Gordon Boyce
Biographic Data
| ID | 3840951 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Gordon Boyce |
| GIVEN NAMES | Gordon |
| FAMILY NAME | Boyce |
| SIGNATURE | BOYCE G |
| AFFILIATIONS | Victoria University of Wellington |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8351-3420 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 25 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 28 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 23 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1986 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Resources and Infrastructures in the Maritime Economy, 1500-2000
Maritime Networks, History of
The Growth and Dissolution of a Large-Scale Business Enterprise: The Furness Interest 1892–1919
Edward Bates and Sons, 1897-1915: Tramping Operations in Recession and Recovery
This essay presents new firm-level evidence to supplement our limited knowledge of tramp shipping operations between 1897 and 1915. The records of Edward Bates and Sons, which operated a mixed fleet of sail and steam vessels, reveal details of trading patterns, decision-making and the skills needed to master what Robin Craig called “the difficult art of tramp ship management.” The Bates papers provide particularly valuable insights because they s…
Language and Culture in a Liverpool Merchant Family Firm, 1870–1950
Ethnographic methods are applied to this investigation of the links between language and business culture found in letters exchanged in the 1880s, 1900s, 1930s, and 1940s among members of a long-lived family-owned business. The letters are contained in three sets of correspondence between three different generations of the Bates family, who were merchants, shipowners, and private bankers based in Liverpool. The aim is to develop a different persp…
The Internationalisation Strategies of Small‐country Firms. The Australian Experience of Globalisation
Books
Changing Ways of Death in Twentieth Century Australia. By Pat Jalland. Sydney: UNSW Press, 2006. Pp. 409. $39.95 paper. A Different Sort of War: Australians in Korea, 1950–53. By Richard Trembath. Melbourne: Australian Scholarly Publishing, 2005. Pp. 266. $34.95 paper. New Zealand and the Vietnam War: Politics and Diplomacy. By Roberto Rabel. Auckland: Auckland University Press, 2005. Pp. xi + 443. NZ$49.99 paper. The Encyclopedia of Melbourne. E…
Introduction: Mining History in Context
This article introduces the theme and the articles in this special issue of the Australian Economic History Review on mining history. It puts the subject of the articles in the context of current changes in the global mining industry and notes the themes that may be explored in further research
Network Knowledge and Network Routines: Negotiating Activities between Shipowners and Shipbuilders
This article extends transaction cost economics by looking in detail at the sharp edge of exchange processes - negotiating activities. It also contributes to the literature exploring the properties of hierarchical organisations and networks. The article suggests that networks possess the equivalent to organisational knowledge. This 'network knowledge' consists of ethical prescriptions which guide behaviour as well as routines that are understood …
Norwegian Whaling in Newfoundland: The Aquaforte Station and the Ellefsen Family, 1902-1908
Resources and Infrastructures in the Maritime Economy, 1500-2000
This book provides a study of both the physical and intangible frameworks that enabled maritime resources to flow and infrastructures to operate. The aim is to demonstrate the complexity and diversity of the legal, social, cultural, and institutional forces at work within maritime economics. Port development, planning, and policy-making constitute the physical frameworks, while agency structures and consular networks make up the non-physical fact…
Assessing Information Quality Theories: The USS Joint Venture with William Holyman & Sons and Huddart Parker Ltd, 1904-35
Scholars concerned with an information-based view of an economy make an implicit assumption that firm efficiencies are based on information of good quality. In this firm-specific study an explanation of the importance of information quality is given by utilising and extending Casson's diagrammatic methodology for representing information flows. This has been done by measuring aspects of the information flows through Wm. Holyman & Sons Ltd and Hol…
Multilateral Contracting in Australian Mining: The Development of Hamersley Iron, 1961–1966
