David M Higgins
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 955207 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | David M Higgins |
| NOMBRES | David M |
| APELLIDO | Higgins |
| FIRMA | HIGGINS D M |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Sheffield |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6885-266X |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 56 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 131 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 56 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1993 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 7 |
Meeting People Where They Are
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Working behind the scenes
We present an historically informed case study of the Scotch Whisky Association (SWA), during the 1950s, and 1960s, to illustrate the fundamental role it played in protecting the Scotch whisky industry in its key export market, the US. We illuminate the relationship between the SWA and its eminent legal counsel in the US, Ansel Luxford, who shielded the SWA from a major dispute between US and Canadian distillers. Our study explores the following …
Storm in a teacup
This article uses the origin marking of tea as a case study to examine contemporary debates on imperial preference and 'soft' trade protection.The case integrates three themes affecting the UK business environment during the 1920s: protectionism, imperial tariff preference, and consumer choice.We discuss the extent to which consumers' tea purchases were influenced by proprietary brand, or geographical origin.Our analysis focuses on the legislativ…
Exploring the Experience of Pain and Pain Management for Pregnant and Postpartum Veterans with Chronic Musculoskeletal Pain
Crime, Trade Marks and Soft Trade Policy in the Interwar Era
This article explores a facet of the relationship between trade marks and the criminal law in the UK in the interwar era, a pivotal period of transition in UK economic policy from free trade to a more managed economy. Drawing together insights from legal, business and economic history, we show that, in the interwar years, the context of domestic politics and wider international trade policy, produced a greater focus on the relationship between tr…
The Dire Need for Surveillance of Vaccine Hesitancy in the United States
Musculoskeletal Pain During Pregnancy Among Veterans
Science Fiction and Native Epistemologies
Science Fiction and Native Epistemologies David M. Higgins (bio) Miriam C. Brown Spiers. Encountering the Sovereign Other: Indigenous Science Fiction. Michigan State UP, 2021. xl+143 pp. $39.95 pbk & ebk. Encountering the Sovereign Other argues that Indigenous science fiction approaches encounters with alterity from a richly ethical perspective informed by the spatial and communal grounding of tribally specific Native worldviews. If Euro-American…
Beer, brewing, and regional studies
Ann Leckie’s "Ancillary Justice"
Buy British’
This article uses newly available state and business records to investigate the effectiveness of Buy British policies when Britain was a member of the EEC between the early 1970s and the mid-1980s – a period of rapid import penetration and deindustrialisation. We show that government pursued a range of overt and covert measures to combat these economic problems. Overt measures sought to encourage domestic consumers to buy British; covert measures…
A randomized controlled trial of cognitive behavioral therapy compared with diabetes education for diabetic peripheral neuropathic pain
A randomized controlled trial compared cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) and diabetes education (ED) as an adjunctive treatment for diabetic peripheral neuropathic pain (DPNP). We examined change from baseline to 12- and 36-week follow-up in overall pain intensity (NRS), neuropathic pain intensity/quality, pain interference, and mental health functioning, among others. Although CBT participants demonstrated improvement in pain intensity NRS, the…
Litigation and Lobbying in Support of the Marque
We examine the Scotch Whisky Association’s (SWA) role in protecting “Scotch whisky” between c. 1945 and c. 1990. Using new archival evidence, we demonstrate that the SWA intensively lobbied the UK government to achieve coordination between domestic and European regulations governing Scotch whisky and whisky. The SWA’s nonmarket activities were consonant with some trade associations but in other respects they were atypical. The SWA extended its ac…
Brand image, cultural association and marketing
This article examines the branding and marketing strategies of New Zealand Producers Boards which were established in the early 1920s to coordinate the export of butter and lamb to Britain. The brand ‘New Zealand’ featured prominently in the promotion of lamb exports to Britain, whereas much more emphasis was placed on the ‘Anchor’ brand for butter. Because the ‘Mother Country’ was by far the biggest single export market for New Zealand butter an…
Introduction
A Glorious Mythology of Loss
Gender Differences in Demographic and Clinical Correlates among Veterans with Musculoskeletal Disorders
Spinning a Yarn”
The Manchester Chamber of Commerce established the Manchester Testing House in 1895, and introduced uniform yarn contracting rules in 1897. The chamber made these institutional “innovations” to deal with the nefarious practice of “short-reeling.” This case study explains how and why merchants were crucial to undoing weaknesses in domestic —and to some extent foreign—legislation to overcome this fraudulent activity. We argue that the Testing House…
Beer, brewing, and business history
This editorial introduces the eight articles in the special issue on ‘Beer, brewing and business history’. Following the BEERONOMICS conference held at the University of York, 2013, and the subsequent approval of the editorial board of Business History, we received many submissions discussing beer, brewing, and their importance to business history (broadly defined). In this editorial we provide a brief overview of the historical development of be…
