Roy Church
Biographic Data
| ID | 3715336 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Roy Church |
| GIVEN NAMES | Roy |
| FAMILY NAME | Church |
| SIGNATURE | CHURCH R |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of East Anglia |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 66 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 149 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 65 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1962 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
Production, Employment and Labour Productivity in the British Coalfields, 1830–1913: Some Reinterpretations
This chapter offers justification for, differences in the production and the employment figures on which the reinterpretations, and reinforces the conclusions prompted by the new estimates. It presents annual regional production estimates for the period 1830–1913 and explains the regional differences in output per man year (OMY) between 1831 and 1871 and explores explanations for the trends. The chapter outlines the significance for an inteipreta…
The Dynamics of Victorian Business
Beecham's, 1848–2000. From pills to pharmaceuticals
Beecham's, 1848–2000. From pills to pharmaceuticals, by T.A.B. Corley, Lancaster, Crucible Books, 2011, xii + 322 pp., £14.99 (paperback), ISBN 978-1-905472-14-7 Founded by Thomas Beecham in 1848
Strikes and Solidarity: Coalfield Conflict in Britain, 1889-1966
Salesmen and the transformation of selling in Britain and the US in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries1
Was a 'transformation of selling' in the US between the 1880s and 1930 exceptional? Archives of three leading British consumer goods companies reveal that a comparable transformation in selling methods was effected through the changing role for salesmen. Unlike the explanation offered for the transformation in the US, developments in Britain cannot be explained by a structural model in which the dynamics are mass production, size, corporate struc…
Trust, Burroughs Wellcome & Co. and the foundation of a modern pharmaceutical industry in Britain, 1880–1914
The literature relating to networks and organizational culture has acknowledged trust to be a valuable intangible asset. This article reviews the theoretical literature and the limited empirical research on trust in relation to business organizations and activity. Within this framework, the early history of Burroughs Wellcome & Co. reveals the importance of trust in building a cohesive organization and in establishing a reputation with the medica…
Purposive Strategy or Serendipity? Development and Diversification in Three Consumer Product Companies, 1918-39: J. & J. Colman, Reckitt & Sons, and Lever Bros./Unilever
(2003). Purposive Strategy or Serendipity? Development and Diversification in Three Consumer Product Companies, 1918-39: J. & J. Colman, Reckitt & Sons, and Lever Bros./Unilever. Business History: Vol. 45, No. 1, pp. 23-59
The Emergence Of Modern Marketing: Internation Dimensions
Introduction
Product Development of Branded, Packaged Household Goods in Britain, 1870–1914: Colman’s, Reckitt’s, and Lever Brothers
The three companies whose history forms the subject of this article became leaders in a sector of the British economy—consumer goods—generally regarded as one of the most successful in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Product innovation and development, achieved internally or through acquisition, enabled these firms to become market leaders. We therefore analyze the processes of product development within the three firms, using …
Ossified or Dynamic? Structure, Markets and the Competitive Process in the British Business System of the Nineteenth Century
This article challenges an interpretation of early and mid-Victorian business history which has emphasised the damaging effects observable during the late nineteenth century of a prior ossification of the industrial structure and of an associated lack of entrepreneurial vigour or aspiration towards growth. By focusing upon process rather than structure, the article underlines the intensity of competition in markets and innovative developments in …
Advertising consumer goods in nineteenth-centuary Britain: Reinterpretations
New perspectives on the history of products, firms, marketing, and consumers in Britain and the United States since the mid-nineteenth century 1
Strikes and Solidarity: Coalfield Conflict in Britain, 1889–1966
In this important contribution to the study of industrial relations, Roy Church and Quentin Outram present research into the strike activity of British coalminers from the late nineteenth century to the mid-1960s. The authors consider not only the major national strikes and lock-outs which made the industry a byword for industrial militancy, but also the multitude of small-scale strikes which formed a routine part of British colliery lifes. Strik…
The Rise and Decline of the British Motor Industry
