British Business Elite

<p>First published in 1981 <i>The British Business Elite</i> is a study of the attitudes to class status and power of top businessmen in Great Britain based upon first-hand interviews with chairmen chief executives and other directors of Britain’s largest industrial banking and insurance companies: men of genuine wealth and power. Dr Fidler produces important empirical data in a field of study which has been plagued with problems of access; a field in which much of the theory has been based on assumptions.</p><p>The book includes a careful examination of the background and career of those interviewed; a discussion of the way in which businessmen see the objectives of their companies particularly relevant to the long-standing debate over the ownership and control of corporations; their views of class and status and of the power of businessmen in Britain. Finally Dr Fidler considers the implications of the research for future theory and investigation.</p>