Strategic inertia, financial fragility and organisational failure: The case of the Birkbeck Bank, 1870-1911

Business History

Volumn 56, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 746-764

  Hollow, Matthew ^a  

^a DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

bank runs; banking; business failure; finance; fragility; inertia; investment strategy

Indexed keywords

BANKING; BUSINESS; ECONOMIC HISTORY; FINANCIAL SYSTEM; INVESTMENT; STRATEGIC APPROACH; TWENTIETH CENTURY;

EID: 84902788012     PISSN: 00076791     EISSN: 17437938     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00076791.2013.839660     Document Type: Article

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