Building co-operation : a business history of the co-operative group, 1863-2013 /

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Main Authors: Wilson, John F. (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut), Vorberg-Rugh, Rachael (http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut), Webster, Anthony (http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2013
Edition:First edition
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505 0 |a Contents note continued: 3.4.The CWS by 1890: A successful leader of the co-operative movement? -- 4.The Age of Expansion, 1890--1914 -- 4.1.The co-operative movement and retailing, 1890--1914 -- 4.2.Expanding production at home -- 4.3.CWS growth overseas -- 4.4.Serving co-operative societies -- 4.5.The structural challenges of growth -- 4.6.Managing a growing enterprise -- 4.7.Conclusions -- 5.War and Peace, 1914--38 -- 5.1.Co-operatives and the First World War -- 5.2.Peacetime conflicts, left and right -- 5.3.The General Co-operative Survey Committee -- 5.4.Troubled times -- 5.5.The CWS and inter-war politics -- 5.6.Doing business in troubled times -- 5.7.Reorganizing the CWS, 1929 and 1937 -- 5.8.Conclusions -- pt. II RETREAT AND RENAISSANCE -- 6.Co-operation in Retreat: War and Decline, 1939--73 -- 6.1.Historians and co-operative retreat -- 6.2.War---Again -- 6.3.Post-war challenges and inertia, 1945--55 -- 6.4.The Co-operative Independent Commission, 1955--8 -- 
505 0 |a Contents note continued: 6.5.The 1960s and early 1970s: Deepening difficulties and the CWS response -- 6.6.Conclusions -- 7.Adapting the Business Model, 1973--90 -- 7.1.Macro-economic trends and consumer behaviour -- 7.2.Merging with SCWS -- 7.3.Expanding the Bank -- 7.4.Rationalization and investment -- 7.5.Conclusions -- 8.The Watershed Decade -- 8.1.Early 1990s rationalization and corporate governance reform -- 8.2.The `family', The Co-operative Bank, and ethical trading -- 8.3.Regan's takeover bid -- 8.4.Impact -- 9.`Falling towards the Centre': A Twenty-First-Century `Renaissance' -- 9.1.Melmoth, the CRS, and the `family' concept -- 9.2.Beaumont, mergers, and market share -- 9.3.Marks and the `renaissance' -- 9.4.Conclusions -- 10.Conclusions -- 10.1.Evolution of the business model 
505 0 |a Contents note continued: 6.5.The 1960s and early 1970s: Deepening difficulties and the CWS response -- 6.6.Conclusions -- 7.Adapting the Business Model, 1973--90 -- 7.1.Macro-economic trends and consumer behaviour -- 7.2.Merging with SCWS -- 7.3.Expanding the Bank -- 7.4.Rationalization and investment -- 7.5.Conclusions -- 8.The Watershed Decade -- 8.1.Early 1990s rationalization and corporate governance reform -- 8.2.The f̀amily', The Co-operative Bank, and ethical trading -- 8.3.Regan's takeover bid -- 8.4.Impact -- 9.F̀alling towards the Centre': A Twenty-First-Century R̀enaissance' -- 9.1.Melmoth, the CRS, and the f̀amily' concept -- 9.2.Beaumont, mergers, and market share -- 9.3.Marks and the r̀enaissance' -- 9.4.Conclusions -- 10.Conclusions -- 10.1.Evolution of the business model 
505 0 |a Machine generated contents note: 1.Introduction -- 1.1.Why this book, and why now? -- 1.2.Building Co-operation---Some caveats -- 1.3.Towards a co-operative business history -- 1.4.The co-operative business model and The Co-operative Group -- 1.5.Organization -- pt. I RISE AND REIGN -- 2.The Roots and Rise of British Co-operation, c.1780--1863 -- 2.1.Co-operative initiatives before the 1840s -- 2.2.The Rochdale Pioneers and the Rochdale model -- 2.3.The spread of co-operation in England and experiments in wholesaling, 1844--63 -- 2.4.More concrete moves towards a wholesale society -- 3.The Rise of the CWS, 1863 to 1890: The Birth and Leadership of a Corporate Giant? -- 3.1.The context of co-operative development: British economic and social development, 1860--90, and the `retail revolution' -- 3.2.The co-operative movement and the `dominance of localism' -- 3.3.Building the CWS: The competitive `hothouse' and the rise of a commercial giant -- 
505 0 |a Machine generated contents note: 1.Introduction -- 1.1.Why this book, and why now? -- 1.2.Building Co-operation---Some caveats -- 1.3.Towards a co-operative business history -- 1.4.The co-operative business model and The Co-operative Group -- 1.5.Organization -- pt. I RISE AND REIGN -- 2.The Roots and Rise of British Co-operation, c.1780--1863 -- 2.1.Co-operative initiatives before the 1840s -- 2.2.The Rochdale Pioneers and the Rochdale model -- 2.3.The spread of co-operation in England and experiments in wholesaling, 1844--63 -- 2.4.More concrete moves towards a wholesale society -- 3.The Rise of the CWS, 1863 to 1890: The Birth and Leadership of a Corporate Giant? -- 3.1.The context of co-operative development: British economic and social development, 1860--90, and the r̀etail revolution' -- 3.2.The co-operative movement and the d̀ominance of localism' -- 3.3.Building the CWS: The competitive h̀othouse' and the rise of a commercial giant -- 
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