Kenneth A. Tucker, Fellow, Research School of Social Sciences, Institute of Advanced Studies, Australian National University

• Part 1 Aims and Methods in Business History; Chapter 1 What is Business History?, Arthur H. Cole; Chapter 2, Francis E. Hyde; Chapter 3 Business History and the Theory of the Growth of the Firm, Louis Galambos; Chapter 4 Business History: Some Proposals for Aims and Methodology, K. A. Tucker; Part 2 Entrepreneurs, the Firm and Industrial Structure; Chapter 5, Peter L. Payne; Chapter 6, M. Blaug; Chapter 7, Sidney Pollard; Chapter 8, H. W. Richardson, J. M. Bass; Chapter 9 James Nasmyth and the Early Growth of Mechanical Engineering, A. E. Musson; Chapter 10 †We wish to thank the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation for financial support which made this study possible., Harold C. Livesay, Patrick G. Porter; Chapter 11, D. F. Dixon; Chapter 12 Government Contracting, Competition and Growth in the Heavy Woollen Industry, Frederick J. Glover; Chapter 13 *From Business History Review, Vol. XLI, no. 4 (Winter, 1967), pp. 358–77. Reprinted by permission of the editor of Business History Review and the authors., Maury Klein, Kozo Yamamura; Chapter 14 The Merchant as Catalyst: Financing Economic Growth, Glenn Porter, Harold C. Livesay; Chapter 15 What Price Style? The Fabric-Advisory Function of the Drygoods Commission Merchant, 1850–1880, Hansjörg Siegenthaler; Part 3 Techniques of Business Management and Organisation; Chapter 16 †I have benefitted greatly from the comments on an earlier draft of this paper made by Professor W. T. Baxter, Mr Kurt Klappholz and Professor William Letwin.This paper was first published in Studi in Onore di Amintore Fanfani, Dott. A. Giuffre, Milan, 1962, vol. vi, pp. 833–57. It is reprinted here by kind permission of Professor F. Melis of the Comitato Promotore delle Onoranze.In the present version I have made a few small changes and added some bibliographical references., Basil S. Yamey; Chapter 17 †The Research upon which this paper is based was financed by the Canada Council (research grant S69–1548) — the help thus received is gratefully acknowledged. I wish to thank also Mrs Eleanor Bishop and Mr Robert Lovett for assistance with the textile company records at Harvard’s Baker Library; Professors Kevin H. Burley, Alfred D. Chandler, Jr., and Basil Yamey for their advice in the preparation of this article; and Dr Elaine Bowe Johnson for editorial advice., H. Thomas Johnson; Chapter 18, Herbert Heaton; Chapter 19 A Manchester Merchant and his Schedules of Supply and Demand, B. W. Clapp; Chapter 20, Abner Cohen; Part 4 Special Appendices; Chapter 21 Appendix One; Chapter 22 Appendix Two; Chapter 23 Appendix Three;