Andrew Perchard
Biographic Data
| ID | 1162920 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Andrew Perchard |
| GIVEN NAMES | Andrew |
| FAMILY NAME | Perchard |
| SIGNATURE | PERCHARD A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Strathclyde |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3227-6485 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 25 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 88 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 24 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Relics of the past and symbols of modernity
This article challenges popular representations of post-war British coal mining communities. Such localities are often imagined as displaying cultural practices belonging to a previous age that were subsequently fragmented by the economic and social changes of the 1980s. Such images and tropes have been further reinforced by the somewhat heroic construction of miners as archetypal proletarians in the strike of 1984–85, and through films such as B…
British Empire in metals’
A dying mutual friend’
© 2025 The Authors. Published by Taylor & Francis. This is an open access article available under a Creative Commons licence. The published version can be accessed at the following link: https://doi.org/10.1080/13619462.2025.2465789
Industry dynamics and trade association power
This article examines industry dynamics and their influence on business-government relations through a study of the UK aluminium industry, focusing on the changing role of its leading trade association, the Aluminium Federation (ALFED). It explores how ALFED developed its capabilities and relations with executive and legislature over time, revealing how it changed its composition to reflect the changes in the industry that it represents, conseque…
Energy transformation and industrial closures
Fighting for the soul of coal
In this article, we explore the impact of colliery closure programs across the nationalized British coal industry. We chart the regional disparities in these and the mobilization of community opposition to national protests, leading to the national miners’ strikes of 1972, 1974, and 1984–5. This article demonstrates how closures have changed the industrial politics of mining unions for miners, junior officials, and managers and have increasingly …
Be a Miner”
In 1975, the National Coal Board (NCB) produced a short film, “People Will Always Need Coal”, to encourage recruitment into mining. It was extraordinarily attention-grabbing, presenting miners as cosmopolitan playboys. It defined the industry in hyper-masculine terms, encouraging would-be recruits to “be a miner”. This article uses the film as a starting point for a discussion of the complex interactions between the material realities of masculin…
Unlocking dynamic capabilities in the Scotch whisky industry, 1945–present
In this article we examine the development of the Scotch whisky industry since 1945 through the lens of dynamic capabilities. We explain how sui generis acts-novel initiatives outwith the established repertoire of practices of a firm or industry-by external actors joining the industry helped unlock dynamic capabilities at the firm level in the industry which in turn drove change across the sector after a series of takeovers. We detail the key str…
Varieties of Capitalism Over Time
Business-government relations and national economic models
This special issue complements and extends existing work in business history to show how the discipline can contribute to the Varieties of Capitalism (VoC) literature. The work in this collection delves deeper into our understanding of how VoC emerge and continue through the prism of business-government relations as the two principal actors in capitalist development. The focus of much of the existing canon on varieties of capitalism is centred on…
Aligning to disadvantage
To what extent should firms get close to government for competitive advantage? What happens if they get too close? In this article we explore how corporate political activity inculcated strategic homophily in leading UK aluminium producer, the British Aluminium Company Ltd, resulting in its path dependence and eventual lock-in. The article makes three main contributions: a longitudinal study of corporate political activity and strategic homophily…
Destructive Creation
Destructive Creation: American Business and the Winning of World War II." Business History, 63(3), pp. 527–528
This Thing Called Goodwill
This article examines the Reynolds Metals Company’s political networking activities in Washington, D.C., and the state capitals of the U.S. South in the 1940s and 1950s. It argues that Reynolds’ astute recruitment of senior staff from federal and state governments, its adept building of elite networks in the legislative and executive branches, its judicious espousing of key political rhetoric (antitrust, regional development, national security), …
Clio in the business school
On the back of recent and significant new debates on the use of history within business and management studies, we consider the perception of historians as being anti-theory and of having methodological shortcomings; and business and management scholars displaying insufficient attention to historical context and privileging of certain social science methods over others. These are explored through an examination of three subjects: strategy, intern…
Buying brains and experts”
This article examines British coal owners’ use of medical and scientific knowledge of occupational lung diseases in the mining industry to resist regulatory changes between 1918 and 1946. It explores the strategies deployed by coal owners in response to scientific and lay debates over the hazard to workers’ health presented by dust, and legislation to compensate miners for pneumoconiosis and silicosis contracted in the nation’s collieries. In par…
Tin and Global Capitalism, 1850-2000
