Trademarks and British dominance in consumer goods, 1876-1914

• Type: Article in International Scientific Journal
• Date: 2014

Authors

Lopes, TD (Author) Other; Paulo Guimaraes (Author) FEP

Journal

Title: Economic History Review

Vol. 67

Pages: 793-817

ISSN: 0013-0117

Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell

Indexing

ISI Web of Knowledge - 16 Citations

Other information

Authenticus ID: P-009-MNN

DOI: 10.1111/1468-0289.12039

Abstract (EN): Late Victorian Britain was very important in the development of British dominance in light consumer goods industries, such as fermented liquors and spirits; detergents and perfumery; bicycles and other carriages; paper, stationery, and bookbinding; and games of all kinds and sports goods. Firms developed technology-based innovations and marketing-based innovations, creating abnormal peaks of trademark registrations in certain industries. This article investigates those peaks and shows that factors usually pointed out as explaining British economic decline in heavy industries did not impact on the development of light consumer goods industries, and on the contrary encouraged their fast growth during this period. Trademark registrations are shown to provide new insights into the debate on British relative decline, when combined with other industry and firm-level data.

Language: English

Type (Professor's evaluation): Scientific

No. of pages: 25