Background
HANNAH, Leslie was born in 1947 in Oldham, Lancashire, England.
( First published in 1976, this much acclaimed book looks...)
First published in 1976, this much acclaimed book looks at the story of how today's large corporations have superseded the small competing firms of the nineteenth century. The long-run analysis confirms that the crucial periods in the formulation of the modern corporate system were the 1920's and 1960's. The merger wave of these decades was associated with a desire to improve the efficiency of Britain’s industrial organization, and the author shows that it was in a large measure responsible for the trend improvement (by historical if not international standards) in Britain's growth performance. Students of business, economic history and industrial economics will all welcome the return to print of a notable contribution to the continuing debate on the evolution and control of the corporate manufacturing sector.
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HANNAH, Leslie was born in 1947 in Oldham, Lancashire, England.
Bachelor of Arts (History), Doctor of Philosophy, Master of Arts University Oxford, 1968, 1972, 1972. Master of Arts, Doctor of Philosophy University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom, 1975, 1975.
Junior Research Fellow History, University Oxford, 1969-1973. Lector Economics, University Essex, 1973-1975. Lector Recent British Economics and Social History, Fellow, Emmanuel College Cambridge, 1975-1978.
Director, Business History Unit., London School of Economies and Political Science, London, United Kingdom, Imperial College Science and Technology, London, since 1978. Thomas Carroll Ford Foundation Visiting Professor, Harvard Graduate School Business Administration, 1984-1985. Professor Business History, London School of Economies and Political Science, London, United Kingdom,
1982-.
Editor, Business History-, Chairman, Editor Advisory Board, Dictionary of Business Biography.
( First published in 1976, this much acclaimed book looks...)
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My central research interest has been and remains the microeconomic roots of Britain’s poor economic performance in the twentieth century. I have tried to bring together some of the empirical work
by historians and theoretical work by economists, initially in the area of mergers and concentration, then in studies of a major ‘new industry’, the electricity industry under private and public ownership. In the latter, international comparisons made me more and more aware of the ‘noneconomic’ sources of poor performance.
Currently I am working on the empirical analysis of entrepreneurial quality differences and on the development of occupational pension schemes (United States/United Kingdom comparisons).