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  • The Editor's Corner

  • Journal:
    Business History Review / Volume 57 / Issue 2 / Summer 1983
    Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    11 June 2012, pp. 273-275
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    Summer 1983
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  • Invention and Innovation in the British Pin Industry, 1790–1850*

  • H.I. Dutton, S.R.H. Jones
  • Journal:
    Business History Review / Volume 57 / Issue 2 / Summer 1983
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    11 June 2012, pp. 175-193
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    Summer 1983

  • During the six decades that extended from 1790 to 1850, British pin manufacturers were often slow to adopt new technology. Unfavorable economic conditions, particulary those spawned by the Napoleonic wars, were partly responsible for the lag between the invention and utilization of new techniques, but at other times, the shortcomings of inventors as salesmen of their inventions also contributed to the slow introduction of new technology. In this article Professors Dutton and Jones illustrate that the diffusion of new technology was (and is) anything but a costless and frictionless process, and they ultimately conclude that “this arcadian world of neo-classical simplicity would seem to be far removed from historical reality.”

  • New Issues in British Business History

  • Leslie Hannah
  • Journal:
    Business History Review / Volume 57 / Issue 2 / Summer 1983
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    11 June 2012, pp. 165-174
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    Summer 1983

  • Business history has been a thriving academic industry in Britain for the last three decades. Following some pioneering case studies of Industrial Revolution entrepreneurs by the early giants of the discipline of economic history, the postwar generation has produced a series of high quality company histories. The first of these, published in 1954, was Charles Wilson's history of the Anglo-Dutch multinational Unilever, formed by a merger of Lever Brothers and Margarine Unie in 1929. Wilson's book set the pattern for a high standard of scholarship, resting on complete freedom of access to company archives, and for publication based on scholarly independence rather than the public relations needs of the commissioning organization. If some of its terms of reference now seem dated, and its framework of analysis somewhat unscientific, then that is an indication of the incentive Wilson provided for others to do better, particularly in the use of economic theory and of comparative analysis setting firms in their industrial or international context.

  • Industrial Organization and Technological Change: The Decline of the British Cotton Industry*

  • William Lazonick
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    Business History Review / Volume 57 / Issue 2 / Summer 1983
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    11 June 2012, pp. 195-236
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    Summer 1983
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  • In this important study Professor Lazonick provides an astute reappraisal of why Britain's once dominant economy has failed to meet the challenges of international competition in the twentieth century. The vehicle for his discussion is cotton manufacture, the industry which, through the technological and commercial innovations of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, made Britain the leading industrial power. Among Dr. Lazonick's questions are why did Britain's preeminance in this industry come to an end? Why did technological innovation yield to stagnation? Why did inefficient modes of economic organization persist in the face of manifest inadequacy? And what does the history of this industry have to teach us about recent economic theory?

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