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    1. Boardroom Scandal: The Criminalization of Company Fraud in Nineteenth-Century Britain by James... 2015

      Higgins, David M. -- (David Michael)

      Enterprise & Society, Vol. 16, Issue 3, pp. 719 - 721.

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    2. A Nation of Investors or a Procession of Fools? Reevaluating the Behavior of Britain’s... 2019

      HOLLOW, MATTHEW

      Enterprise & Society, Vol. 20, Issue 1, pp. 132 - 158.

      In recent years, there has been a notable increase in the amount of scholarship on the history of shareholding in Britain. One area that still remains relatively unexplored, however, is the problem... Read more

      In recent years, there has been a notable increase in the amount of scholarship on the history of shareholding in Britain. One area that still remains relatively unexplored, however, is the problematic issue of how British investors actually went about the process of choosing their respective investments. The purpose of this article is to make a start at redressing this gap by using the (perceived) sharepushing crime wave that swept across Britain during the interwar period as a prism through which to evaluate the behavior of Britain’s shareholding population at this time. Ultimately, what it suggests is that, while the interwar British investors may well have had far more potential sources of advice and information open to them than their nineteenth-century forebears, this did not necessarily mean that they were any better informed about the workings of the British securities market. Read less

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    3. Humanitarian accountability, bureaucracy, and self-regulation: the view from the archive 2015

      Roddy, Sarah; Strange, Julie-Marie; Taithe, Bertrand

      Disasters, Vol. 39, Issue s2.

      This paper contains a systematic exploration of local and national archives and sources relevant to charities and humanitarian fund appeals of the late Victorian and Edwardian eras (1870–1912) in G... Read more

      This paper contains a systematic exploration of local and national archives and sources relevant to charities and humanitarian fund appeals of the late Victorian and Edwardian eras (1870–1912) in Great Britain. It shows that the charitable world and humanitarian work share the same matrix and originate from the same roots, with considerable overlap between fundraising for domestic charity and overseas relief. These campaigns engaged in crucial self‐regulatory processes very early on that involved concepts such as formal accountability and the close monitoring of delivery. Far from lagging behind in terms of formal practices of auditing and accounts, charities and humanitarian funds often were in the pioneering group as compared with mainstream businesses of the period. The charitable sector, notably through the Charity Organisation Society in cooperation with the press, developed and delivered accountability and monitoring, while the state and the Charity Commission played a negligible role in this process. Read less

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