Annual reports are situated artefacts which relate a longitudinal grand narrative or corporate (auto)biography. This paper explores the narrative reporting of two former asbestos manufacturers, Turner & Newall in the UK and James Hardie in Australia. Asbestos features prominently in the...

Purpose: This paper aims to contribute to an understanding of the process of the construction of the professional businessman in Britain in the early twentieth century. Design/methodology/approach: Two books authored by the prominent British industrialist Sir Samuel Turner III are analysed as a...