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Hustlers, Traitors, Patriots and Politicians

Legitimising London’s Transport Monopoly 1900-1933

Produktform: Buch / Einband - fest (Hardcover)

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. weiterlesen

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Sprache(n): Englisch

ISBN: 978-3-031-39295-5 / 978-3031392955 / 9783031392955

Verlag: Springer International Publishing

Erscheinungsdatum: 05.08.2023

Seiten: 167

Auflage: 1

Autor(en): James Fowler

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