Two Distorting Mirrors for British Manufacturing Performance: International and Sectoral Comparisons

Leslie Hannah

Chapter 11 in Organization and Strategy in the Evolution of the Enterprise, 1996, pp 288-302 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract Britain — the leading manufacturing nation of the Industrial Revolution — has, in the last third of the twentieth century, registered some of the lowest levels of manufacturing productivity in the advanced, industrialized world. This relative decline has focused attention on the reasons why other manufacturing nations — first America, then more recently Germany, France, Japan and Italy — overtook her. Comparisons with different countries have drawn attention to many possible causes but have the differences been too sharply drawn? In what follows, Section 2 and 3 argue that Britain has been consistently nearer to the twentieth-century Western-European norm than has recently been suggested by North American scholars.1

Keywords: Financial Service; Family Firm; Foreign Exchange Market; Corporate Control; Retail Banking (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1996
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DOI: 10.1007/978-1-349-13389-5_12

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