Leslie Hannah
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 3713756 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Leslie Hannah |
| PRENOMES | Leslie |
| SOBRENOME | Hannah |
| ASSINATURA | HANNAH L |
| AFILIAÇÕES | London School of Economics and Political Science |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0839-7412 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 58 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 241 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 58 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1974 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2024 |
| ÍNDICE H | 8 |
Informed investors, screening, and sorting on the London capital market, 1891-1913
Business forms and business performance in UK manufacturing 1871-81
We explore which business forms were predominant in the later Victorian economy and why some forms were more effective among large British manufacturing firms during this period. With a dataset of 483 manufacturing firms in 1881 that either employed at least 1000 or had done so a decade earlier, we find that the great majority were partnerships. Public corporations attained higher capital-labour ratios and stronger employment growth than other bu…
British employer census returns in new digital records 1851–81; consistency, non-response, and truncation – what this means for analysis
Newly available digital resources from the British census identify employers and their workforce size. However, there was a non-response rate of about 2.3% for smaller firms, rising to over 10% for firms over about 300 employees, and higher for the largest manufacturing firms. Non-responses are largely random except for different forms of business organization: significantly higher for corporates, and lower for unincorporated enterprises, but wit…
Large-scale Victorian manufacturers
This study presents the first available-and near-complete-list of large UK manufacturers in 1881, by complementing the employer data from that year's population census (recovered by the British Business Census of Entrepreneurs project) with employment and capital estimates from other sources. The 438 largest firms with 1 000 or more employees accounted for around one-sixth of manufacturing output. Examples can be found in most industries. Exploit…
The London Stock Exchange, 1869-1929
Newly assembled datasets on the size and composition of the London Stock Exchange present some results contradicting conventional wisdom. A forensic examination of one study of corporate equities in the Investor's Monthly Manual between 1869 and 1929 suggests both idiosyncratic mistakes and generic biases that limit the usefulness of this source
The power of corporate networks
The power of corporate networks: a comparative and historical perspective." Business History, 58(8), pp. 1289–1290
Twentieth-Century Enterprise Forms
Corporate laws -and the differential effects of their menus of organizational forms on business efficiency -have recently attracted attention. La Porta and researchers connected with the World Bank proposed the "law and finance" hypothesis: that common law systems (concentrated in the "Anglosphere") 1 promoted stock exchange development, optimal business contracting, new business formation and economic efficiency. 2 By contrast the Franco-German …
Twentieth-Century Enterprise Forms
La Porta et al. see common law as most favorable to corporate development and economic growth, but Japanese legislators explicitly based their system on German civil law. However, Japan’s commercial code of 1899 omitted the GmbH (private company) form, which Guinnane et al. see as the jewel in the crown of Germany’s organizational menu. Neither apparent “mistake” retarded Japan’s adoption of the corporate form, because its commercial code offered…
A global corporate census
In 1910 the world had almost half a million corporations, only one-hundredth of today's total. About one-fifth-with over half of corporate capital-were publicly tradable, higher portions than today. Most publicly quoted corporations traded in Europe and the British Empire, but most close (private) corporations operated in the US, which, until the 1940s, had more corporations per capita than anywhere else. The 83 countries surveyed here differed m…
The diffusion and impact of the corporation in 1910
With new and comprehensive data on the international spread of listed and unlisted corporations before the First World War, this article shows the prominence of common law and Scandinavian civil law in the process. This association is interpreted as demonstrating the strong contribution of liberal (laissez-faire) industrial stances. The findings confirm an extended version of Rajan and Zingales's hypothesis that trade and capital openness are nec…
Some consequences of the early twentieth-century British divorce of ownership from control
This article refers to:Some consequences of the early twentieth-century British divorce of ownership from control
The Rise of the Modern Firm
In the manner of others in the Edward Elgar series, this collection of reprints will largely be of interest to university libraries which lack good collections of journals or wish to offer convenie
Some consequences of the early twentieth-century British divorce of ownership from control
