| 书目名称 | Hustlers, Traitors, Patriots and Politicians | | 副标题 | Legitimising London’ | | 编辑 | James Fowler | | 视频video | | | 概述 | Provides a novel interdisciplinary examination of the creation of a major public monopoly.Offers a comprehensive investigation of the role of legitimacy and statistical information in building public | | 丛书名称 | Palgrave Studies in Economic History | | 图书封面 |  | | 描述 | .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 wid | | 出版日期 | Book 2023 | | 关键词 | management; transport; London Transport; monopoly; managerial elites; mass data; legitimacy; statistical ac | | 版次 | 1 | | doi | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-39296-2 | | isbn_softcover | 978-3-031-39298-6 | | isbn_ebook | 978-3-031-39296-2Series ISSN 2662-6497 Series E-ISSN 2662-6500 | | issn_series | 2662-6497 | | copyright | The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerl |
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