Michael Aldous

https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9320-2776

Phone+44 (0)28 9097 4549
EmailM.Aldous@qub.ac.uk

Room 02.007 - Riddel Hall Block 3
United Kingdom

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Particulars

Office location: 02.007, Riddel Hall Block 3

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Lecturer in Management at Queen's Management School, and a Research Associate at Queen's University Centre for Economic History.

Interests

Research Statement

Michael Aldous is a business historian with an interest in the ownership and organisation of firms. He uses microeconomic theories of the firm to analyse the use of different business forms. He is particularly interested in the historical role played by partnership and cooperative firms in trade and service industries, and implications this has for understanding both historical and contemporary firm performance.

Research Interests

Business History, Economic History, International Business, Globalization in the 19^th century, Trading and service firms, Theory of the firm

Achievements

Michael holds a BA in History and American Studies from the University of Nottingham, an MBA from IE Business School, Madrid, and an MSc and PhD in Economic History from the London School of Economics and Political Science.

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Research Output 2015 2019

8 Article
2 Chapter

An Incomplete Revolution: Corporate Governance Challenges of the London Assurance Company and the Limitations of the Joint-Stock Form, 1720–1725

Aldous, M. & Condorelli, S., 13 Aug 2019, In : Enterprise and Society.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article

Open Access

File

Assurance

Corporate governance

Corporate Governance

Incomplete

Revolution

From traders to planters: The evolving role and importance of trading companies in the 19th century Anglo-Indian Indigo trade

Aldous, M., 30 Jun 2019, In : Business History.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article

Indigo

Traders

Globalization

Global trade

Transaction costs

Partners, servants or entrepreneurs? Banians in the 19th century Bengal economy.

Aldous, M., 05 Mar 2019, (Accepted) In : Business History Review.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article

Open Access

File

Servants

Economy

Bengal

Entrepreneurs

Ownership

The Liverpool Cotton Brokers Association and the Crowning of King Cotton, 1811-1900: Examining the Role of a Private Order Institution in Global Trade

Aldous, M. & Coyle, C., 21 Sep 2019, (Accepted) In : Business History Review.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article

Open Access

File

Global trade

Liverpool

Broker

Cotton

Global Trade

Trading Companies

Aldous, M., 22 Jul 2019, Routledge Handbook on the Makers of Global Business. da Silva Lopes, T., Lubinski, C. & Tworek, H. (eds.). Routledge, 29 p.

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter

International trade

Economics

Economic development

Globalization

Organizational form