From family firms to corporate capitalism : essays in business and industrial history in honour of Peter Mathias

What explains the growth of a business, and more broadly, the development or decline of a whole economy? What role do particular entrepreneurs or indeed cultures of entrepreneurship play? This volume has been stimulated by the work of Peter Mathias, one of the leading figures in this field in the post-war period. Here a number of his former students pay tribute in a book that explores the move from family firms to corporate capitalism.