Institutions and the Evolution of Modern Business

Mark Casson, Mary B. Rose

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2014
• eBook ISBN:
  9781317973690
• Topic: Commerce
• Subtopic: Commerce Général

The papers in this volume demonstrate that it can be fruitful to apply institutional theory to business history. In addition, the volume shows that the wider study of the institutional environment is inseparable from the study of business. It is clear, however, that although 'institutionalism' in business history has a long pedigree, many areas of research and potential interaction with theory remain to be explored. The extent to which this will occur inevitably depends upon the degree to which the interests of theoreticians serve the needs of historians and vice versa.

Index

Accident Offices Association (AOA) 55, 57

agency, agencies 59, 63, 115, 117, 155, 168

agency/broker market 50

Agency for Industrial Finance (1959) 116

agency theory 44–5, 61

agent(s) 48–51, 53, 55, 58–61, 67, 157, 163

AIC 76

Alchian, A.A. 12–13

amalgamations 143

America 27, 145 (see also United States)

American Cotton Manufacturers Institute (ACMI) 131, 133–4, 137, 140–41

Anglican church, Anglicanism 30, 33, 34, 40

Anglo-American Council on Productivity (AACP) 75–6

Anglo-Japanese Payments and Trade Agreement (1954) 132

artificial intelligence 38

asset specificity 15–16, 18–19, 24

Associated Industrial Consultants (AIC) 74–5

Association Française des Conseillers en Direction

(AFCOD) 78

Association of Consulting Engineers 69

Ausschuß für wirtschaftliche Fertigung (AWF) 70

Austin 90

Baldwin's 96

Baldwins and Ebbw Vale 97

Bank of England 87, 90, 95, 100

Bank of Norway 114–16, 120

bank-industry relations 5, 87, 94, 100

Bankers Industrial Development (BID) 87, 95

banking 111, 168

bankruptcy 85

banks (see also individually named banks) 5, 33, 84–6, 87–9, 92, 94–100, 108–10, 113–15, 117, 119–22, 152, 155, 165

Barclays Bank 97

Batts (of ...

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Books of related interest
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Table of Contents
• Introduction
• Transaction Costs and the Theory of the Firm: The Scope and Limitations of the New Institutional Approach
• Complexity, Community Structure and Competitive Advantage within the Yorkshire Woollen Industry, c. 1700–1850
• Invisible, Visible and ‘Direct’ Hands: An Institutional Interpretation of Organisational Structure and Change in British General Insurance
• Consultancies, Institutions and the Diffusion of Taylorism in Britain, Germany and France, 1920s to 1950s
• Financial Reconstruction and Industrial Reorganisation in Different Financial Systems: A Comparative View of British and Swedish Institutions during the Inter-War Period
• Post-War Strategic Capitalism in Norway: A Theoretical and Analytical Framework
• The Politics of Protection: An Institutional Approach to Government-Industry Relations in the British and United States Cotton Industries, 1945–73
• Institutional Economics and Business History: A Way Forward?
• Abstracts
• Index