| Preface | | xi | |
| List of Figures | | xiv | |
| List of Tables | | xv | |
| Abbreviations | | xvi | |
| PART I. Introduction | |
| 1. An Introduction to British Management History |
| | 3 | (22) |
| | 3 | (1) |
| | 4 | (2) |
| The Origins of Management |
| | 6 | (2) |
| | 8 | (3) |
| The Evolution of Structure |
| | 11 | (6) |
| | 17 | (4) |
| A Periodization of the Development of Modern Management in Britain |
| | 21 | (2) |
| | 23 | (1) |
| | 24 | (1) |
| 2. A Theoretical and Thematic Framework |
| | 25 | (26) |
| | 25 | (1) |
| Management in the Theory of the Firm |
| | 26 | (2) |
| Schools of Management Thought |
| | 28 | (3) |
| Managerial Approaches to Problems |
| | 31 | (1) |
| Models of Organizational Growth |
| | 32 | (5) |
| The 'Drivers' of Management Growth |
| | 37 | (4) |
| | 41 | (5) |
| | 46 | (5) |
| PART II. Management and Organizations | |
| 3. British Management and Organization up to the 1940's |
| | 51 | (24) |
| | 51 | (1) |
| Industrialization and Management to the 1870's |
| | 51 | (5) |
| | 56 | (9) |
| | 65 | (4) |
| | 69 | (4) |
| | 73 | (2) |
| 4. Comparative Management Systems up to the 1940's |
| | 75 | (33) |
| | 75 | (1) |
| The United States: Competitive Managerial Capitalism |
| | 76 | (13) |
| Germany: Professional Proprietorial Capitalism |
| | 89 | (9) |
| Japan: Collective Managerial Capitalism |
| | 98 | (8) |
| | 106 | (2) |
| 5. British Management since the 1940's |
| | 108 | (29) |
| | 108 | (1) |
| The 1940's and 1950's: Continuing Post-war Problems |
| | 108 | (9) |
| The 1960's and 1970's: Dimensions of Change |
| | 117 | (6) |
| The 1980's and 1990's: Managerial Capitalism |
| | 123 | (6) |
| | 129 | (8) |
| PART III. Managers in Context | |
| 6. Managers��The Social and Cultural Environment |
| | 137 | (19) |
| | 137 | (1) |
| | 138 | (1) |
| Public Attitudes towards Industry |
| | 139 | (3) |
| State Attitudes towards Industry |
| | 142 | (2) |
| The Psychology of Industrialists |
| | 144 | (3) |
| | 147 | (2) |
| The Managerial Labour Market |
| | 149 | (6) |
| | 155 | (1) |
| 7. The Development of Managers |
| | 156 | (20) |
| | 156 | (1) |
| | 157 | (4) |
| Corporate Training and Development |
| | 161 | (3) |
| The Role of Consultants in Development |
| | 164 | (2) |
| Development through the Professional Institutes |
| | 166 | (2) |
| Management Education and the Rise of the Business Schools |
| | 168 | (3) |
| The Demand for Development |
| | 171 | (2) |
| | 173 | (3) |
| 8. Managerial Thought and Institutions |
| | 176 | (21) |
| | 176 | (1) |
| | 176 | (3) |
| The Interwar Management Movement |
| | 179 | (4) |
| Towards a Body of Knowledge |
| | 183 | (3) |
| Professional Institutes for Management |
| | 186 | (1) |
| The Central Institute in Management |
| | 187 | (3) |
| Other Professional Institutes |
| | 190 | (3) |
| | 193 | (4) |
| PART IV. Managerial Functions | |
| 9. The Practice of Management��Labour |
| | 197 | (19) |
| | 197 | (2) |
| Early Dependence on Subcontracting |
| | 199 | (2) |
| The Rise of Organized Labour and the Loss of Managerial Control |
| | 201 | (3) |
| The Formalization of Bargaining in the Interwar Period |
| | 204 | (3) |
| The Post-war Battle to Control the Shop Floor |
| | 207 | (3) |
| The Assertion of Managerial Control: 1985��Present |
| | 210 | (3) |
| | 213 | (3) |
| 10. The Practice of Management��Marketing |
| | 216 | (18) |
| | 216 | (2) |
| Early British Marketing��The Heyday of Merchanting to 1870 |
| | 218 | (2) |
| 1870��First World War: The Rise of Branding and Advertising in a Consumer Society |
| | 220 | (4) |
| The Interwar Period and the Beginnings of Institutionalization |
| | 224 | (3) |
| Post-Second World War: Towards Strategic Marketing |
| | 227 | (4) |
| Current British Marketing |
| | 231 | (1) |
| | 232 | (2) |
| 11. The Practice of Management��Accounting and Finance |
| | 234 | (21) |
| | 234 | (1) |
| Accountancy and Industrialization |
| | 235 | (4) |
| Associations, Divisions, and Roles |
| | 239 | (3) |
| The Emergence of Financial Capitalism |
| | 242 | (4) |
| | 246 | (4) |
| | 250 | (5) |
| PART V. Conclusions and Reflections | |
| | 255 | (20) |
| Reflections on the Frames of Reference |
| | 255 | (3) |
| The Persistence of Personal and Proprietorial Capitalism |
| | 258 | (2) |
| Management, Organizational Structure, and Transaction Costs |
| | 260 | (2) |
| Social Attitudes towards Management and Industry |
| | 262 | (2) |
| The Slow Transition towards Professional Management |
| | 264 | (3) |
| Managerial Growth and Change |
| | 267 | (2) |
| Reflections on Managerial Capitalism and the Future |
| | 269 | (6) |
| Bibliography | | 275 | (18) |
| Index | | 293 | |
