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Gourvish, Terence

Dr Terence Gourvish  

Department

Position held

Business History Unit

Director of the Business History Unit

 

Centre for Analysis of Risk and Regulation (CARR)

 

Department of Economic History

 

Non LSE positions held

Association of Business Historians

President

 

Business Archives Council

Chairman

 

Experience keywords:

Business history of UK, US and Europe, especially in public sector, including privatisation, railways, infrastructure projects [Channel Tunnel], brewing

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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:

Construction and Property; Energy

Countries and regions to which research relates:

Europe; Japan; UK; US

Languages:

French [Spoken: Basic, Written: Basic]

Media experience:

Has written for mainstream press; Radio; TV

Contact Points

LSE phone number:

+44 (0)20 7955 7084

LSE email:

t.r.gourvish@lse.ac.uk

Publications

2011

Gourvish, Terry (2011) The financing of a large infrastructure project: the case of the Channel Tunnel In: Amatori, Franco and Millward, Robert and Toninelli, Pier Angelo, (eds.) Reappraising state-owned enterprise: a comparison of the UK and Italy. Routledge international studies in business history. Routledge, New York, USA, 100-118. ISBN 9780415878326

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 Government official history series. Routledge, London, UK. ISBN 9780415391832

Gourvish, Terry (2006) What can business history tell us about business performance? Competition and Change, 10 (4). 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, 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 and Transport Review (23). 4-13. ISSN 1342-7512

1999

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

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, 1. Science History Publishing, Canton, USA, 117-132. ISBN 9780881352016

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, 55-64. ISBN 9788488675623

1997

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

Expert Image

This book includes new research on the interactions of politicians, businessmen and their institutions in eight countries, with particular focus on the highly-charged interwar period.

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Awards

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

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