Government 5. The Short and Long-Run Supply
Price of Leadership 6. Recruitment and Education For Industrial Government
8. Summary & Conclusions 1. Summary of Findings 2. Summary of Research
Methods 3. Some Practical Conclusions