Financial distress, corporate borrowing, and industrial decline: The Lancashire cotton spinning industry, 1918-38

Accounting, Business and Financial History

Volumn 13, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 207-232

  Higgins, David ^a   Toms, Steve ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^b NOTTINGHAM UNIVERSITY BUSINESS SCHOOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cotton; Financial structure; Textiles; Turnaround strategies

Indexed keywords

EID: 0344197707     PISSN: 09585206     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/0958520032000084996     Document Type: Review

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