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Working Papers

2017

1. Buy British campaigns after 1945: why 'soft' preference didn't work
   Working Papers, Economic History Society

2013

2. Institutions, law, and export markets: the Lancashire textile industry c.1880-c.1914
   Working Papers, Economic History Society

2007

3. Business strategy and firm performance: the British corporate economy, 1949-1984
   The York Management School Working Papers, The York Management School, University of York View citations (1)
4. Keynes and the cotton industry: a reappraisal
   The York Management School Working Papers, The York Management School, University of York

Journal Articles

2023

1. Beer, brewing, and regional studies
   Regional Studies, 2023, 57, (10), 1905-1908 View citations (1)

2022

2. ‘Buy British’: An analysis of UK attempts to turn a slogan into government policy in the 1970s and 1980s
   Business History, 2022, 64, (7), 1260-1280

2021

3. Britain’s Empire Marketing Board and the failure of soft trade policy, 1926–33
   (Bringing another empire alive? The Empire Marketing Board and the construction of Dominion identity, 1926–1933)
   European Review of Economic History, 2021, 25, (4), 780-805

2017

4. “Spinning a Yarn”: Institutions, Law, and Standards c.1880–1914
   Enterprise & Society, 2017, 18, (3), 591-631

2016

5. Beer, brewing, and business history
   Business History, 2016, 58, (5), 609-624 View citations (6)
6. Robert Millward, The state and business in the major powers: an economic history 1815–1939 ( Abingdon: Routledge, 2015. Pp. 294. 9 figs. 3 maps. 77 tabs. ISBN 9781138904040 Pbk. £34.99)
   Economic History Review, 2016, 69, (2), 734-735
7. Vertical monopoly power, profit and risk: The British beer industry, c.1970–c.2004
   Business History, 2016, 58, (5), 667-693

2015

8. Bringing Home the “Danish” Bacon: Food Chains, National Branding and Danish Supremacy over the British Bacon Market, c. 1900–1938
   Enterprise & Society, 2015, 16, (1), 141-185 View citations (1)
9. Investment decision-making and industrial performance: The British wool industry during the interwar years
   Business History, 2015, 57, (2), 224-240 View citations (2)
10. James Taylor. Boardroom Scandal: The Criminalization of Company Fraud in Nineteenth-Century Britain. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013. x + 300 pp. ISBN 978-0-19-969579-9, £62.00 (cloth)
    Enterprise & Society, 2015, 16, (3), 719-721
11. New business history?
    Business History, 2015, 57, (1), 1-4 View citations (4)
12. Ownership, financial strategy and performance: the Lancashire cotton textile industry, 1918-1938
    Business History, 2015, 57, (1), 97-121 View citations (2)
13. Towards a new business history?
    Business History, 2015, 57, (1), 5-29 View citations (3)

2014

14. Employment Change after Takeovers: The Role of Executive Ownership
    British Journal of Industrial Relations, 2014, 52, (2), 191-236 View citations (3)

2012

15. Martin Kornberger. Brand Society: How Brands Transform Management and Lifestyle. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010. xx + 308 pp. ISBN 978-0-521-898263, $95.00 (cloth); 978-0-521-72690-0, $35.99 (paper)
    Enterprise & Society, 2012, 13, (2), 440-442
16. “Forgotten Heroes and Forgotten Issues”: Business and Trademark History during the Nineteenth Century
    Business History Review, 2012, 86, (2), 261-285 View citations (5)

2011

17. Explaining corporate success: The structure and performance of British firms, 1950-84
    Business History, 2011, 53, (1), 85-118 View citations (1)
18. The rise and fall of great companies: Courtaulds and the reshaping of the man-made fibres industry
    Business History, 2011, 53, (3), 451-452

2010

19. Oil on the water: Government regulation of a carcinogen in the twentieth-century Lancashire cotton spinning industry
    Business History, 2010, 52, (5), 695-712
20. “Trick or Treat?” The Misrepresentation of American Beef Exports in Britain during the Late Nineteenth Century
    Enterprise & Society, 2010, 11, (2), 203-241

2009

21. The business of protection: Bass & Co. and trade mark defence, c. 1870-1914
    Accounting History Review, 2009, 19, (1), 1-19

2008

22. Reputation and export performance: Danish butter exports and the British market, c.1880-c.1914
    Business History, 2008, 50, (2), 185-204 View citations (2)
23. Triumph of the south: a regional economic history of early twentieth century Britain – By Peter Scott
    Economic History Review, 2008, 61, (1), 245-246

2006

24. A very peculiar practice: Underemployment in Britain during the interwar years
    European Review of Economic History, 2006, 10, (1), 89-108 View citations (7)
25. Financial institutions and corporate strategy: David Alliance and the transformation of British textiles, c.1950-c.1990
    Business History, 2006, 48, (4), 453-478

2005

26. British Business History: A Review of the Periodical Literature for 2003
    Business History, 2005, 47, (2), 159-173

2004

27. ‘MUTTON DRESSED AS LAMB?’ THE MISREPRESENTATION OF AUSTRALIAN AND NEW ZEALAND MEAT IN THE BRITISH MARKET, c. 1890–1914
    Australian Economic History Review, 2004, 44, (2), 161-184

2003

28. British Manufacturing Financial Performance, 1950-79: Implications for the Productivity Debate and the Post-War Consensus
    Business History, 2003, 45, (3), 52-71
29. Financial distress, corporate borrowing, and industrial decline: the Lancashire cotton spinning industry, 1918-38
    Accounting History Review, 2003, 13, (2), 207-232 View citations (4)
30. Review of Periodical Literature Published in 2001
    Economic History Review, 2003, 56, (1), 131-180

2000

31. Public Subsidy and Private Divestment: The Lancashire Cotton Textile Industry, c.1950-c.1965
    Business History, 2000, 42, (1), 59-84 View citations (1)

1999

32. 'Productivity on the Cheap'? The 'More Looms' Experiment and the Lancashire Weaving Industry during the Inter-War Years
    Business History, 1999, 41, (3), 21-41

1998

33. Short-time Working and Price Maintenance: Collusive Tendencies in the Cotton-Spining Industry, 1919-1939
    Economic History Review, 1998, 51, (2), 319-343 View citations (2)

1997

34. Firm structure and financial performance: the Lancashire textile industry, c.1884 - c.1960
    Accounting History Review, 1997, 7, (2), 195-232

1993

35. Rings, mules, and structural constraints in the Lancashire textile industry, c.1945-c.1965
    Economic History Review, 1993, 46, (2), 342-362

Books

2018

1. Brands, Geographical Origin, and the Global Economy
   Cambridge Books, Cambridge University Press View citations (2)

Edited books

2016

1. Brewing, Beer and Pubs
   Palgrave Macmillan Books, Palgrave Macmillan View citations (14)