Shorter Notices
Journal Article SHORTER NOTICES Get access ROY CHURCH ROY CHURCH University of East Anglia Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume CXI, Issue 444, November 1996, Pages 1335–1336, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/CXI.444.1335 Published: 01 November 1996
The Industrial Revolution
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Deconstructing Nuffield: The evolution of managerial culture in the British motor industry
For most of the period between I922 and I952, when the Nuffield organization merged with the Austin Motor Company Ltd. to form BMC, the motor companies owned by W. R. Morris, later Lord Nuffield, were the largest producers of cars and commercial vehicles in Britain. They maintained the biggest market share and were the most profitable British company in the industry. Yet the relative decline of Nuffield's companies' share in production and market…
Down and Out in Wigan and Barnsley: British Coal Mining Strikes Under Private Ownership
The authors investigate the determinants of strike activity in a random sample of British collieries in the 1927-38 period. A review of the literature leads to the identification of six models of intercolliery strike activity. After following a general-to-specific modeling strategy using probit and Tobit techniques, the authors conclude that the significant factors causing the observed intercolliery variation in strike propensity were colliery si…
The Rise and Decline of the British Motor Industry
Rowntree and the Marketing Revolution, 1862-1969
Rowntree and the Marketing Revolution, 1862–1969 is a major study in the history of marketing in economic development, in addition to being a history of a well-known international company. Marketing history remains a neglected field of study, yet Rowntree's commercial success has been the direct result of applied marketing methods and major advances in product development, branding and advertising. It is surprising that marketing and mass consump…
The Rise and Decline of the British Motor Industry
Part 1 The origins of British pre-eminence in Europe: the rise of the British motor industry before 1914 war and its aftermath - gains and losses the framework of protection - home and overseas demand Fordism and the British system of mass production - technology and labour the dynamics and limitations of personal capitalism Fordism and the British approach to markets and marketing debilitating environment - scale, structure and strategies. Part …
The Checkland Memorial Lecture HOW DID Business THINK
Entrepreneurship, Networks and Modern Business
Part 1 Entrepreneurial and business culture: the entrepreneur - the central issue in business history?, T.A.B. Corley entrepreneurship and business culture, Mark Casson business education and managerial performance - a study comparing Japan and America to France, Germany and England, Robert Lockie engineers as functional alternatives to entrepreneurs in Japanese industrialization, Kenichi Yasumuro. Part 2 Entrepreneurial success and failure in fa…
Accounting for Profitability at the Consett Iron Company before 1914: Measurement, Sources, and Uses
Roy Church, Trevor Baldwin, Bob Berry, Accounting for Profitability at the Consett Iron Company before 1914: Measurement, Sources, and Uses, The Economic History Review, New Series, Vol. 47, No. 4 (Nov., 1994), pp. 703-724
The Origins of Railway Enterprise: The Stockton and Darlington Railway, 1821-1863
The Family Firm in Industrial Capitalism: International Perspectives on Hypotheses and History
This comparative analysis of the international literature on family firms takes A.D. Chandler's concept of ‘personal capitalism’, presented in Scale and Scope, as the theoretical frame of reference. The article focuses principally on Britain, particularly the thesis that large family firms were probably major contributors to national economic decline during the first half of the twentieth century. However, comparisons drawn between the characteri…
New perspectives on the history of products, firms, marketing, and consumers in Britain and the United States since the mid-nineteenth century 1
Advertising consumer goods in nineteenth-centuary Britain: Reinterpretations
Economic and Social Change in a Midland Town. Victorian Nottingham, 1815- 1900
Journal Article R. A. Church. Economic and Social Change in a Midland Town. Victorian Nottingham, 1815- 1900 Get access Economic and Social Change in a Midland Town. Victorian Nottingham, 1815Â 1900. By R. A. Church. (London: Frank Cass, 1966. Pp. xxiv + 409. 75s.) B. R. Mitchell B. R. Mitchell Department of Applied Economics, Cambridge. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Economic Journal, Volume 77, Issu…
The History of the British Coal Industry. Volume 2: 1830-1913. Victorian Pre-eminence
Purposive Strategy or Serendipity? Development and Diversification in Three Consumer Product Companies, 1918-39: J. & J. Colman, Reckitt & Sons, and Lever Bros./Unilever