Because ownership was already more divorced from control in the largest stock market of 1911 (London) than in the largest stock market of 1995 (New York), the consequences for the economy, for good or ill, could have been considerable. Using a large sample of quoted companies with capital of £1 million or more, this article shows that this separation did not generally operate against shareholders' interests, despite the very substantial potential…
La France et les pays anglo-saxons face au développement de la gestion
International audience
Extreme divorce
We present the first broadly representative study for any early twentieth-century economy of the extent to which quoted company ownership was already divorced from managerial control. In the 337 largest, independent, UK companies in the Investor's year book (those with £1 million or more quoted share capital in 1911), the generality of public shareholders were a narrower group than today, but directors personally owned only 3.4 per cent of the sh…
L'histoire économique en Grande-Bretagne
Il a paru intéressant pour ce numéro, consacré à la fois à la situation\nde l’histoire économique dans notre pays et aux nouvelles recherches\nqui s’y développent, d’interroger un historien britannique qui a une\nlarge expérience internationale et une bonne connaissance de la\nFrance. En répondant aux questions d’un historien économiste, d’un\néconomiste historien et d’une gestionnaire tentée par l’histoire, Leslie\nHannah en dresse un tableau à …
Pioneering Modern Corporate Governance
Around 1900 Britain was exceptionally suited to pioneering large scale enterprises because of the precocious development of its equity markets and London's experimentation with a more eclectic range of corporate governance techniques than the world's smaller and less cosmopolitan financial centers. Information dissemination, incentives, and reputation—developed by a serendipitous mix of legal compulsions and flexible voluntarism—set the scene for…
Clin d'œil
The ‘Divorce’ of ownership from control from 1900 onwards
In 1900 US business corporations were dominated by plutocratic family owners, while British and French quoted companies showed higher levels of divorce of shareholding owners from management controllers. Distinctive European 'democratic' corporate governance rules explain some of Europe's precocity and London's distinctive listing requirement of large 'free floats' was an important initial factor in manufacturing. Later in the twentieth century, …
The Whig Fable of American Tobacco, 1895–1913
At the beginning of the twentieth century, U.S. tobacco manufacturers were not forging ahead of their leading European counterparts in technology, productivity, or managerial techniques. On some indicators, including per capita cigarette consumption, the United States strikingly lagged. Fiscal discrimination against cigarettes, amplified by the monopoly pricing, strategic choices, and organizational overload of the American Tobacco trust, were am…
The Political Economy of Nationalisation in Britain, 1920-1950
Business Enterprise in Modern Britain
Part I: The origins of the factory system in Great Britain the family firm in British business in the 18th and 19th centuries financing firms, 1700-1850 big business before 1900. Part II: The corporate economy in Britain British multinationals and British business since 1850 the competitive environment of British business, 1850-1914 concentration and competition in the retail sector c1800-1990 the growth of the firm in the domestic banking sector…
Contrived Competition
Scale and Scope
(1991). Scale and Scope: Towards a European Visible Hand? Business History: Vol. 33, No. 2, pp. 297-309
Small, medium, large
The ‘Divorce’ of ownership from control from 1900 onwards
In 1900 US business corporations were dominated by plutocratic family owners, while British and French quoted companies showed higher levels of divorce of shareholding owners from management controllers. Distinctive European 'democratic' corporate governance rules explain some of Europe's precocity and London's distinctive listing requirement of large 'free floats' was an important initial factor in manufacturing. Later in the twentieth century, …
Britain's Economic Problem
Britain's economic problem : too few producers , Britain's economic problem : too few producers , کتابخانه دیجیتال و فن آوری اطلاعات دانشگاه امام صادق(ع)
Extreme divorce
We present the first broadly representative study for any early twentieth-century economy of the extent to which quoted company ownership was already divorced from managerial control. In the 337 largest, independent, UK companies in the Investor's year book (those with £1 million or more quoted share capital in 1911), the generality of public shareholders were a narrower group than today, but directors personally owned only 3.4 per cent of the sh…
Pioneering Modern Corporate Governance
Around 1900 Britain was exceptionally suited to pioneering large scale enterprises because of the precocious development of its equity markets and London's experimentation with a more eclectic range of corporate governance techniques than the world's smaller and less cosmopolitan financial centers. Information dissemination, incentives, and reputation—developed by a serendipitous mix of legal compulsions and flexible voluntarism—set the scene for…
Some consequences of the early twentieth-century British divorce of ownership from control
Because ownership was already more divorced from control in the largest stock market of 1911 (London) than in the largest stock market of 1995 (New York), the consequences for the economy, for good or ill, could have been considerable. Using a large sample of quoted companies with capital of £1 million or more, this article shows that this separation did not generally operate against shareholders' interests, despite the very substantial potential…