For most of the twentieth century tin was fundamental for both warfare and welfare. The importance of tin is most powerfully represented by the tin can - an invention which created a revolution in food preservation and helped feed both the armies of the great powers and the masses of the new urban society. The trouble with tin was that economically viable deposits of the metal could only be found in a few regions of the world, predominantly in th…
Tin and Global Capitalism, 1850-2000
For most of the twentieth century tin was fundamental for both warfare and welfare. The importance of tin is most powerfully represented by the tin can - an invention which created a revolution in food preservation and helped feed both the armies of the great powers and the masses of the new urban society. The trouble with tin was that economically viable deposits of the metal could only be found in a few regions of the world, predominantly in th…
The salvation of this district and far beyond’
First paragraph: Giving evidence before the House of Commons sub-committee considering the Lochaber Water Power Bill of 1921 – the statutory instrument for the establishment of the British Aluminium Company Ltd’s third Highland aluminium smelter and hydro-electric power scheme – the former Provost of Fort William, Colin Young, declared: 'I am a whole hearted supporter of this scheme for in it I see the salvation of this district and far beyond.' …
Too much on the Highlands?’ Recasting the Economic History of the Highlands and Islands
First paragraph: In an influential intervention on rural history published in 1994, which argued for a shift in emphasis in the study of the agrarian economy from the Highlands to the Lowlands, Roy Campbell opened by declaring: A fascinating, though perhaps somewhat fruitless task is to speculate on why historians choose to investigate one topic rather than another. Sometimes there may be no special reason. Sometimes their interest may reflect a …
Broken Men” and “Thatcher's Children”
This article explores the legacy of the demise of the deep coal mining industry in Scotland. It places particular emphasis on the cultural scars of this process as witnessed through miners' and managers' memories, positioning these within the context of occupational socialization, conflict, and alienation. The piece explores the enduring importance of these cultural scars in shaping broader collective narratives of decline in Scotland, and how re…
Transgressing the Moral Economy
This article illuminates the links between managerial style and political economy in post-1945 Britain, and explores the origins of the 1984–1985 miners' strike, by examining in longer historical context the abrasive attitudes and policies of Albert Wheeler, Scottish Area Director of the National Coal Board (NCB). Wheeler built on an earlier emphasis on production and economic criteria, and his micro-management reflected pre-existing centralising…
Catherine Mills, Regulating Health and Safety in the British Mining Industries, 1800-1914
Social, political and legal historians will profit equally from reading Catherine Mills' study of the emergent responses to occupational hazards in British mining. Medical historians will also benefit from Mills' discussion of the aetiology and pathology of occupational diseases in Britain's metalliferous and coal mines, alongside her previous work—in particular, ‘A Hazardous Bargain: Occupational Risk in Cornish Mining 1875–1914’, Labour History…
Supervision and authority in industry
Class Struggle in the Highlands Custom and Conflict in the ‘Land of the Gael’
Historical Research in the Highlands
Clio in the business school
On the back of recent and significant new debates on the use of history within business and management studies, we consider the perception of historians as being anti-theory and of having methodological shortcomings; and business and management scholars displaying insufficient attention to historical context and privileging of certain social science methods over others. These are explored through an examination of three subjects: strategy, intern…
Aligning to disadvantage
To what extent should firms get close to government for competitive advantage? What happens if they get too close? In this article we explore how corporate political activity inculcated strategic homophily in leading UK aluminium producer, the British Aluminium Company Ltd, resulting in its path dependence and eventual lock-in. The article makes three main contributions: a longitudinal study of corporate political activity and strategic homophily…
Broken Men” and “Thatcher's Children”
This article explores the legacy of the demise of the deep coal mining industry in Scotland. It places particular emphasis on the cultural scars of this process as witnessed through miners' and managers' memories, positioning these within the context of occupational socialization, conflict, and alienation. The piece explores the enduring importance of these cultural scars in shaping broader collective narratives of decline in Scotland, and how re…
This Thing Called Goodwill
This article examines the Reynolds Metals Company’s political networking activities in Washington, D.C., and the state capitals of the U.S. South in the 1940s and 1950s. It argues that Reynolds’ astute recruitment of senior staff from federal and state governments, its adept building of elite networks in the legislative and executive branches, its judicious espousing of key political rhetoric (antitrust, regional development, national security), …
Buying brains and experts”
This article examines British coal owners’ use of medical and scientific knowledge of occupational lung diseases in the mining industry to resist regulatory changes between 1918 and 1946. It explores the strategies deployed by coal owners in response to scientific and lay debates over the hazard to workers’ health presented by dust, and legislation to compensate miners for pneumoconiosis and silicosis contracted in the nation’s collieries. In par…
Transgressing the Moral Economy