(2003). Purposive Strategy or Serendipity? Development and Diversification in Three Consumer Product Companies, 1918-39: J. & J. Colman, Reckitt & Sons, and Lever Bros./Unilever. Business History: Vol. 45, No. 1, pp. 23-59
The Emergence Of Modern Marketing: Internation Dimensions
Introduction
Product Development of Branded, Packaged Household Goods in Britain, 1870–1914: Colman’s, Reckitt’s, and Lever Brothers
The three companies whose history forms the subject of this article became leaders in a sector of the British economy—consumer goods—generally regarded as one of the most successful in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Product innovation and development, achieved internally or through acquisition, enabled these firms to become market leaders. We therefore analyze the processes of product development within the three firms, using …
Ossified or Dynamic? Structure, Markets and the Competitive Process in the British Business System of the Nineteenth Century
This article challenges an interpretation of early and mid-Victorian business history which has emphasised the damaging effects observable during the late nineteenth century of a prior ossification of the industrial structure and of an associated lack of entrepreneurial vigour or aspiration towards growth. By focusing upon process rather than structure, the article underlines the intensity of competition in markets and innovative developments in …
Business Life and Public Policy: Essays in Honour of D. C. Coleman
The Effect of the American Export Invasion on the British Boot and Shoe Industry 1885–1914
Recent articles have drawn attention to the general significance of the American export “invasion” in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Novack and Simon have concentrated on the origins of the invasion and on the attitudes of American businessmen, and to a lesser extent of others, to it. Elsewhere, Saul has considered the impact of intensified American competition upon British industry, underlining the need to reexamine the proce…
Salesmen and the transformation of selling in Britain and the US in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries1
Was a 'transformation of selling' in the US between the 1880s and 1930 exceptional? Archives of three leading British consumer goods companies reveal that a comparable transformation in selling methods was effected through the changing role for salesmen. Unlike the explanation offered for the transformation in the US, developments in Britain cannot be explained by a structural model in which the dynamics are mass production, size, corporate struc…
The Militancy of British Miners, 1893-1986: Interdisciplinary Problems and Perspectives
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Nineteenth-Century Clock Technology in Britain, the United States, and Switzerland
Deconstructing Nuffield: The evolution of managerial culture in the British motor industry
For most of the period between I922 and I952, when the Nuffield organization merged with the Austin Motor Company Ltd. to form BMC, the motor companies owned by W. R. Morris, later Lord Nuffield, were the largest producers of cars and commercial vehicles in Britain. They maintained the biggest market share and were the most profitable British company in the industry. Yet the relative decline of Nuffield's companies' share in production and market…
Accounting for Profitability at the Consett Iron Company before 1914: Measurement, Sources, and Uses
Roy Church, Trevor Baldwin, Bob Berry, Accounting for Profitability at the Consett Iron Company before 1914: Measurement, Sources, and Uses, The Economic History Review, New Series, Vol. 47, No. 4 (Nov., 1994), pp. 703-724
Edwardian Labour Unrest and Coalfield Militancy, 1890–1914
For many years a consensus among historians of the Edwardian age drew a contrast between the essentially stable, liberal society of the late Victorian years, when discussion, compromise and orderly behaviour were the norm, and an Edwardian society in which tacit conventions governing the conduct of those involved in social and political movements began to be rejected – by Pankhurst feminists, Ulster Unionists, trade union militants and syndicalis…
Profit-Sharing and Labour Relations in England in the Nineteenth Century
An examination of the history of profit-sharing and co-partnership in England in the nineteenth century serves two purposes. One is to add to the growing body of evidence which contradicts the generalization that in the third quarter of the nineteenth century trade unionists were beginning to espouse the capitalist ethic; the other aim of this paper is to draw attention to one of three innovations in the history of labour relations in this period…
Trust, Burroughs Wellcome & Co. and the foundation of a modern pharmaceutical industry in Britain, 1880–1914