A global corporate census
In 1910 the world had almost half a million corporations, only one-hundredth of today's total. About one-fifth-with over half of corporate capital-were publicly tradable, higher portions than today. Most publicly quoted corporations traded in Europe and the British Empire, but most close (private) corporations operated in the US, which, until the 1940s, had more corporations per capita than anywhere else. The 83 countries surveyed here differed m…
The Whig Fable of American Tobacco, 1895–1913
At the beginning of the twentieth century, U.S. tobacco manufacturers were not forging ahead of their leading European counterparts in technology, productivity, or managerial techniques. On some indicators, including per capita cigarette consumption, the United States strikingly lagged. Fiscal discrimination against cigarettes, amplified by the monopoly pricing, strategic choices, and organizational overload of the American Tobacco trust, were am…
Scale and Scope
(1991). Scale and Scope: Towards a European Visible Hand? Business History: Vol. 33, No. 2, pp. 297-309
Engineers, Managers and Politicians
New Issues in British Business History
Business history has been a thriving academic industry in Britain for the last three decades. Following some pioneering case studies of Industrial Revolution entrepreneurs by the early giants of the discipline of economic history, the postwar generation has produced a series of high quality company histories. The first of these, published in 1954, was Charles Wilson's history of the Anglo-Dutch multinational Unilever, formed by a merger of Lever …
Managerial Innovation and the Rise of the Large-Scale Company in Interwar Britain
The London Stock Exchange, 1869-1929
Newly assembled datasets on the size and composition of the London Stock Exchange present some results contradicting conventional wisdom. A forensic examination of one study of corporate equities in the Investor's Monthly Manual between 1869 and 1929 suggests both idiosyncratic mistakes and generic biases that limit the usefulness of this source
Twentieth-Century Enterprise Forms
La Porta et al. see common law as most favorable to corporate development and economic growth, but Japanese legislators explicitly based their system on German civil law. However, Japan’s commercial code of 1899 omitted the GmbH (private company) form, which Guinnane et al. see as the jewel in the crown of Germany’s organizational menu. Neither apparent “mistake” retarded Japan’s adoption of the corporate form, because its commercial code offered…
Mergers and Economic Performance
Journal Article Mergers and Economic Performance Get access Mergers and Economic Performance. By Keith Cowling, Paul Stoneman et al. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1980. Pp. viii + 379. £19.50.) Leslie Hannah Leslie Hannah London School of Economics Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Economic Journal, Volume 91, Issue 364, 1 December 1981, Pages 1056–1057, https://doi.org/10.2307/2232523 Publishe…
Large-scale Victorian manufacturers
This study presents the first available-and near-complete-list of large UK manufacturers in 1881, by complementing the employer data from that year's population census (recovered by the British Business Census of Entrepreneurs project) with employment and capital estimates from other sources. The 438 largest firms with 1 000 or more employees accounted for around one-sixth of manufacturing output. Examples can be found in most industries. Exploit…
The diffusion and impact of the corporation in 1910
With new and comprehensive data on the international spread of listed and unlisted corporations before the First World War, this article shows the prominence of common law and Scandinavian civil law in the process. This association is interpreted as demonstrating the strong contribution of liberal (laissez-faire) industrial stances. The findings confirm an extended version of Rajan and Zingales's hypothesis that trade and capital openness are nec…
British employer census returns in new digital records 1851–81; consistency, non-response, and truncation – what this means for analysis
Newly available digital resources from the British census identify employers and their workforce size. However, there was a non-response rate of about 2.3% for smaller firms, rising to over 10% for firms over about 300 employees, and higher for the largest manufacturing firms. Non-responses are largely random except for different forms of business organization: significantly higher for corporates, and lower for unincorporated enterprises, but wit…
The Political Economy of Nationalisation in Britain, 1920-1950
Entrepreneurs and the Social Sciences
The burden of occupying the first established chair of business history at the. London School of Economics (and indeed the first in Britain) is happily lightened by the knowledge that the field is by no means as bereft of research and scholarship as this priority implies. The first two professors of economic history appointed at LSE fifty years ago, Eileen Power and R.H. Tawney, made distinguished contributions, to the study of medieval traders a…
Electricity Before Nationalisation. A Study of the Development of the Electricity Supply Industry in Britain to 1948
