London Transport and the Politicians
Author : Paul E. Garbutt
Publisher :
Page : 138 pages
File Size : 19,12 MB
Release : 1985
Category : Local transit
ISBN :
Author : Paul E. Garbutt
Publisher :
Page : 138 pages
File Size : 19,12 MB
Release : 1985
Category : Local transit
ISBN :
Author : James Fowler
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 177 pages
File Size : 20,34 MB
Release :
Category :
ISBN : 3031392965
Author : Great Britain. Government Office for London
Publisher :
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 28,41 MB
Release : 1996
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN :
Author : James Fowler
Publisher : Emerald Group Publishing
Page : 207 pages
File Size : 44,58 MB
Release : 2019-09-16
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1789739535
This book is a timely assessment of a unique hybrid public body with a system of governance that once made London transport domestically popular and internationally admired: the London Passenger Transport Board.
Author : James Fowler
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 18,35 MB
Release : 2023
Category :
ISBN : 9783031392979
This book offers a novel explanation of the transformation of London's transport from a free market to a public corporation rooted in social and political legitimacy rather than economic rationality. To become a single corporation London Transport first had to gain a 'social licence' to operate, and this book explains how and why. It considers how a revolution in data gathering during this period helped to justify the transition to a central, unified provider, while also investigating how reputational damage to key figures in the transport industry jeopardized the political and social legitimacy needed to manage public corporation on a large scale. The book combines archival research with academic insights from theories of legitimacy, statistical accounting and scientific management to explore how the employment of statistical information combined with skilful media repositioning allowed a new generation of figureheads in the transport business to emerge as honest, professional, and patriotic, making them suitable business leaders of a transport monopoly in London after 1933. This account of events combines the concepts of trust in numbers and trust in character to produce a wide-ranging, qualitative historical account of the creation a major public monopoly. It will be of interest to students and scholars from a wide range of disciplines, including business and management history, transport policy, management and organization studies, public administration and public sector studies. James Fowler lectures on strategy and management at the University of Essex. His PhD and subsequent research interests are in business and management history where he has journal publications in Business History, Management History, Transport History and Essays in Economic and Business History. He has published two books on the history of London Transport and was the winner of James Soltow Prize for Economic and Business History in 2022.
Author : Stephen Glaister
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 16,45 MB
Release : 2017-09-16
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0230214258
This comprehensively revised and updated new edition of the leading text in the field provides full coverage of the historical, political and European context of British transport policy, of the new financial and regulatory regimes of the Twenty-first century and of the impact of such major new initiatives as London's congestion charge.
Author : Enid Wistrich
Publisher : London : Longman
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 26,53 MB
Release : 1983
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN :
Author : Stephen Glaister
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 39,48 MB
Release : 2006-10-03
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780333948828
This comprehensively revised and updated new edition of the leading text in the field provides full coverage of the historical, policy, and European context of British transport policy, of the new financial and regulatory regimes of the twenty-first century, and of the impact of such major new initiatives as London's congestion charge.
Author : Christian Wolmar
Publisher : White Lion Publishing
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 23,27 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN :
Reforming the London Underground has become a massive political issue. Christian Wolmar examines government policy past and present, and presents a bleak vision of the future effects of the Treasury's ideas for a public/private partnership.
Author : Dr Geoffrey Dudley
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 483 pages
File Size : 10,70 MB
Release : 2004-08-02
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1134701578
The tension between policy stability and change is a key political phenomenon, but its dynamics have been little understood. Why Does Policy Change? examines and explains the dynamics of major policy change by looking at case studies from British Transport policy since 1945. The significant contrasts between road and rail policies in this period lend themselves perfectly to the authors' theories of what brings about policy turnabout.