Building Co-operation: A Business History of The Co-operative Group, 1863-2013 - Hardcover

Wilson, John F.; Webster, Anthony; Vorberg-Rugh, Rachael

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0199655111 ISBN 13: 9780199655113

Publisher: OUP Oxford, 2013

Synopsis

Based on an extensive research from original archives, this book is a study of Britain's major co-operative venture, the Co-operative Wholesale Society (later The Co-operative Group).

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About the Author

John Wilson is Director of Newcastle University Business School, where he is also professor of strategy. He has published extensively in the field of international business history, knowledge transfer, and the history of management education, including a dozen monographs and over fifty articles and chapters. As executive editor of Business History and a former President of the Association of Business Historians, he has played a major role in developing the discipline.


Anthony Webster is a graduate of the University of Birmingham UK, where he won the Ashley Prize for best PhD thesis in the Faculty of Commerce and Social Science in 1985. In his career he has been a tax inspector and has lectured at three universities in the North West of England. He is currently Head of History at Liverpool John Moores University. He has published extensively on business in the British empire and co-operatives, producing four major books and numerous articles in leading international journals (including Enterprise and Society, the article for which won the Newcomen Prize for best article in the journal in 2005).

Rachael Vorberg-Rugh is a doctoral candidate in Modern History at the University of Oxford, where she is completing a thesis on the British co-operative movement between 1880 and 1920. She has published articles and book chapters on co-operative history and business. In addition to her academic work, she has engaged in numerous public history projects in the US and UK. She is currently a researcher with The Co-operative College, and previously served as project officer for the National Co-operative Archive and Rochdale Pioneers Museum.

Edition details

• Publisher: OUP Oxford
• Publication date: 2013
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0199655111
• ISBN 13: 9780199655113
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 458