Concentration in British Industry
An Empirical Study of the Structure of Industrial Production 1935-51
1st Edition
Published on 30. June 2011
Book
Paperback/Softback
374 pages
978-1-107-60134-5 (ISBN)
Description
Concentration data - which expresses the relative importance of the largest firms in an industry - covering almost the entire range of British industry, were made available for this study, first published in 1960, by the Board of Trade. The authors combined with each industry's concentration-ratio with the average and relative sizes of its constituent firms and plants, and so sought to determine its structural type. Then, by comparing these results with those of an earlier study, they established in which trades significant changes in concentration occurred since 1935. Two chapters describe how the leading firms in such highly concentrated trades as sugar refining, wallpaper, matches, explosives, tinplate and oil-refining grew over the years and how they maintained their position. There is also a discussion of the relevance of such factors as mergers, nationalisation, technological changes, illustrated by reference to brief case-studies of twenty trades.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Cambridge
United Kingdom
Target group
College/higher education
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Paperback (trade)
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Worked examples or Exercises
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 156 mm
Thickness: 20 mm
Weight
567 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-107-60134-5 (9781107601345)
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Content
List of tables; List of figures; Preface; General introduction and summary of findings; Part I. Concepts and Methodology: 1. Concentration and the census trade; 2. Concentration, industry structure and plant structure; 3. Concentration and monopoly power; Part II. Concentration and Industry Structure in 1951: 4. Concentration in 1951; 5. Industry structure in 1951; 6. Plant structure in 1951; 7. Statistical analysis of factors relating to concentration; 8. The growth of leading firms in the high-concentration trades; 9. Factors contributing to the maintenance of high concentration; Part III. Changes in Concentration, 1935-51: 10. Changes in concentration: some problems of methodology; 11. Changes in concentration and factors relating to concentration, 1935-51; 12. Factors contributing to changes in concentration, 1935-51; Part IV. Case-Studies of Trades with Changes in Concentration, 1935-51: 13. Introduction to industry case-studies; 14. Trades with increased concentration; 15. Trades with decreased concentration; Appendices; General index; Index of companies; Index of trades.