Trevor Boyns
Biographic Data
| ID | 1108930 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Trevor Boyns |
| GIVEN NAMES | Trevor |
| FAMILY NAME | Boyns |
| SIGNATURE | BOYNS T |
| AFFILIATIONS | Cardiff University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8056-8832 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 9 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 14 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1987 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Organizational change, budgetary control and success and failure in Formula 1: Rubery Owen and British Racing Motors, 1947–1977
This study examines the life cycle of British Racing Motors Ltd. (BRM), from its early failures, through to the successes of the 1962–1965 period and its subsequent demise, in the light of managerial and organizational change at its parent company, the private family-owned business, Rubery Owen. Using the reports of British consultancy firms, supported by secondary sources, the study examines how factors such as the professionalization of Formula…
Public Venture Capital in a Regional Economy: The Welsh Development Agency, 1976–1994
Between 1976 and 1994 the UK Government’s Welsh Development Agency made 2,304 loan and equity investments totaling £117.8 million. The agency aimed to address difficulties faced by firms in obtaining finance, and such intervention was justified by the market failure and spillover hypotheses. This article assesses the agency’s investment activities against both justifications. It finds that while some investments succeeded, the portfolio’s financi…
Welsh coal and the informal empire in South America, 1850–1913
Coal was crucial to the growth of several South American states between 1850 and 1913, being used for their expanding railway networks, to generate power for their emerging industries, and by the steamships in which much of their overseas trade was conducted. Lacking indigenous sources of sufficiently high quality, Argentina and Brazil in particular came to rely heavily on Welsh coal for their energy needs. While playing a crucial role in the eco…
The Birth of Industrial Accounting in France and Britain
First Published in 1998. The area examined in this book falls loosely under the category of 'accounting integration' where research should explain how the accounting systems in both countries are designed to integrate cost and financial accounting. The authors of this book had previously been working independently on the early development of accounting for industrial enterprises within their own countries. They claim that in order to understand m…
Lyndall Urwick, management pioneer: A biography - By Edward Brech, Andrew Thomson, and John F. Wilson
Accounting and economic returns in British coal mining: The Carlton Main colliery, 1872–1909
Various estimates, both ex ante and ex post, have been produced of the accounting rate of return on investments in the late nineteenth-century coal industry, with some ex post figures also being calculated for individual firms engaged therein, such as the Consett Iron Co. Ltd. No one, however, has previously tried to calculate the economic rate of return from investing in a single coal mine over the duration of its life. In this article we examin…
Multiple Origins of Accounting? An Early Italian Example of the Development of Accounting for Managerial Purposes
Utilising archival materials relating to an Italian pottery manufacturer, Manifattura Ginori, this paper examines the development of the company's accounting system during the 19th century. By the early 1800s, Manifattura Ginori is shown to have developed a double-entry bookkeeping system and to have carried out cost calculations. Deficiencies in the archive unfortunately do not enable us to determine precisely the nature of the links between the…
Chandlerian image or mirror image? managerial and accounting control in the chemical industry: The case of Albright & Wilson, c.1892 to c.1923
Using archival evidence relating to Albright & Wilson (A&W), this article challenges the validity of Chandler's view, based mainly on the study of secondary sources, that personal capitalism retarded the development of more advanced forms of managerial organisation in Britain in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. While Chandler has criticised A&W for abrogating control of its North American subsidiaries to American managers, the a…
The development of costing in Britain, c. 1900-c. 1960
La première moitié du XX e siècle a vu la Grande-Bretagne passer de méthodes de calcul de coûts vers des méthodes de contrôle des coûts et des comportements. Cependant nous savons peu de choses de cette évolution : quand et comment s’est elle produite, à quel rythme et dans quelles entreprises. Notre objectif est de construire une base de données sur les entreprises et les industries qui ont utilisé les coûts standards, le contrôle budgétaire et …
British Business History: A Review of the Periodical Literature for 1996
(1998). British Business History: A Review of the Periodical Literature for 1996. Business History: Vol. 40, No. 2, pp. 95-114
