'Ownership, organization and management. British business and the branded consumer goods industries' in Y Cassis et al (eds), Management and Business in Britain and France. The age of the corporate economy

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Author(s) Fitzgerald, Robert
Publication type Chapter
Year published 1995
Pages pp31-51
Publisher Clarendon Press
Place Published Oxford

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Name Managerial capitalism
Name Family & personal capitalism

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Name British Library
City London
County Greater London
Country England
Postcode NW1 2DB
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Explores Chandlerian explanations of British business decline through examination of the experiences of the British branded consumer goods sector, notably the firms of Cadbury and Rowntree. Has sections: 'Managerial enterprise and British failure'; 'Branded goods and critical success factors'; 'Family enterprise and the case of Cadbury'; 'Rowntree and exemplary practice'; 'The managerial revolution in branded goods'