This article illuminates the links between managerial style and political economy in post-1945 Britain, and explores the origins of the 1984–1985 miners' strike, by examining in longer historical context the abrasive attitudes and policies of Albert Wheeler, Scottish Area Director of the National Coal Board (NCB). Wheeler built on an earlier emphasis on production and economic criteria, and his micro-management reflected pre-existing centralising…
Too much on the Highlands?’ Recasting the Economic History of the Highlands and Islands
First paragraph: In an influential intervention on rural history published in 1994, which argued for a shift in emphasis in the study of the agrarian economy from the Highlands to the Lowlands, Roy Campbell opened by declaring: A fascinating, though perhaps somewhat fruitless task is to speculate on why historians choose to investigate one topic rather than another. Sometimes there may be no special reason. Sometimes their interest may reflect a …
Be a Miner”
In 1975, the National Coal Board (NCB) produced a short film, “People Will Always Need Coal”, to encourage recruitment into mining. It was extraordinarily attention-grabbing, presenting miners as cosmopolitan playboys. It defined the industry in hyper-masculine terms, encouraging would-be recruits to “be a miner”. This article uses the film as a starting point for a discussion of the complex interactions between the material realities of masculin…
Industry dynamics and trade association power
This article examines industry dynamics and their influence on business-government relations through a study of the UK aluminium industry, focusing on the changing role of its leading trade association, the Aluminium Federation (ALFED). It explores how ALFED developed its capabilities and relations with executive and legislature over time, revealing how it changed its composition to reflect the changes in the industry that it represents, conseque…
Unlocking dynamic capabilities in the Scotch whisky industry, 1945–present
In this article we examine the development of the Scotch whisky industry since 1945 through the lens of dynamic capabilities. We explain how sui generis acts-novel initiatives outwith the established repertoire of practices of a firm or industry-by external actors joining the industry helped unlock dynamic capabilities at the firm level in the industry which in turn drove change across the sector after a series of takeovers. We detail the key str…
Energy transformation and industrial closures
Fighting for the soul of coal
In this article, we explore the impact of colliery closure programs across the nationalized British coal industry. We chart the regional disparities in these and the mobilization of community opposition to national protests, leading to the national miners’ strikes of 1972, 1974, and 1984–5. This article demonstrates how closures have changed the industrial politics of mining unions for miners, junior officials, and managers and have increasingly …
Class Struggle in the Highlands Custom and Conflict in the ‘Land of the Gael’
Historical Research in the Highlands
Supervision and authority in industry
Transgressing the Moral Economy
This article illuminates the links between managerial style and political economy in post-1945 Britain, and explores the origins of the 1984–1985 miners' strike, by examining in longer historical context the abrasive attitudes and policies of Albert Wheeler, Scottish Area Director of the National Coal Board (NCB). Wheeler built on an earlier emphasis on production and economic criteria, and his micro-management reflected pre-existing centralising…
Catherine Mills, Regulating Health and Safety in the British Mining Industries, 1800-1914
Social, political and legal historians will profit equally from reading Catherine Mills' study of the emergent responses to occupational hazards in British mining. Medical historians will also benefit from Mills' discussion of the aetiology and pathology of occupational diseases in Britain's metalliferous and coal mines, alongside her previous work—in particular, ‘A Hazardous Bargain: Occupational Risk in Cornish Mining 1875–1914’, Labour History…
The salvation of this district and far beyond’
First paragraph: Giving evidence before the House of Commons sub-committee considering the Lochaber Water Power Bill of 1921 – the statutory instrument for the establishment of the British Aluminium Company Ltd’s third Highland aluminium smelter and hydro-electric power scheme – the former Provost of Fort William, Colin Young, declared: 'I am a whole hearted supporter of this scheme for in it I see the salvation of this district and far beyond.' …
Too much on the Highlands?’ Recasting the Economic History of the Highlands and Islands
First paragraph: In an influential intervention on rural history published in 1994, which argued for a shift in emphasis in the study of the agrarian economy from the Highlands to the Lowlands, Roy Campbell opened by declaring: A fascinating, though perhaps somewhat fruitless task is to speculate on why historians choose to investigate one topic rather than another. Sometimes there may be no special reason. Sometimes their interest may reflect a …
Broken Men” and “Thatcher's Children”
This article explores the legacy of the demise of the deep coal mining industry in Scotland. It places particular emphasis on the cultural scars of this process as witnessed through miners' and managers' memories, positioning these within the context of occupational socialization, conflict, and alienation. The piece explores the enduring importance of these cultural scars in shaping broader collective narratives of decline in Scotland, and how re…
Tin and Global Capitalism, 1850-2000
For most of the twentieth century tin was fundamental for both warfare and welfare. The importance of tin is most powerfully represented by the tin can - an invention which created a revolution in food preservation and helped feed both the armies of the great powers and the masses of the new urban society. The trouble with tin was that economically viable deposits of the metal could only be found in a few regions of the world, predominantly in th…