The Development of Management Information Systems in the British Coal Industry, c.1880–1947
The issue of how business decisions are made is an important one for business historians, but its analysis is by no means simple or straight-forwards. In an attempt to provide some insights into this matter, this article examines evidence of the development of management structures and management information systems in British coal companies between about 1880 and nationalisation in 1947. The study concludes that increasing complexity of manageme…
Accounting Systems and Decision-Making in the Mid-Victorian Period: The Case of the Consett Iron Company
This paper utilises previously examined costing material for the Consett Iron Company Ltd in an attempt to throw some light on how business in the mid-Victorian period made key decisions. The nature of the costing information available to management, its limitations for decision-making purposes, and how the costing system was developed in response to the problems facing the company in the late 1860s, are examined. It is concluded that the company…
Strategic Responses to Foreign Competition: The British Coal Industry and the 1930 Coal Mines Act
Rationalisation in the Inter-War Period: The Case of the South Wales Steam Coal Industry
The Development of Management Information Systems in the British Coal Industry, c.1880–1947
The issue of how business decisions are made is an important one for business historians, but its analysis is by no means simple or straight-forwards. In an attempt to provide some insights into this matter, this article examines evidence of the development of management structures and management information systems in British coal companies between about 1880 and nationalisation in 1947. The study concludes that increasing complexity of manageme…
Accounting Systems and Decision-Making in the Mid-Victorian Period: The Case of the Consett Iron Company
This paper utilises previously examined costing material for the Consett Iron Company Ltd in an attempt to throw some light on how business in the mid-Victorian period made key decisions. The nature of the costing information available to management, its limitations for decision-making purposes, and how the costing system was developed in response to the problems facing the company in the late 1860s, are examined. It is concluded that the company…
Rationalisation in the Inter-War Period: The Case of the South Wales Steam Coal Industry
Organizational change, budgetary control and success and failure in Formula 1: Rubery Owen and British Racing Motors, 1947–1977
This study examines the life cycle of British Racing Motors Ltd. (BRM), from its early failures, through to the successes of the 1962–1965 period and its subsequent demise, in the light of managerial and organizational change at its parent company, the private family-owned business, Rubery Owen. Using the reports of British consultancy firms, supported by secondary sources, the study examines how factors such as the professionalization of Formula…
Accounting and economic returns in British coal mining: The Carlton Main colliery, 1872–1909
Various estimates, both ex ante and ex post, have been produced of the accounting rate of return on investments in the late nineteenth-century coal industry, with some ex post figures also being calculated for individual firms engaged therein, such as the Consett Iron Co. Ltd. No one, however, has previously tried to calculate the economic rate of return from investing in a single coal mine over the duration of its life. In this article we examin…
Chandlerian image or mirror image? managerial and accounting control in the chemical industry: The case of Albright & Wilson, c.1892 to c.1923
Using archival evidence relating to Albright & Wilson (A&W), this article challenges the validity of Chandler's view, based mainly on the study of secondary sources, that personal capitalism retarded the development of more advanced forms of managerial organisation in Britain in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. While Chandler has criticised A&W for abrogating control of its North American subsidiaries to American managers, the a…
Rationalisation in the Inter-War Period: The Case of the South Wales Steam Coal Industry
Strategic Responses to Foreign Competition: The British Coal Industry and the 1930 Coal Mines Act
Accounting Systems and Decision-Making in the Mid-Victorian Period: The Case of the Consett Iron Company
This paper utilises previously examined costing material for the Consett Iron Company Ltd in an attempt to throw some light on how business in the mid-Victorian period made key decisions. The nature of the costing information available to management, its limitations for decision-making purposes, and how the costing system was developed in response to the problems facing the company in the late 1860s, are examined. It is concluded that the company…
The Development of Management Information Systems in the British Coal Industry, c.1880–1947