Psychometric properties of a Move!23 subscale
The MOVE!23, a questionnaire to assess weight-related domains in veterans, was examined. Factor analysis of Perceived Contributors to Weight Change revealed three factors (psychosocial, eating behavior, and medical) that were positively correlated with body mass index, and psychiatric and medical comorbidity ( p's < 0.001). Multivariable cumulative logit models modeling the factor scores indicated that women were more likely than men to endorse p…
Dreams of Accumulation
The Cambridge Companion to American Science Fiction
The Cambridge Companion to American Science Fiction explores the relationship between the ideas and themes of American science fiction and their roots in the American cultural experience. Science fiction in America has long served to reflect the country's hopes, desires, ambitions, and fears. The ideas and conventions associated with science fiction are pervasive throughout American film and television, comics and visual arts, games and gaming, a…
Boardroom Scandal
Reviewed by: Boardroom Scandal: The Criminalization of Company Fraud in Nineteenth-Century Britain by James Taylor David Higgins James Taylor. Boardroom Scandal: The Criminalization of Company Fraud in Nineteenth-Century Britain. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013. x + 300 pp. ISBN 978-0-19-969579-9, £62.00 (cloth). The publication of this book could not have been more apposite: It has been six years since the onset of the current recession, w…
Bringing Home the “Danish” Bacon
A substantial literature documents the importance of trademarks and brands to business success. How does this relationship change when we enlarge our focus from individual firms to industries and nations? This articles examines the dominance of Danish bacon in Britain between the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. We argue that this supremacy required state intervention and cooperation between government and producers to underpin high…
Reverse Colonization
Towards a new business history
This article calls for a discussion about business history research. We advocate that the current typical approach in business history – dominantly case study analysis – maintains its prominent position, but the purpose and relevance of this type of research in the scientific method for business history is made more explicit. Moreover, the article proposes the application of additional approaches in business history, which specifically aim to dev…
Reputation and export performance
This article extends current scholarship on the role of branding and trade marking in establishing competitive advantage. Using a case study of Danish butter exports to the British market, 1880–1914, we demonstrate that many of the technological and organisational innovations in this industry were not in themselves sufficient to guarantee that Danish butter would command price premiums in the British market. We argue that the introduction of the …
Forgotten Heroes and Forgotten Issues”
This reassessment of the importance of trademarks in business during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries reveals that the focus by business historians on the beverage and processed-foodstuff industries has resulted in comparative neglect of the textile and metal-fabrication industries. The trademark histories of the latter two show that they followed their own paths, which resulted in their adopting three solutions to trademark issues th…
Asset or Liability? Trade Marks in the Sheffield Cutlery and Tool Trades
Sheffield was a nineteenth-century poineer in trade mark legislation, testifying to an involvement with the marking of goods dating from the sixteenth century. The article discusses the reasons for the importance of trade marks in steel hardware products; describes Sheffield's involvement with trade mark legislation, first for company trade marks, and then for geographic marks; and finally, assesses the impact of Sheffield's trade mark policy. Fa…
Bringing Home the “Danish” Bacon
A substantial literature documents the importance of trademarks and brands to business success. How does this relationship change when we enlarge our focus from individual firms to industries and nations? This articles examines the dominance of Danish bacon in Britain between the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. We argue that this supremacy required state intervention and cooperation between government and producers to underpin high…
Public Subsidy and Private Divestment
The investment and divestment policies of Lancashire cotton companies are examined by reference to historical financial and other archival data. Capital/product market and political/institutional constraints on entrepreneurial behaviour are evaluated. Lancashire entrepreneurs were faced with a legacy of over-capacity and a market situation that individual decisions could do little to later. Political constraints, especially in the form of taxatio…
Financial institutions and corporate strategy
This article introduces and assesses a conceptual model of institutional and corporate change. In particular it seeks to integrate strategic choice and associated corporate structure with the role of the market for corporate control (MCC) as a governance mechanism. The model is illustrated using longitudinal case studies from the British textile industry with particular reference to the acquisition policy of David Alliance as he built up the Spir…
Brand image, cultural association and marketing
This article examines the branding and marketing strategies of New Zealand Producers Boards which were established in the early 1920s to coordinate the export of butter and lamb to Britain. The brand ‘New Zealand’ featured prominently in the promotion of lamb exports to Britain, whereas much more emphasis was placed on the ‘Anchor’ brand for butter. Because the ‘Mother Country’ was by far the biggest single export market for New Zealand butter an…
