International competition and strategic response in the textile industries since 1870

Business History

Volumn 32, Issue 4, 1990, Pages 1-8

  Rose, Mary B ^a  

^a LANCASTER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 84928831336     PISSN: 00076791     EISSN: 17437938     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00076799000000142     Document Type: Article

References (29)

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7. Ibid., p.5.
8. Ibid., p.6.
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12. Financial Times, 2 June 1988.
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15. Ibid., pp.315, 319.
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28. J.H. Bamberg, ‘The Rationalisation of the British Cotton Industry in the Interwar Years’, Textile History, Vol.19 (1988), pp.83-102.
29. For the role of the chain stores' manufacturers, see also S.D. Chapman, ‘Mergers and Takeovers in the Postwar Textile Industry’, Business History, Vol.30 (1988), pp.219-239.