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STEEL CITY
ENTREPRENEURSHIP, STRATEGY, AND TECHNOLOGY IN SHEFFIELD 1743-1993 |
| By: |
Geoffrey Tweedale |
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Hardback |
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£83.00 |
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£72.63 |
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£10.37 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0198288662 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780198288664 |
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| Publisher: |
OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS |
| Pub. date: |
20 July, 1995 |
| Pages: |
450 |
| Description: |
Why has British steelmaking declined? This, the first single-volume study of Sheffield steel, cutlery, and tools, charts the history of Sheffield steel from its origins in the 1740s to 1993, when it was no longer the major employer in the region. Drawing upon company records, contemporary documentation, and interviews with many businessmen and technologists, it provides an indispensable chronology and also relates business strategies to current debates aboutentrepreneurship and UK decline. |
| Synopsis: |
The book focuses on the historical evolution of firms, and industry leaders and their strategies. Sheffield's experience is then related to current historical and economic debates about industrial structure, entrepreneurship and UK decline. Sheffield is revealed (with some important qualifications) as a remarkably enduring and successful centre; and also a highly complex one, which cannot be fitted easily into present theories of mass production and entrepreneurial failure. |
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16 pp plates, line figures, maps, tables |
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UK |
| Imprint: |
Oxford University Press |
| Prizes: |
Winner of Winner of the Wadsworth Prize for Business History 1995. |
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