The Human Factor in Banking History
Athens. 2008
Editors
Edwin Green
Monika Pohle Fraser
Iain L. Fraser
The book examines the role of entrepreneurship and business administration in the development of banks, thesocial parameters that define issues in question, the shaping of the basic variables that effect the personnel’s contribution to the performance of enterprises and, finally, the importance of various organisational models and their alternation in the operation of banking institutions.
Table of contents
- From Riches to Rags to Riches in One Generation: Management and Mismanagement in the Early Years of the Banco Central of Madrid, 1920 – 1945 (Gabriel Tortella Casares)
- Project Finance and the Archives of Entrepreneurship. The Channel Tunnel (Terry Gourvish)
- ‘Ephors’ from Growth to Governance. How Modern Theories are Reshaping Historians’ Views of the Economic Functions of Bankers (Stefano Battilossi)
- The Greek Banking System in the 20th Century (Kostas Kostis)
- Structure Charts. The Missing Link (Francesca Pino)
- Disjunctive Sets? Business and Banking History (Mira Wilkins)
- The Social Origins of Bank Managers (Ginette Kurgan-van Hentenryk)
- The Twentieth Century Transformation of Banking and its Effect on Management Training for Bankers (Leslie Hannah)
- The Employees of the Bank of Portugal, 1846-1914. A Case of an Internal Labour Market (Jaime Reis)
- Archives’ Policies towards Personnel Records (Roger Nougaret)
- Married to the Bank. Wives and Families in the History of HSBC (Edwin Green)
- Is the Sun Setting on Banking History as we have Known and Practised it? (Gerald D. Feldman)