Tennent, Kevin Daniel orcid.org/0000-0003-1952-5969, Gillett, Alex orcid.org/0000-0001-7965-2404, Fowler, James et al. (1 more author) Blending Public and Private:British Municipal Trading c. 1889-1975. In: UNSPECIFIED. (Unpublished)
Abstract
Municipal trading was the dominant delivery form for transport and utility services in late nineteenth and early twentieth-century Britain and saw local authorities operate these services on a profit-making basis. This paper uses historical evidence and the ideas of contemporary theorists of municipal trading to demonstrate how these bodies formatively brought hybridity into the public sector, using blended public, corporate and market institutional orders. It demonstrates that in order to gain institutional legitimacy for municipal trading local authorities had to fall back on antecedents in the transport and infrastructure industries, notably in the turnpike trusts, canal and railway industries.
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Item Type: | Conference or Workshop Item |
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | This paper was submitted and peer reviewed for the 2020 Academy of Management Conference but not ultimately presented there due to the Covid-19 crisis. It is submitted here as a working paper. |
Keywords: | Public and not-for-profit; Past or current movements or trends; International comparative thought, management or practice |
Institution: | The University of York |
Academic Units: | The University of York > Faculty of Social Sciences (York) > The York Management School The University of York > Faculty of Arts and Humanities (York) > History (York) |
Depositing User: | Pure (York) |
Date Deposited: | 02 Jul 2021 10:50 |
Last Modified: | 29 Jan 2025 00:11 |
Status: | Unpublished |
Refereed: | Yes |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:175812 |
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