Management theory andtransaction cost economics provide few insights into the dynamics of multilateral negotiations. A host of factors suggest that complex transactions—especially those that involve government agencies—face a high probability of failure. Yet history records many examples of successful multiple-party transactions. Using the records of a major Australian iron ore mining venture, Hamersley Iron, this article reveals a number of the …
Transferring Capabilities across Sectoral Frontiers: Shipowners Entering the Airline Business, 1920–1970
Informational Costs and Institutional Typologies: A Review Article
Books reviewed in this article: Mark Casson, Information and Organisation. A New Perspective on the Theory of the Firm Takao Shiba and Masahiro Shimotani (eds), Beyond the Firm. Business Groups in International Historical Perspective
A Professional Association as Network and Communicating Node: The Pharmaceutical Society of Australasia, 1857–1918
This paper explicitly examines the communicating processes that conditioned the dynamic interaction between recognized norms and legislative activity affecting the professional development of pharmacists. The Pharmaceutical Society of Australasia successfully developed communication channels, exploited recognized models, and created institutional constructs. In contrast to much of the literature which attributes professionalization to the pursuit…
The Steel Manufacturers' Nickel Syndicate Ltd., 1904–39: Assessing the Conduct and Performance of a Cooperative Purchasing Organization
This paper seeks to extend our knowledge of intermediate transacting frameworks by examining the history of the Steel Manufacturers' Nickel Syndicate. The study shows how constituents arranged and employed inter‐organizational communication lines to create a durable cooperative purchasing syndicate that had a special relationship with a New Caledonian supplier. By measuring the financial advantages that members secured by participation relative t…
The Western Mining Corporation–Hanna/Homestake Joint Venture: Game Theory and Inter–Organizational Cooperation
In 1962, Western Mining Corporation along with M. A. Hanna and the Homestake Mining Company formed a joint venture to explore and develop iron ore deposits in Western Australia. The partners successfully developed one ore field, but failed to build an enduring business relationship. The paper uses game theory to examine joint venture dynamics. It finds that the partners could not transform a Prisoners’ Dilemma scenario into a coordination game be…
The Western Mining Corporation‐Hanna/Homestake Joint Venture: Game Theory and Inter‐Organizational Cooperation
In 1962, Western Mining Corporation along with M. A. Hanna and the Homestake Mining Company formed a joint venture to explore and develop iron ore deposits in Western Australia. The partners successfully developed one ore field, but failed to build an enduring business relationship. The paper uses game theory to examine joint venture dynamics. It finds that the partners could not transform a Prisoners' Dilemma scenario into a coordination game be…
Notes on Gordon H. Boyce, Information, Mediation and Institutional Development: The Rise of Large-Scale Enterprise in British Shipping, 1870–1919
Union Steam Ship Company of New Zealand and the Adoption of Oil Propulsion: Learning-by-Using Effects
La compagnie de l'union des navires a vapeur adopta le systeme de propulsion a essence grâce a l'innovation technologique et a la diffusion de l'information
The Japanese Iron and Steel Industry, 1850-1990: Continuity and Discontinuity
Thers, Syndicates, and Stock Promotions: Information Flows and Fund-raising Techniques of British Shipowners Before 1914
Analysis of British capital market operations before 1914 has focused on institutional and investor behavior without fully considering entrepreneurial conduct. Consequently, those who argue that industrial performance was impaired because capital flows were obstructed by information blockages have overlooked the role company owners could play in shaping communication lines. The fund-raising techniques used by shipowners reveal that private capita…
The Development of the Cargo Fleet Iron Company, 1900–1914: Entrepreneurship, Costs, and Structural Rigidity in the Northeast Coast Steel Industry
Focusing on the Caigo Fleet Iron Company and its local competitors in Britain's Northeast, this article examines one company's response to changes in the steelmaking environment. By providing data at the firm level, the article is able to highlight specific contributing factors that are often invisible when scholars discuss Britain's industrial decline in the aggregate
The Growth and Dissolution of a Large-Scale Business Enterprise: The Furness Interest, 1892–1919