Beer, brewing, and business history
This editorial introduces the eight articles in the special issue on ‘Beer, brewing and business history’. Following the BEERONOMICS conference held at the University of York, 2013, and the subsequent approval of the editorial board of Business History, we received many submissions discussing beer, brewing, and their importance to business history (broadly defined). In this editorial we provide a brief overview of the historical development of be…
Short-time Working and Price Maintenance
Litigation and Lobbying in Support of the Marque
We examine the Scotch Whisky Association’s (SWA) role in protecting “Scotch whisky” between c. 1945 and c. 1990. Using new archival evidence, we demonstrate that the SWA intensively lobbied the UK government to achieve coordination between domestic and European regulations governing Scotch whisky and whisky. The SWA’s nonmarket activities were consonant with some trade associations but in other respects they were atypical. The SWA extended its ac…
New business history
This editorial introduces eight articles for the special issue on ‘New business history?’. Following a workshop on this topic, several submissions with discussions on business history methodology and studies with non-standard historical approaches were received and reviewed. In the editorial we provide an overview of recent debates in the discipline and provide a short introduction to the articles accepted for publication in this special issue
Ownership, financial strategy and performance
This article assesses the validity of John Maynard Keynes' claim that the Lancashire cotton industry failed to restructure because the banks as debt holders prevented firms exiting the industry, creating persistent over-capacity. Using case studies from a substantial sample of Lancashire firms, the article explores archival evidence to establish their financial characteristics, to examine their equity and debt finance and the governance roles of …
Introduction
Introduction
British Manufacturing Financial Performance, 1950-79
This article applies accounting rates of return (ROCE) to the debate on the post-war consensus. Using a sample which contains over 39,000 company years divided between 15 manufacturing industries, we examine the speed and extent of convergence in ROCE through time, between industries, and between firms. We find there is some support for the Broadberry-Crafts argument that anti-competitive practices, enshrined in the post-war consensus, appear to …
Storm in a teacup
This article uses the origin marking of tea as a case study to examine contemporary debates on imperial preference and 'soft' trade protection.The case integrates three themes affecting the UK business environment during the 1920s: protectionism, imperial tariff preference, and consumer choice.We discuss the extent to which consumers' tea purchases were influenced by proprietary brand, or geographical origin.Our analysis focuses on the legislativ…
Beer, brewing, and regional studies
Buy British’
This article uses newly available state and business records to investigate the effectiveness of Buy British policies when Britain was a member of the EEC between the early 1970s and the mid-1980s – a period of rapid import penetration and deindustrialisation. We show that government pursued a range of overt and covert measures to combat these economic problems. Overt measures sought to encourage domestic consumers to buy British; covert measures…
A Glorious Mythology of Loss
Spinning a Yarn”
The Manchester Chamber of Commerce established the Manchester Testing House in 1895, and introduced uniform yarn contracting rules in 1897. The chamber made these institutional “innovations” to deal with the nefarious practice of “short-reeling.” This case study explains how and why merchants were crucial to undoing weaknesses in domestic —and to some extent foreign—legislation to overcome this fraudulent activity. We argue that the Testing House…
Dreams of Accumulation
Investment decision-making and industrial performance
As exogenous shocks impact on industry we believe it timely to revisit the experience of two ‘staple’ industries during the interwar period: cotton and wool textiles. Using a variety of under- explored primary source materials we argue that the ability to withstand the shocks of the interwar years was largely dependent on prior investment decisions. In cotton textiles the re floatation boom precluded strategic flexibility and encouraged collusion…
Psychic Decolonization in 1960s Science Fiction
Toward a Cosmopolitan Science Fiction
Higgins argues that the depth of science fiction's engagement with imperial themes allows the genre to function as a critical literature of empire. As a literary mode engaged with imperial dream-work, science fiction addresses the operations of imperialism more fully than any other mode of cultural production, and it is from this deep understanding of empire (in both its colonial and neocolonial forms) that the genre produces rich cosmopolitan al…
Rings, Mules, and Structural Constraints in the Lancashire Textile Industry, c.1945-c.1965
Rings, mules, and structural constraints in the Lancashire textile industry, c.1945-c.1965
Justices and Parliament in the Early Fourteenth Century
Asset or Liability? Trade Marks in the Sheffield Cutlery and Tool Trades
Sheffield was a nineteenth-century poineer in trade mark legislation, testifying to an involvement with the marking of goods dating from the sixteenth century. The article discusses the reasons for the importance of trade marks in steel hardware products; describes Sheffield's involvement with trade mark legislation, first for company trade marks, and then for geographic marks; and finally, assesses the impact of Sheffield's trade mark policy. Fa…
Short-time Working and Price Maintenance
