'Banking enterprise during the window of opportunity, 1958-61' in D H Aldcroft & A Slaven (eds), Enterprise and Management. Essays in honour of Peter L Payne
Details:
- Author(s) Ross, Duncan M
- Publication type Chapter
- Year published 1995
- Pages pp171-97
- Publisher Scolar Press
- Place Published Aldershot
Topics:
- Name Innovation, diffusion & invention, inc technology & products
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Library:
- Name British Library
- City London
- County Greater London
- Country England
- Postcode NW1 2DB
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Notes:
Considers the nature of innovation in the banking industry and the environmental factors which shaped the attitudes and performance of British banks in the 1950s. Deal in detail with two innovations during the period of minimum [regulatory] controls, 1958-61, viz: 'personal cheque accounts' and 'personal loans' especially for consumerables. These are taken as revealing a commitment to business expansion and the beginnings of a shift in culture and attitude