This book is an in-depth case study of the Furness Withy and Co Shipping Group, which operated both tramp and liner services and was one of the five major British shipping groups of the early twentieth century. It demonstrates how British shipowners of this period generated success by exploring Christopher Furness' career in relation to the social, political, and cultural currents during a time of tremendous shipping growth in Britain and the est…
Language and Culture in a Liverpool Merchant Family Firm, 1870–1950
Ethnographic methods are applied to this investigation of the links between language and business culture found in letters exchanged in the 1880s, 1900s, 1930s, and 1940s among members of a long-lived family-owned business. The letters are contained in three sets of correspondence between three different generations of the Bates family, who were merchants, shipowners, and private bankers based in Liverpool. The aim is to develop a different persp…
Network Knowledge and Network Routines: Negotiating Activities between Shipowners and Shipbuilders
This article extends transaction cost economics by looking in detail at the sharp edge of exchange processes - negotiating activities. It also contributes to the literature exploring the properties of hierarchical organisations and networks. The article suggests that networks possess the equivalent to organisational knowledge. This 'network knowledge' consists of ethical prescriptions which guide behaviour as well as routines that are understood …
The Steel Manufacturers' Nickel Syndicate Ltd., 1904–39: Assessing the Conduct and Performance of a Cooperative Purchasing Organization
This paper seeks to extend our knowledge of intermediate transacting frameworks by examining the history of the Steel Manufacturers' Nickel Syndicate. The study shows how constituents arranged and employed inter‐organizational communication lines to create a durable cooperative purchasing syndicate that had a special relationship with a New Caledonian supplier. By measuring the financial advantages that members secured by participation relative t…
Assessing Information Quality Theories: The USS Joint Venture with William Holyman & Sons and Huddart Parker Ltd, 1904-35
Scholars concerned with an information-based view of an economy make an implicit assumption that firm efficiencies are based on information of good quality. In this firm-specific study an explanation of the importance of information quality is given by utilising and extending Casson's diagrammatic methodology for representing information flows. This has been done by measuring aspects of the information flows through Wm. Holyman & Sons Ltd and Hol…
Thers, Syndicates, and Stock Promotions: Information Flows and Fund-raising Techniques of British Shipowners Before 1914
Analysis of British capital market operations before 1914 has focused on institutional and investor behavior without fully considering entrepreneurial conduct. Consequently, those who argue that industrial performance was impaired because capital flows were obstructed by information blockages have overlooked the role company owners could play in shaping communication lines. The fund-raising techniques used by shipowners reveal that private capita…
Multilateral Contracting in Australian Mining: The Development of Hamersley Iron, 1961–1966
Management theory andtransaction cost economics provide few insights into the dynamics of multilateral negotiations. A host of factors suggest that complex transactions—especially those that involve government agencies—face a high probability of failure. Yet history records many examples of successful multiple-party transactions. Using the records of a major Australian iron ore mining venture, Hamersley Iron, this article reveals a number of the …
Transferring Capabilities across Sectoral Frontiers: Shipowners Entering the Airline Business, 1920–1970
The Development of the Cargo Fleet Iron Company, 1900–1914: Entrepreneurship, Costs, and Structural Rigidity in the Northeast Coast Steel Industry
Focusing on the Caigo Fleet Iron Company and its local competitors in Britain's Northeast, this article examines one company's response to changes in the steelmaking environment. By providing data at the firm level, the article is able to highlight specific contributing factors that are often invisible when scholars discuss Britain's industrial decline in the aggregate
The Growth and Dissolution of a Large-Scale Business Enterprise: The Furness Interest, 1892–1919
This book is an in-depth case study of the Furness Withy and Co Shipping Group, which operated both tramp and liner services and was one of the five major British shipping groups of the early twentieth century. It demonstrates how British shipowners of this period generated success by exploring Christopher Furness' career in relation to the social, political, and cultural currents during a time of tremendous shipping growth in Britain and the est…
