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

by Geoffrey Tweedale

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198288662
• ISBN13: 9780198288664
• Release Date: August 1995
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 456 Pages
• Weight: 1.98 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.4" x 9.5"