TY  - BOOK
AU  - Wilson,J.F.
AU  - Webster,Anthony
AU  - Vorberg-Rugh,Rachael
TI  - Building co-operation: a business history of the co-operative group, 1863-2013 
SN  - 9780199655113 (hardback)
AV  - HD3424.G7 W55 2013
U1  - 381/.2092 23
PY  - 2013///
CY  - Oxford
PB  - Oxford University Press
KW  - Co-operative Group (CWS) Limited
KW  - Manchester
KW  - gnd
KW  - stw
KW  - Co-operative Wholesale Society
KW  - Cooperation
KW  - Great Britain
KW  - History
KW  - Cooperative societies
KW  - fast
KW  - Genossenschaftsbewegung
KW  - Kooperation
KW  - historia
KW  - sao
KW  - Geschäftsmodell
KW  - Unternehmensgeschichte
KW  - Grossbritannien
KW  - Storbritannien
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 402-412) and index; Machine generated contents note: 1. Introduction -- 1.1. Why this book, and why now? -- 1.2. Building Co-operation---Some caveats -- 1.3. Towards a co-operative business history -- 1.4. The co-operative business model and The Co-operative Group -- 1.5.Organization -- pt. I RISE AND REIGN -- 2. The Roots and Rise of British Co-operation, c.1780--1863 -- 2.1. Co-operative initiatives before the 1840s -- 2.2. The Rochdale Pioneers and the Rochdale model -- 2.3. The spread of co-operation in England and experiments in wholesaling, 1844--63 -- 2.4. More concrete moves towards a wholesale society -- 3. The Rise of the CWS, 1863 to 1890: The Birth and Leadership of a Corporate Giant? -- 3.1. The context of co-operative development: British economic and social development, 1860--90, and the retail revolution' -- 3.2. The co-operative movement and the dominance of localism' -- 3.3. Building the CWS: The competitive hothouse' and the rise of a commercial giant; Contents note continued: 3.4. The CWS by 1890: A successful leader of the co-operative movement? -- 4. The Age of Expansion, 1890--1914 -- 4.1. The co-operative movement and retailing, 1890--1914 -- 4.2. Expanding production at home -- 4.3. CWS growth overseas -- 4.4. Serving co-operative societies -- 4.5. The structural challenges of growth -- 4.6. Managing a growing enterprise -- 4.7. Conclusions -- 5. War and Peace, 1914--38 -- 5.1. Co-operatives and the First World War -- 5.2. Peacetime conflicts, left and right -- 5.3. The General Co-operative Survey Committee -- 5.4. Troubled times -- 5.5. The CWS and inter-war politics -- 5.6. Doing business in troubled times -- 5.7. Reorganizing the CWS, 1929 and 1937 -- 5.8. Conclusions -- pt. II RETREAT AND RENAISSANCE -- 6. Co-operation in Retreat: War and Decline, 1939--73 -- 6.1. Historians and co-operative retreat -- 6.2. War---Again -- 6.3. Post-war challenges and inertia, 1945--55 -- 6.4. The Co-operative Independent Commission, 1955--8; Contents note continued: 6.5. The 1960s and early 1970s: Deepening difficulties and the CWS response -- 6.6. Conclusions -- 7. Adapting the Business Model, 1973--90 -- 7.1. Macro-economic trends and consumer behaviour -- 7.2. Merging with SCWS -- 7.3. Expanding the Bank -- 7.4. Rationalization and investment -- 7.5. Conclusions -- 8. The Watershed Decade -- 8.1. Early 1990s rationalization and corporate governance reform -- 8.2. The family', The Co-operative Bank, and ethical trading -- 8.3. Regan's takeover bid -- 8.4. Impact -- 9. Falling towards the Centre': A Twenty-First-Century Renaissance' -- 9.1. Melmoth, the CRS, and the family' concept -- 9.2. Beaumont, mergers, and market share -- 9.3. Marks and the renaissance' -- 9.4. Conclusions -- 10. Conclusions -- 10.1. Evolution of the business model
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