The health care industry is one of the few sectors in which Britain can claim a competitive advantage. Widely recognized as one of the most successful British manufacturing companies of the early 1990s, Smith & Nephew is the ideal example from which to isolate the sources of competitiveness.Smith & Nephew, a Hull based firm, was founded in 1856 and later linked up with Lancashire's cotton mills and the small workshops of Birmingham and London. During the 1980s Smith & Nephew grew from essentially a British company, with subsidiaries in Commonwealth countries and part ownership of some continental European firms, into a global health care business firmly established in Europe, North America and other key markets around the world. By the 1990s Smith & Nephew had become one of the select band of world class British manufacturing companies.
This authoritative book provides an invaluable description of the origins and rise of one of Britain's most successful manufacturing companies. As the first comprehensive assessment of this significant company's history, the book will be welcomed by all those with an interest in corporate success, the evolution of health care and business history.
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'. . . this book shows the advantages of getting an economically-trained scholar to write a corporate history.' -- T.A.B. Corley, The Economic Journal 'This volume is to be welcomed for widening the scope of recent research by business historians on the British pharmaceutical industry. . .' -- Sally M. Horrocks, Social History of Medicine 'James Foreman-Peck, a widely respected economic historian, has written an informative, tightly organized history of one of Britain's most prosperous companies. Smith and Nephew in the Health Care Industry deserves space in business history collections.' -- Robert Whaples, Business Library Review
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Für höhere Schule und Studium
Maße
Höhe: 234 mm
Breite: 156 mm
ISBN-13
978-1-85898-085-0 (9781858980850)
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Schweitzer Klassifikation
James Foreman-Peck, Cardiff Business School, UK
Pharmacy and business in Hull, 1856-1896; 19th century origins - family enterprise in Birmingham and Lancashire; development of the health care market, 1850-1939; growth and diversification - Elastoplast, Cellona and Lilia, 1896-1939; strategy and structure between the World Wars; the health care market since 1945; health care and cosmetics; textile developments; research, pharmaceuticals and plastics; Smith and Nephew overseas, 1906-1980; finance, management and philanthropy; globalization in the 1980s.