The Growth and Dissolution of a Large-Scale Business Enterprise: The Furness Interest, 1892–1919
This book is an in-depth case study of the Furness Withy and Co Shipping Group, which operated both tramp and liner services and was one of the five major British shipping groups of the early twentieth century. It demonstrates how British shipowners of this period generated success by exploring Christopher Furness' career in relation to the social, political, and cultural currents during a time of tremendous shipping growth in Britain and the est…
The Development of the Cargo Fleet Iron Company, 1900–1914: Entrepreneurship, Costs, and Structural Rigidity in the Northeast Coast Steel Industry
Focusing on the Caigo Fleet Iron Company and its local competitors in Britain's Northeast, this article examines one company's response to changes in the steelmaking environment. By providing data at the firm level, the article is able to highlight specific contributing factors that are often invisible when scholars discuss Britain's industrial decline in the aggregate
Thers, Syndicates, and Stock Promotions: Information Flows and Fund-raising Techniques of British Shipowners Before 1914
Analysis of British capital market operations before 1914 has focused on institutional and investor behavior without fully considering entrepreneurial conduct. Consequently, those who argue that industrial performance was impaired because capital flows were obstructed by information blockages have overlooked the role company owners could play in shaping communication lines. The fund-raising techniques used by shipowners reveal that private capita…
The Japanese Iron and Steel Industry, 1850-1990: Continuity and Discontinuity
The Western Mining Corporation–Hanna/Homestake Joint Venture: Game Theory and Inter–Organizational Cooperation
In 1962, Western Mining Corporation along with M. A. Hanna and the Homestake Mining Company formed a joint venture to explore and develop iron ore deposits in Western Australia. The partners successfully developed one ore field, but failed to build an enduring business relationship. The paper uses game theory to examine joint venture dynamics. It finds that the partners could not transform a Prisoners’ Dilemma scenario into a coordination game be…
The Western Mining Corporation‐Hanna/Homestake Joint Venture: Game Theory and Inter‐Organizational Cooperation
In 1962, Western Mining Corporation along with M. A. Hanna and the Homestake Mining Company formed a joint venture to explore and develop iron ore deposits in Western Australia. The partners successfully developed one ore field, but failed to build an enduring business relationship. The paper uses game theory to examine joint venture dynamics. It finds that the partners could not transform a Prisoners' Dilemma scenario into a coordination game be…
Notes on Gordon H. Boyce, Information, Mediation and Institutional Development: The Rise of Large-Scale Enterprise in British Shipping, 1870–1919
Union Steam Ship Company of New Zealand and the Adoption of Oil Propulsion: Learning-by-Using Effects
La compagnie de l'union des navires a vapeur adopta le systeme de propulsion a essence grâce a l'innovation technologique et a la diffusion de l'information
The Steel Manufacturers' Nickel Syndicate Ltd., 1904–39: Assessing the Conduct and Performance of a Cooperative Purchasing Organization
This paper seeks to extend our knowledge of intermediate transacting frameworks by examining the history of the Steel Manufacturers' Nickel Syndicate. The study shows how constituents arranged and employed inter‐organizational communication lines to create a durable cooperative purchasing syndicate that had a special relationship with a New Caledonian supplier. By measuring the financial advantages that members secured by participation relative t…
Informational Costs and Institutional Typologies: A Review Article
Books reviewed in this article: Mark Casson, Information and Organisation. A New Perspective on the Theory of the Firm Takao Shiba and Masahiro Shimotani (eds), Beyond the Firm. Business Groups in International Historical Perspective
A Professional Association as Network and Communicating Node: The Pharmaceutical Society of Australasia, 1857–1918
This paper explicitly examines the communicating processes that conditioned the dynamic interaction between recognized norms and legislative activity affecting the professional development of pharmacists. The Pharmaceutical Society of Australasia successfully developed communication channels, exploited recognized models, and created institutional constructs. In contrast to much of the literature which attributes professionalization to the pursuit…
