This paper sets out to examine some of the performance characteristics of holding companies in the UK in the years 1964–1973. It is difficult to define precisely the unique characteristics of a holding company, but our concern in this article is with controlling British holding companies who...

Introduction Industrial holding companies continue to play an important role in the development of many Western style economies. These institutions take a wide variety of forms to accomplish their principal objective, namely the control and management of multi‐company systems which normally...