Harrison, A. E (1977) Growth, Entrepreneurship and Capital Formation in the United Kingdom's Cycle and Related Industries, 1870-1914. PhD thesis, University of York.
Abstract
The thesis delineates the growth, and the various social,
economic, institutional and technological factors supporting
the growth, of the United Kingdom's cycle and related industries
over the period circa. 1870 - 1914. The emphasis-is upon tracing
the short- and long-run movements in the industries' outputs up to
1900 (but without the ideal facility of quantitative data directly
" relating to the aggregate volumes and values of final gross outputs);
and upon assessing the links of the industry with the pre-existing
industrial structures of the U. K. economy - in terms of the
diversification of firms, the origins of the "founding fathers",
and of the types and sources of initial capital requirements. The
thesis also examines the various elements that pervaded the
technological developments, with regard to both final products and
the processes of their production, within the cycle industries in
the broad. It is additionally concerned with the rise of foreign
competition, and the typical or untypical reactions of the British
entrepreneurial leaders of the cycle industry to this phenomenon.
The thesis ends with a study of the relationships of the firms in
the cycle and related industries with the facilities for formal, public,
joint-stock company flotations in the United Kingdom, in order to cast
some light upon the proposition that the available facilities tended
to militate against the expansion of a "new" industry, such as the
cycle industry, during the thirty-odd years prior to 1914
Metadata
Awarding institution: | University of York |
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Academic Units: | The University of York > Economics and Related Studies (York) |
Identification Number/EthosID: | uk.bl.ethos.458349 |
Depositing User: | EThOS Import (York) |
Date Deposited: | 24 Nov 2016 17:11 |
Last Modified: | 24 Nov 2016 17:11 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:etheses.whiterose.ac.uk:14097 |
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