Journal Article Electricity Before Nationalisation. A Study of the Development of The Electricity Supply Industry in Britain to 1948 Get access Electricity Before Nationalisation. A Study of the Development of The Electricity Supply Industry in Britain to 1948. By LESLIE HANNAH. (London: Macmillan, 1979. Pp. xiii + 467. £15.00.) John Oxborrow John Oxborrow University of Kent Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar…
Informed investors, screening, and sorting on the London capital market, 1891-1913
Business forms and business performance in UK manufacturing 1871-81
We explore which business forms were predominant in the later Victorian economy and why some forms were more effective among large British manufacturing firms during this period. With a dataset of 483 manufacturing firms in 1881 that either employed at least 1000 or had done so a decade earlier, we find that the great majority were partnerships. Public corporations attained higher capital-labour ratios and stronger employment growth than other bu…
Why Employer-based Pension Plans? The Case of Britain
Private savings–often through employer-based pension plans–account for a larger proportion of retirement incomes in Britain than elsewhere. The strength of employer–based pension plans in Britain can be traced to a variety of factors; their early development and security are emphasized. The pattern of spread, with heavy concentration initially in bureaucratic firms, suggests that old-age saving entered the employment relationship around 1900 beca…
American Business History
Many people have helped in the compilation of this report. I am particularly grateful to those at business schools in Bradford, London, Manchester and Scotland who discussed with me the problems they faced and to management teachers in other universities and polytechnics who were good enough to correspond with me on the subject. On the other side of the Atlantic, where more progress has been made in this field, I visited eleven institutions-Berke…
The Rise of the Corporate Economy
Managerial Innovation and the Rise of the Large-Scale Company in Interwar Britain
Britain's Economic Problem
Britain's economic problem : too few producers , Britain's economic problem : too few producers , کتابخانه دیجیتال و فن آوری اطلاعات دانشگاه امام صادق(ع)
Management Strategy and Business Development
The Rise of the Corporate Economy
Management Strategy and Business Development
Board of Trade
Concentration in Modern Industry
Journal Article Concentration in Modern Industry Get access Concentration in Modern Industry. By LESLIE HANNAH and J. A. KAY. (London: Macmillan Press, 1977. Pp. xiv + 144. £10.00.) K. D. George K. D. George University College, Cardiff Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Economic Journal, Volume 88, Issue 349, 1 March 1978, Pages 144–146, https://doi.org/10.2307/2232021 Published: 01 March 1978
Concentration in Modern Industry
Electricity Before Nationalisation. A Study of the Development of the Electricity Supply Industry in Britain to 1948
Journal Article Electricity Before Nationalisation. A Study of the Development of The Electricity Supply Industry in Britain to 1948 Get access Electricity Before Nationalisation. A Study of the Development of The Electricity Supply Industry in Britain to 1948. By LESLIE HANNAH. (London: Macmillan, 1979. Pp. xiii + 467. £15.00.) John Oxborrow John Oxborrow University of Kent Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar…
Electricity before Nationalization
Bridge Hall Mills
Electricity before Nationalisation
The Rise of the Corporate Economy
Courtaulds
American Business History
Many people have helped in the compilation of this report. I am particularly grateful to those at business schools in Bradford, London, Manchester and Scotland who discussed with me the problems they faced and to management teachers in other universities and polytechnics who were good enough to correspond with me on the subject. On the other side of the Atlantic, where more progress has been made in this field, I visited eleven institutions-Berke…
Beardmore
Mergers and Economic Performance
Journal Article Mergers and Economic Performance Get access Mergers and Economic Performance. By Keith Cowling, Paul Stoneman et al. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1980. Pp. viii + 379. £19.50.) Leslie Hannah Leslie Hannah London School of Economics Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Economic Journal, Volume 91, Issue 364, 1 December 1981, Pages 1056–1057, https://doi.org/10.2307/2232523 Publishe…
British Industry between the Wars
Memoirs of a Socialist Businessman
Short Notices
Short Notices Get access LESLIE HANNAH LESLIE HANNAH London School of Economics & Political Science Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume XCVII, Issue CCCLXXXII, January 1982, Pages 234-b–234, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/XCVII.CCCLXXXII.234-b Published: 01 January 1982
German Yearbook on Business History, 1981
Engineers, Managers and Politicians
New Issues in British Business History
Business history has been a thriving academic industry in Britain for the last three decades. Following some pioneering case studies of Industrial Revolution entrepreneurs by the early giants of the discipline of economic history, the postwar generation has produced a series of high quality company histories. The first of these, published in 1954, was Charles Wilson's history of the Anglo-Dutch multinational Unilever, formed by a merger of Lever …
Accounting for British Steel
On Electrified Societies Networks of Power
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