Kenricks in Hardware. A family business, 1791-1966
Details:
- Author(s) Church, Roy
- Publication type Monograph
- Year published 1969
- Pages 340pp; illus
- Publisher David & Charles
- Place Published Newton Abbot
Topics:
- Name Family & personal capitalism
- Name Small businesses
- Name Marketing inc brand & product development, distribution, etc
- Name Competition, collusion, monopoly & cartels inc competition policy & regulation
- Name Business interest representation & co-operation
- Name Innovation, diffusion & invention, inc technology & products
- Name Business/Industry failure, decline, lack of success, etc: decline of industries
- Name Worker / employee & industrial relations inc conflict, negotiation, demarcation, perogative, etc
- Name Worker / employee welfare inc working conditions, compensation, etc
- Name Finance of production & trade
- Name Business/Industry failure, decline, lack of success, etc: decline of businesses
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Library:
- Name British Library
- City London
- County Greater London
- Country England
- Postcode NW1 2DB
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Notes:
Pioneering, scholarly, commissioned history of a family firm of medium size established in 1786 but dealing mostly with its history in the period following incorporation, 1883-1966. Chronologically structured but within periods deals with themes such as innovation, marketing, competition, organisation, collusion, etc. Organised in six parts: 1] 'Early partnerships, 1786-1883' - 'The first Archibald Kenrick's buckle venture' / 'Rise of Archibald Kenricks, ironfounders and hardware manufacturers of West Bromwich' / 'Partnerships and partners' / 'Finance and capital development' / 'Organisation' / 'Innovation' / 'Competition' / 'Cast iron hollowware and General Ironfounders' Association'; 2] 'Apogee and climacteric, 1883-1914' - 'Incorporation and entrepreneurship' / 'Technical innovation' / 'Capital growth' / 'Products, markets and sales organisation' / 'Competition and commercial policy' / 'Associations of producers' / 'Competition and diversification' / 'Prices, profits and sales - a review'; 3] 'Decline, 1914-39' - 'Entrepreneurs and managers' / 'War and its aftermath' / 'Associations of producers' / 'Depression, competition and product diversification' / 'The bath trade' / 'Investment and finance' / 'Aspects of competition' / 'Report of Peat, Marwick & Mitchell' / 'Recommendations and reactions' / 'Enterprise and management - an assessment'; 4] 'Vicissitudes in fortune, 1939-66' - 'War boom' / 'Post war reconstruction' / 'Reorganisation and crisis' / 'Enterprise, castors and recovery' / 'Growth and development' / 'Kenricks in the sixties'; 5] 'Labour relations' - conditions of work and terms of employment' / 'Strikes and mechanisation, 1888-95' / 'Labour relations, 1895-1939' / 'Welfare since 1914'; 6] 'Themes and perspectives' - 'Characteristics of change in the Midland hardware industry to 1890' / 'Technology and competition since 1890' / 'Enterprise and management at Archibald Kenricks' / 'Relative retardation on British industry and the family firm' / 'Theory, history and Arthur Kendricks