News

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New Paper

Diane Dammers and Hendrik Fischer, The performance of German Big Business in the 20th Century, Cologne Economic History paper, No.1 (2009)

A key paper emerging from work undertaken by the European business performance project, in which the BHU played an important part.

New Book

Richard Coopey and Peter Lyth (eds.), Business in Britain in the Twentieth Century: Decline and Renaissance? (Oxford University Press, 2009)

Will interest members, if any, of the T R Gourvish Appreciation Society!! 

Current Projects

Our current ESRC Project, ‘Enterprise and Creativity: The British Popular Music Industry 1950-75’ [ref. RES-062-23-1100] is proceeding well.

The following papers have been written:

Richard Coopey:

You Say You Want a Revolution’: The British Popular Music Industry 1950-1975

Chandlerian Firms in a Hyper-Schumpetarian Environment: Enterprise in the Popular Music Industry in Britain

‘La, la, la, la, Liverpool’: Enterprise, Culture and the City in the Pop Industry During the 1960s

 Richard Coopey and Terry Gourvish:

‘Divided by a Common Sound’: markets and connexions in the British and US popular music industries, 1950-75

Controlling Fashion: Enterprise and the Popular Music Business in Britain 1950-1980

Terry Gourvish and Kevin Tennent:

Peterson and Berger revisited: Changing market dominance in the British popular music industry, c.1950-80, Business History, 52:2 (April 2010), 187-206

Terry Gourvish:

The British Popular Music Industry, 1950-75: archival challenges and solutions, Business Archives, 99 (November 2009), 25-39

The following people have been interviewed:

Joe Boyd, independent producer

Paul Wallace, Sanctuary

Martin Mills, Beggars Banquet

Pete Waterman, PW Ltd

Geoff Travis, Rough Trade records

Kenny Lynch, singer

Jon Kutner, chart compiler

Eric Nicoli, EMI

Jonathan King, UK Records

Terri Anderson, Music Week, BPI, PRS

Alison Wenham, AIM

Jon Webster, Virgin, MMF

Gail Colson, Charisma, Gailforce

Visitors

Professor Kazunori Sunagawa (Chuo University) is visiting the Unit [see his webpage].

Old news

BHU 30th Birthday, 2009

The Unit celebrated 30 years of research work in February 2009. At a lunch attended by the past director, Leslie Hannah, and the present director, Terry Gourvish, the toast was for a continuing contribution to the study of business in its historical context. 

Research Officer

Kevin Tennent has been appointed as Research Officer to the ESRC-supported project on 'Enterprise and Creativity: The British Popular Music Industry 1950-1975'. Mr Tennent is supporting the research work of Dr Terry Gourvish and Dr Richard Coopey.

Occasional Paper

The BHU's latest occasional paper is part of the research effort for the Leverhulme-supported project on 'The Performance of European Business in the Twentieth Century' . The title is Finnish Big Business in the 20th Century: Performance, Structure and Top Management, and the authors are Andrea Lorenz-Wende and Janne Itkonen. It is available from the Unit priced at £10.

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