Productivity on the Cheap’? The ‘More Looms’ Experiment and the Lancashire Weaving Industry during the Inter-War Years
Two major debates in the literature, productivity performance and the decline of the cotton industry, are joined in the analysis presented in this article on the attempts to raise productivity through the introduction of the more looms per weaver system in cotton weaving in the inter-war years. We find that the limited resultant changes were the outcome of understandable predisposition to maintain co-operative behaviour which meant that productiv…
Public Subsidy and Private Divestment
The investment and divestment policies of Lancashire cotton companies are examined by reference to historical financial and other archival data. Capital/product market and political/institutional constraints on entrepreneurial behaviour are evaluated. Lancashire entrepreneurs were faced with a legacy of over-capacity and a market situation that individual decisions could do little to later. Political constraints, especially in the form of taxatio…
British Manufacturing Financial Performance, 1950-79
This article applies accounting rates of return (ROCE) to the debate on the post-war consensus. Using a sample which contains over 39,000 company years divided between 15 manufacturing industries, we examine the speed and extent of convergence in ROCE through time, between industries, and between firms. We find there is some support for the Broadberry-Crafts argument that anti-competitive practices, enshrined in the post-war consensus, appear to …
‘Mutton Dressed as Lamb?’ the Misrepresentation of Australian and New Zealand Meat in the British Market, C. 1890–1914
This article examines the misrepresentation of Australasian meat in Britain, 1890–1914. Using contemporary official analyses of this practice, we investigate the alleged economic consequences for Australasian and British farmers and British consumers and discuss evidence of the extent of this misrepresentation. The need to secure ‘honest trade’ by compulsory marking of imported meat was the principal recommendation of several official enquiries. …
British Business History
Financial institutions and corporate strategy
This article introduces and assesses a conceptual model of institutional and corporate change. In particular it seeks to integrate strategic choice and associated corporate structure with the role of the market for corporate control (MCC) as a governance mechanism. The model is illustrated using longitudinal case studies from the British textile industry with particular reference to the acquisition policy of David Alliance as he built up the Spir…
Science Fiction and American Wests
Reputation and export performance
This article extends current scholarship on the role of branding and trade marking in establishing competitive advantage. Using a case study of Danish butter exports to the British market, 1880–1914, we demonstrate that many of the technological and organisational innovations in this industry were not in themselves sufficient to guarantee that Danish butter would command price premiums in the British market. We argue that the introduction of the …
Triumph of the south
Colonialism and Ideological Fantasy
Trick or Treat?” The Misrepresentation of American Beef Exports in Britain during the Late Nineteenth Century
This article examines the misrepresentation of American beef in the British market between c. 1890 and c. 1913. We examine the complaints voiced by British consumers, producers, and retailers and we discuss the response of the British government and the United States Department of Agriculture. A new dataset is employed to calculate the price premiums that could be earned from the misrepresentation of beef according to geographic origin. While con…
Oil on the water
In the Lancashire cotton textile industry, mule spinners were prone to a chronic and sometimes fatal skin cancer (often affecting the groin). The disease had reached epidemic proportions by the 1920s, which necessitated action by the government, employers, and trade unions. In contrast to previous accounts, this article focuses on the government's reaction to mule spinners' cancer. Using official records in the National Archives, the slow introdu…
Gwyneth Jones Unplugged
The rise and fall of great companies
Toward a Cosmopolitan Science Fiction
Higgins argues that the depth of science fiction's engagement with imperial themes allows the genre to function as a critical literature of empire. As a literary mode engaged with imperial dream-work, science fiction addresses the operations of imperialism more fully than any other mode of cultural production, and it is from this deep understanding of empire (in both its colonial and neocolonial forms) that the genre produces rich cosmopolitan al…
Forgotten Heroes and Forgotten Issues”
This reassessment of the importance of trademarks in business during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries reveals that the focus by business historians on the beverage and processed-foodstuff industries has resulted in comparative neglect of the textile and metal-fabrication industries. The trademark histories of the latter two show that they followed their own paths, which resulted in their adopting three solutions to trademark issues th…
Do Metaphors Dream of Literal Sleep? A Science-Fictional Theory of Representation / The Seven Beauties of Science Fiction
Book Review| September 01 2012 Do Metaphors Dream of Literal Sleep? A Science-Fictional Theory of Representation / The Seven Beauties of Science Fiction Do Metaphors Dream of Literal Sleep? A Science-Fictional Theory of Representation. By Chu, Seo-Young. Cambridge: Harvard Univ. Press. 2010. 306 pp.$39.95.The Seven Beauties of Science Fiction. By Csicsery-Ronay, IstvanJr.Middletown, CT: Wesleyan Univ. Press. 2008. 323 pp.$27.95. David M. Higgins …
Introduction
Encyclopedia of 1970s SF
Psychic Decolonization in 1960s Science Fiction
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