Multilateral Contracting in Australian Mining: The Development of Hamersley Iron, 1961–1966
Management theory andtransaction cost economics provide few insights into the dynamics of multilateral negotiations. A host of factors suggest that complex transactions—especially those that involve government agencies—face a high probability of failure. Yet history records many examples of successful multiple-party transactions. Using the records of a major Australian iron ore mining venture, Hamersley Iron, this article reveals a number of the …
Transferring Capabilities across Sectoral Frontiers: Shipowners Entering the Airline Business, 1920–1970
Resources and Infrastructures in the Maritime Economy, 1500-2000
This book provides a study of both the physical and intangible frameworks that enabled maritime resources to flow and infrastructures to operate. The aim is to demonstrate the complexity and diversity of the legal, social, cultural, and institutional forces at work within maritime economics. Port development, planning, and policy-making constitute the physical frameworks, while agency structures and consular networks make up the non-physical fact…
Assessing Information Quality Theories: The USS Joint Venture with William Holyman & Sons and Huddart Parker Ltd, 1904-35
Scholars concerned with an information-based view of an economy make an implicit assumption that firm efficiencies are based on information of good quality. In this firm-specific study an explanation of the importance of information quality is given by utilising and extending Casson's diagrammatic methodology for representing information flows. This has been done by measuring aspects of the information flows through Wm. Holyman & Sons Ltd and Hol…
Network Knowledge and Network Routines: Negotiating Activities between Shipowners and Shipbuilders
This article extends transaction cost economics by looking in detail at the sharp edge of exchange processes - negotiating activities. It also contributes to the literature exploring the properties of hierarchical organisations and networks. The article suggests that networks possess the equivalent to organisational knowledge. This 'network knowledge' consists of ethical prescriptions which guide behaviour as well as routines that are understood …
Norwegian Whaling in Newfoundland: The Aquaforte Station and the Ellefsen Family, 1902-1908
Introduction: Mining History in Context
This article introduces the theme and the articles in this special issue of the Australian Economic History Review on mining history. It puts the subject of the articles in the context of current changes in the global mining industry and notes the themes that may be explored in further research
Books
Changing Ways of Death in Twentieth Century Australia. By Pat Jalland. Sydney: UNSW Press, 2006. Pp. 409. $39.95 paper. A Different Sort of War: Australians in Korea, 1950–53. By Richard Trembath. Melbourne: Australian Scholarly Publishing, 2005. Pp. 266. $34.95 paper. New Zealand and the Vietnam War: Politics and Diplomacy. By Roberto Rabel. Auckland: Auckland University Press, 2005. Pp. xi + 443. NZ$49.99 paper. The Encyclopedia of Melbourne. E…
The Internationalisation Strategies of Small‐country Firms. The Australian Experience of Globalisation
Language and Culture in a Liverpool Merchant Family Firm, 1870–1950
Ethnographic methods are applied to this investigation of the links between language and business culture found in letters exchanged in the 1880s, 1900s, 1930s, and 1940s among members of a long-lived family-owned business. The letters are contained in three sets of correspondence between three different generations of the Bates family, who were merchants, shipowners, and private bankers based in Liverpool. The aim is to develop a different persp…
Edward Bates and Sons, 1897-1915: Tramping Operations in Recession and Recovery
This essay presents new firm-level evidence to supplement our limited knowledge of tramp shipping operations between 1897 and 1915. The records of Edward Bates and Sons, which operated a mixed fleet of sail and steam vessels, reveal details of trading patterns, decision-making and the skills needed to master what Robin Craig called “the difficult art of tramp ship management.” The Bates papers provide particularly valuable insights because they s…
The Growth and Dissolution of a Large-Scale Business Enterprise: The Furness Interest 1892–1919
Maritime Networks, History of
Resources and Infrastructures in the Maritime Economy, 1500-2000
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