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Informationen zum Autor K. A Tucker Zusammenfassung This selection of readings demonstrates the use of both descriptive analysis and quantitative methods in the study of business records. The emphasis, however, is on the role of various quantitative approaches. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction Part 1: Aims and Methods in Business History 1. Economic Theory and Business History 2. Business History and the Theory of the Growth of the Firm 3. Business History: Some Proposals for Aims and Methodology Part 2: Entrepreneurs, The Firm and Industrial Structure 5. The Govan Collieries 1804–1805 6. The Productivity of Capital in the Lancashire Cotton Industry During the Nineteenth Century 7. Factory Discipline in the Industrial Revolution 8. The Profitability of Consett Iron Company before 1914 9. James Nasmyth and the Early Growth of Mechanical Engineering 10. Vertical Integration in American Manufacturing, 1899–1948 11. The Growth of Competition among the Standard Oil Companies in the United States, 1911–1961 12. Government Contracting, Competition and Growth in the Heavy Woollen Industry 13. The Growth Strategies of Southern Railroads, 1865–1893 14. The Merchant as Catalyst: Financing Economic Growth 15. What Price Style? The Fabric Advisory Function of the Dry Goods Commission Merchant, 1850–1880 16. Accounting and The Rise of Capitalism: Further Notes on a Theme by Sombart 17. Early Cost Accounting for Internal Management Control 18. An Early Victorian Business Forecaster in The Woollen Industry 19. A Manchester Merchant and His Schedules of Supply and Demand 20. The Social Organisation of Credit in a West African Cattle Market Part 3: Special Appendices Author Index General Index