The literature relating to networks and organizational culture has acknowledged trust to be a valuable intangible asset. This article reviews the theoretical literature and the limited empirical research on trust in relation to business organizations and activity. Within this framework, the early history of Burroughs Wellcome & Co. reveals the importance of trust in building a cohesive organization and in establishing a reputation with the medica…
The British Leather Industry and Foreign Competition, 1870-1914
The Industrial Revolution
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The 'Isolated Mass' Revisited: Strikes in British Coal Mining
The authors examine how far inter-colliery variations in local strike activity in Britain between the Wars can be explained by the characteristics of their immediate localities highlighted by Kerr and Siegel's 'isolated mass' theory. A regression analysis suggests that some of the variables indicated by Kerr and Siegel did affect strike activity but only weakly. A contingency table analysis confirms that some of the Kerr-Siegel variables serve to…
An Economic History of England, 1870-1939 . William Ashworth
An Aspect of Family Enterprise in the Industrial Revolution
1 The principal source for this article is the small collection of the Gotch family papers consisting of account books, ledgers, letters and sundry documents which are deposited in the Northamptonshire County Record Office at Delapre Abbey. Contemporary newspapers supplement the accounts of the bankruptcy. Notes 1 The principal source for this article is the small collection of the Gotch family papers consisting of account books, ledgers, letters…
Competition and Monopoly in the Coffin Furniture Industry, 1870–1915
Messrs Gotch & Sons and the Rise of the Kettering Footwear Industry
Economic and Social Change in a Midland Town. Victorian Nottingham, 1815- 1900
Journal Article R. A. Church. Economic and Social Change in a Midland Town. Victorian Nottingham, 1815- 1900 Get access Economic and Social Change in a Midland Town. Victorian Nottingham, 1815Â 1900. By R. A. Church. (London: Frank Cass, 1966. Pp. xxiv + 409. 75s.) B. R. Mitchell B. R. Mitchell Department of Applied Economics, Cambridge. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Economic Journal, Volume 77, Issu…
The Effect of the American Export Invasion on the British Boot and Shoe Industry 1885–1914
Recent articles have drawn attention to the general significance of the American export “invasion” in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Novack and Simon have concentrated on the origins of the invasion and on the attitudes of American businessmen, and to a lesser extent of others, to it. Elsewhere, Saul has considered the impact of intensified American competition upon British industry, underlining the need to reexamine the proce…
Hollins and Viyella: A Study in Business History
The Cotton Trade of Great Britain
Economic and Social Change in a Midland Town: Victorian Nottingham, 1815-1900
John Heathcoat, 1783-1861, Founder of the Machine-Made Lace Industry
Labour Supply and Innovation 1800–1860: The Boot and Shoe Industry
Profit-Sharing and Labour Relations in England in the Nineteenth Century
An examination of the history of profit-sharing and co-partnership in England in the nineteenth century serves two purposes. One is to add to the growing body of evidence which contradicts the generalization that in the third quarter of the nineteenth century trade unionists were beginning to espouse the capitalist ethic; the other aim of this paper is to draw attention to one of three innovations in the history of labour relations in this period…
The British Leather Industry and Foreign Competition, 1870-1914
Paper Making in the British Isles. An Historical and Geographical Study
Kenrick's in Hardware: A Family Business 1791-1966
The Great Victorian Boom 1850–1873
Kenricks in Hardware, a Family Business: 1791-1966
Nineteenth-Century Clock Technology in Britain, the United States, and Switzerland
Myths, Men and Motor Cars: A Review Article
Management Strategy and Business Development: An Historical and Comparative Study
Ladybird, Ladybird: A Story of Private Enterprise
Herbert Austin: The British Motor Car Industry to 1941
Herbert Austin: The British Motor Car Industry to 1941
Herbert Austin: The British Motor Car Industry to 1941
The Dynamics of Victorian Business. Problems and Perspectives to the 1870s
Introduction 1. Problems and Perspectives, R.A. Church 2. The coal industry, A.J. Taylor 3. The iron industry, P.J. Riden 4. The engineering industry, A.E. Musson 5. The shipbuilding industry, A. Slaven 6. Railway enterprise, T.R. Gourvish 7. The building industry, E.W. Cooney 8. The cotton textile industry, C.H. Lee 9. The woollen textile industry, E.M. Sigsworth 10. The shoe and Leather industries, R.A. Church 11. The drink trades, R.B. Weir 12…
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