Steel City: Entrepreneurship, Strategy, and Technology in Sheffield 1743-1993 - Hardcover

Tweedale, Geoffrey

9780198288664: Steel City: Entrepreneurship, Strategy, and Technology in Sheffield 1743-1993

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0198288662 ISBN 13: 9780198288664

Publisher: Oxford University Press, 1995

The book focuses on the historical evolution of firms, and industry leaders and their strategies. Sheffield's experience is then related to current historical and economic debates about industrial structure, entrepreneurship and UK decline. Sheffield is revealed (with some important qualifications) as a remarkably enduring and successful center; and also a highly complex one, which cannot be fitted easily into present theories of mass production and entrepreneurial failure.

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About the Author:

Geoffrey Tweedale is a Senior Research Fellow at Manchester Metropolitan University.

Review:

"The remarkable history if Sheffield and its steel industry has at last found a worthy author, Geoffrey Tweedale, and the result is a supeb book...It is a truly amazing account, brilliantly researched and written, which describes how a tradition of manufacturing iron tools and the development of crucible steelmaking led to the largest concentration of steel industries in the world."--Materials World

"In this excellent book, Geoffrey Tweedale provides a comprehensive assessment of the development of businesses in the 'steel city' of Sheffield from the mid-eighteenth century to the present....Rich in empirical detail, and combining an impressive range of both primary and secondary sources, Steel City is given the recognition it deserves within the history of British steelmaking."--Business History Review

"This excellent book manages to be both scholarly and a pleasure to read...This book can be most warmly recommended to business historians and indeed to all who are fascinated by Britain's alleged long-term economic failure."--Business History

"This is and important book, rich in empirical detail, wide-ranging in its historical insights, and theoretically robust...a major achievement."--The Albion

"...impressively researched and rendered in vigorous prose...Superbly produced and with an excellent bibliography."--Choice

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