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Smith And Nephew In The Health Care Industry

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  • James Foreman-Peck

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The health care industry is one of the few sectors in which Britain can claim a competitive advantage. Widely recognized as one of the most successful British manufacturing companies of the early 1990s, Smith & Nephew is the ideal example from which to isolate the sources of competitiveness. Smith & Nephew, a Hull based firm, was founded in 1856 and later linked up with Lancashire’s cotton mills and the small workshops of Birmingham and London. During the 1980s Smith & Nephew grew from essentially a British company, with subsidiaries in Commonwealth countries and part ownership of some continental European firms, into a global health care business firmly established in Europe, North America and other key markets around the world. By the 1990s Smith & Nephew had become one of the select band of world class British manufacturing companies.

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  • James Foreman-Peck, 1995. "Smith And Nephew In The Health Care Industry," Books, Edward Elgar Publishing, number 172.
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    1. Igor Filatotchev & Steve Toms, 2006. "Corporate Governance and Financial Constraints on Strategic Turnarounds," Journal of Management Studies, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 43(3), pages 407-433, May.
    2. Toms, Steven, 2005. "Financial control, managerial control and accountability: evidence from the British Cotton Industry, 1700-2000," Accounting, Organizations and Society, Elsevier, vol. 30(7-8), pages 627-653.
    3. James Foreman-Peck & Tom Nicholls, 2013. "SME takeovers as a contributor to regional productivity gaps," Small Business Economics, Springer, vol. 41(2), pages 359-378, August.
    4. Foreman-Peck, James & Nicholls, Tom, 2008. "Peripherality and the Impact of SME Takeovers," Cardiff Economics Working Papers E2008/9, Cardiff University, Cardiff Business School, Economics Section, revised Jul 2012.

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    Keywords

    Economics and Finance; Social Policy and Sociology;

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    • I1 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Health

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