Tin and Global Capitalism, 1850-2000
For most of the twentieth century tin was fundamental for both warfare and welfare. The importance of tin is most powerfully represented by the tin can - an invention which created a revolution in food preservation and helped feed both the armies of the great powers and the masses of the new urban society. The trouble with tin was that economically viable deposits of the metal could only be found in a few regions of the world, predominantly in th…
Buying brains and experts”
This article examines British coal owners’ use of medical and scientific knowledge of occupational lung diseases in the mining industry to resist regulatory changes between 1918 and 1946. It explores the strategies deployed by coal owners in response to scientific and lay debates over the hazard to workers’ health presented by dust, and legislation to compensate miners for pneumoconiosis and silicosis contracted in the nation’s collieries. In par…
Clio in the business school
On the back of recent and significant new debates on the use of history within business and management studies, we consider the perception of historians as being anti-theory and of having methodological shortcomings; and business and management scholars displaying insufficient attention to historical context and privileging of certain social science methods over others. These are explored through an examination of three subjects: strategy, intern…
This Thing Called Goodwill
This article examines the Reynolds Metals Company’s political networking activities in Washington, D.C., and the state capitals of the U.S. South in the 1940s and 1950s. It argues that Reynolds’ astute recruitment of senior staff from federal and state governments, its adept building of elite networks in the legislative and executive branches, its judicious espousing of key political rhetoric (antitrust, regional development, national security), …
Business-government relations and national economic models
This special issue complements and extends existing work in business history to show how the discipline can contribute to the Varieties of Capitalism (VoC) literature. The work in this collection delves deeper into our understanding of how VoC emerge and continue through the prism of business-government relations as the two principal actors in capitalist development. The focus of much of the existing canon on varieties of capitalism is centred on…
Aligning to disadvantage
To what extent should firms get close to government for competitive advantage? What happens if they get too close? In this article we explore how corporate political activity inculcated strategic homophily in leading UK aluminium producer, the British Aluminium Company Ltd, resulting in its path dependence and eventual lock-in. The article makes three main contributions: a longitudinal study of corporate political activity and strategic homophily…
Destructive Creation
Destructive Creation: American Business and the Winning of World War II." Business History, 63(3), pp. 527–528
Varieties of Capitalism Over Time
Energy transformation and industrial closures
Fighting for the soul of coal
In this article, we explore the impact of colliery closure programs across the nationalized British coal industry. We chart the regional disparities in these and the mobilization of community opposition to national protests, leading to the national miners’ strikes of 1972, 1974, and 1984–5. This article demonstrates how closures have changed the industrial politics of mining unions for miners, junior officials, and managers and have increasingly …
Be a Miner”
In 1975, the National Coal Board (NCB) produced a short film, “People Will Always Need Coal”, to encourage recruitment into mining. It was extraordinarily attention-grabbing, presenting miners as cosmopolitan playboys. It defined the industry in hyper-masculine terms, encouraging would-be recruits to “be a miner”. This article uses the film as a starting point for a discussion of the complex interactions between the material realities of masculin…
Unlocking dynamic capabilities in the Scotch whisky industry, 1945–present
In this article we examine the development of the Scotch whisky industry since 1945 through the lens of dynamic capabilities. We explain how sui generis acts-novel initiatives outwith the established repertoire of practices of a firm or industry-by external actors joining the industry helped unlock dynamic capabilities at the firm level in the industry which in turn drove change across the sector after a series of takeovers. We detail the key str…
A dying mutual friend’
© 2025 The Authors. Published by Taylor & Francis. This is an open access article available under a Creative Commons licence. The published version can be accessed at the following link: https://doi.org/10.1080/13619462.2025.2465789
Industry dynamics and trade association power
This article examines industry dynamics and their influence on business-government relations through a study of the UK aluminium industry, focusing on the changing role of its leading trade association, the Aluminium Federation (ALFED). It explores how ALFED developed its capabilities and relations with executive and legislature over time, revealing how it changed its composition to reflect the changes in the industry that it represents, conseque…
Relics of the past and symbols of modernity
This article challenges popular representations of post-war British coal mining communities. Such localities are often imagined as displaying cultural practices belonging to a previous age that were subsequently fragmented by the economic and social changes of the 1980s. Such images and tropes have been further reinforced by the somewhat heroic construction of miners as archetypal proletarians in the strike of 1984–85, and through films such as B…
British Empire in metals’
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