Gourvish, Terence


Dr Terence Gourvish  

Department

Position held

Business History Unit

Director of the Business History Unit

Department of Economic History

Centre for Analysis of Risk and Regulation (CARR)

Non LSE positions held

Department

Position held

Business Archives Council

Chairman

Experience keywords:

popular music industry; Channel Tunnel; brewing industry; business history of UK and Europe, especially railways

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I am one of the UK's leading business historians, specialising in the history of public sector enterprise and privatisation, and in particular the railways. Wrote a commissioned history of the British brewing industry and the official history of the Channel Tunnel for UK government. Also interested in management, business organisation and risk. Active in field of business archives.

Sectors and industries to which research relates:

Energy

Countries and regions to which research relates:

Europe; UK; Japan; US

Languages:

French [Spoken: Basic, Written: Basic]

Media experience:

Has written for mainstream pressRadioTV

Contact Points

LSE phone number:

+44 (0)20 7955 7073

Publications

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2011

Gourvish, Terry, (ed.) (2011) Business and politics in Europe, 1900–1970: essays in honour of Alice Teichova. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK. ISBN 9781107402744

Gourvish, Terry (2011) Introduction: business and politics in Europe, 1900–1970: essays in honour of Alice Teichova. In: Gourvish, Terry, (ed.) business and politics in Europe, 1900–1970: essays in honour of Alice Teichova. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK, pp. 1-16. ISBN 9781107402744

2008

Gourvish, Terry (2008) Britain's railway 1997-2005: Labour's strategic experiment. Oxford University Press, Oxford, UK. ISBN 9780199236602

2006

Gourvish, Terry (2006) The official history of Britain and the Channel Tunnel. Routledge, London, UK. ISBN 9780415391832

Gourvish, Terry (2006) What can business history tell us about business performance? Competition and change, 10 (4). pp. 375-392. ISSN 1024-5294

2003

Gourvish, Terry (2003) Introduction: the business-government relationship. In: Gourvish, Terry, (ed.) Business and politics in Europe, 1900-1970: essays in honour of Alice Teichova. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK, pp. 1-14. ISBN 0521823447

2002

Gourvish, Terry (2002) British Rail 1974-1997: from integration to privatisation. OUP, Oxford. ISBN 0199250057

Gourvish, Terry (2002) Americanisation, cultural transfers in the economic sphere: a comment. In: Kipping, M. and Tiratsoo, N., (eds.) Americanisation in 20th century Europe: business, culture, politics. Centre d'Histoire de l'Europe du Nord-Ouest, Lille, France. ISBN 9782905637444

2000

Armstrong, John and Gourvish, Terry (2000) London's railways: their contribution to solving the problem of growth and expansion. Japan railway & transport review, (23). pp. 4-13. ISSN 1342-7512

1999

Gourvish, Terry, (ed.) (1999) European yearbook of business history. Ashgate, Aldershot, UK. ISBN 1462-186x

Gourvish, Terry (1999) Los ferrocarriles como medio de transporte en Gran Bretaña, 1830-1990. In: Muñoz Rubio, Miguel and Sanz Fernandez, Jesús and Vidal Olivares, Javier, (eds.) Siglo y medio del ferrocarril en España, 1848-1998: economía, industria y sociedad. Fundación de los Ferrocarriles Españoles, Madrid, Spain, pp. 55-64. ISBN 9788488675623

Gourvish, Terry (1999) The regulation of Britain's railways: past, present and future. In: Andersson-Skog, Lena and Krantz, Olle, (eds.) Institutions in the transport and communications industries: state and private actors in the making of institutional patterns, 1850-1990. Science History Publishing, Canton, USA, pp. 117-132. ISBN 9780881352016

1997

Gourvish, Terry and Tolliday, Steven, (eds.) (1997) International bibliography of business history. Routledge, London. ISBN 0415086418

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Awards

Newcomen Society of North America Prize, 1974
Basil Yamey Prize, 1995 Wadsworth Prize, 1995, 2007

 

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