The issue of how business decisions are made is an important one for business historians, but its analysis is by no means simple or straight-forwards. In an attempt to provide some insights into this matter, this article examines evidence of the development of management structures and management information systems in British coal companies between about 1880 and nationalisation in 1947. The study concludes that increasing complexity of manageme…
The development of costing in Britain, c. 1900-c. 1960
La première moitié du XX e siècle a vu la Grande-Bretagne passer de méthodes de calcul de coûts vers des méthodes de contrôle des coûts et des comportements. Cependant nous savons peu de choses de cette évolution : quand et comment s’est elle produite, à quel rythme et dans quelles entreprises. Notre objectif est de construire une base de données sur les entreprises et les industries qui ont utilisé les coûts standards, le contrôle budgétaire et …
British Business History: A Review of the Periodical Literature for 1996
(1998). British Business History: A Review of the Periodical Literature for 1996. Business History: Vol. 40, No. 2, pp. 95-114
Chandlerian image or mirror image? managerial and accounting control in the chemical industry: The case of Albright & Wilson, c.1892 to c.1923
Using archival evidence relating to Albright & Wilson (A&W), this article challenges the validity of Chandler's view, based mainly on the study of secondary sources, that personal capitalism retarded the development of more advanced forms of managerial organisation in Britain in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. While Chandler has criticised A&W for abrogating control of its North American subsidiaries to American managers, the a…
Multiple Origins of Accounting? An Early Italian Example of the Development of Accounting for Managerial Purposes
Utilising archival materials relating to an Italian pottery manufacturer, Manifattura Ginori, this paper examines the development of the company's accounting system during the 19th century. By the early 1800s, Manifattura Ginori is shown to have developed a double-entry bookkeeping system and to have carried out cost calculations. Deficiencies in the archive unfortunately do not enable us to determine precisely the nature of the links between the…
Lyndall Urwick, management pioneer: A biography - By Edward Brech, Andrew Thomson, and John F. Wilson
Accounting and economic returns in British coal mining: The Carlton Main colliery, 1872–1909
Various estimates, both ex ante and ex post, have been produced of the accounting rate of return on investments in the late nineteenth-century coal industry, with some ex post figures also being calculated for individual firms engaged therein, such as the Consett Iron Co. Ltd. No one, however, has previously tried to calculate the economic rate of return from investing in a single coal mine over the duration of its life. In this article we examin…
The Birth of Industrial Accounting in France and Britain
First Published in 1998. The area examined in this book falls loosely under the category of 'accounting integration' where research should explain how the accounting systems in both countries are designed to integrate cost and financial accounting. The authors of this book had previously been working independently on the early development of accounting for industrial enterprises within their own countries. They claim that in order to understand m…
Welsh coal and the informal empire in South America, 1850–1913
Coal was crucial to the growth of several South American states between 1850 and 1913, being used for their expanding railway networks, to generate power for their emerging industries, and by the steamships in which much of their overseas trade was conducted. Lacking indigenous sources of sufficiently high quality, Argentina and Brazil in particular came to rely heavily on Welsh coal for their energy needs. While playing a crucial role in the eco…
Public Venture Capital in a Regional Economy: The Welsh Development Agency, 1976–1994
Between 1976 and 1994 the UK Government’s Welsh Development Agency made 2,304 loan and equity investments totaling £117.8 million. The agency aimed to address difficulties faced by firms in obtaining finance, and such intervention was justified by the market failure and spillover hypotheses. This article assesses the agency’s investment activities against both justifications. It finds that while some investments succeeded, the portfolio’s financi…
Organizational change, budgetary control and success and failure in Formula 1: Rubery Owen and British Racing Motors, 1947–1977
This study examines the life cycle of British Racing Motors Ltd. (BRM), from its early failures, through to the successes of the 1962–1965 period and its subsequent demise, in the light of managerial and organizational change at its parent company, the private family-owned business, Rubery Owen. Using the reports of British consultancy firms, supported by secondary sources, the study examines how factors such as the professionalization of Formula…
Economics (9 works) · Historical Economic and Social Studies (8 works) · Political science (8 works) · Business (7 works) · History (7 works) · Coal (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Accounting (4 works) · Accounting (4 works) · Accounting and Organizational Management (4 works)