スコットランド「ブリティッシュ亜麻会社」の経営基盤 : 経営構造と事業内容との関連を中心に
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The British Linen Company was the biggcest enterprise in the Scottish linen industry in the 18th century. Established in 1746 for the promotion of Scottish linen manufacturing, in the earlier decades of its existence it made great achievements in the export of Scottish linen goods to England and to plantations in America. Despite this, however, from the latter part of the 1760s it gradually switched from the linen industry to banking. The purpose of this article is to consider the causes of this transition, with special reference to the relationship between the actual business activities of the firm and its management structure in the earlier period (from 1746 to the l760s). As a joint-stock company, the British Linen Company had abundant financial resources to carry on its linen business. Besides the capital stock paid in, it also had the right to raise funds through the issue of promissory notes or bonds. The promissory notes, which later became the bank notes of the British Linen Company, played an important role in the development of the banking business. It was due to the issue of promissory notes and their functioning as bank notes that the business of lending and discounting to linen manufacturers or merchants owned its gradual development. And then in the early l77Os banking replaced linen as the main field of the company's activities. On the other hand, it was due to its abundant financial resources, that the company was able to engage in the whole process of linen manufacture, from the purchasing of hemp to the production and sale of linen goods. The work of managing of this great range of business activity depended on two managers - E. McCulloch and W. Tod. They worked together in a complementary way : Tod was sent to London to handle the marketing of linen goods, while McCulloch remained at the headquarters in Edinburgh to control production there and sales at Glasgow. However, the division of regional and business responsibilities between them led to serious, and ultimately irreconcilable, differencccs of opinion over manufacturing and marketing strategies, Tod therefore resigned in 1759, while McCulloch gave up his new post as sole manager in 1763. The conflict between the two managers was also one of the reasons behind the company's gradual withdrawal from the linen business in the l760s.
- 社会経済史学会の論文
- 1996-07-25
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