Roy Edwards
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 3946321 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Roy Edwards |
| PRENOMES | Roy |
| SOBRENOME | Edwards |
| ASSINATURA | EDWARDS R |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of Southampton |
| VERIFICADO | Não |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 12 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 6 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 12 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1959 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 2 |
Britain’s First Net Zero
This paper assesses a major transition in energy usage and distribution in the United Kingdom (UK) between 1953–73 as domestic coal gave way to electricity, and a centralized electricity generation and distribution system reached every home in the country. Our analysis significantly extends and reinterprets the business history of the National Grid by exploring the consequences of its completion. We argue that the National Grid facilitated the re…
Passengers, citizens, customers
This paper examines a transformation in the corporate control of London’s transport between 1977 and 1987. We offer a detailed case study explaining how a corporatist consensus broke down, what replaced it, and why. By 1977, London Transport was a centralised monopoly captured by its producer groups while passengers were treated as passive recipients. Two alternatives presented themselves: a utility maximising perspective, empowering passengers a…
Richard Byrom, Willaim Fairbairn the Experimental Engineer
Industrial archaeology
Navigating the M-Form
This article seeks to explore the process whereby General Electric (GE) entered the computer industry during the mid-late 1950s. We explore the articulation of an internally contested business model through the study of the Product Scope Review (PSR) meeting which took place in October 1957. The article provides evidence of the difficulties surrounding the management of complex high technology industry in a large multi-divisional firm with compet…
Personal capitalism and corporate governance
Personal capitalism and corporate governance: British manufacturing in the first half of the twentieth century, by Roger Lloyd-Jones, Josephine Maltby, Myrddin John Lewis, and Mark David Matthews
Keeping unbroken ways’
With the amalgamation of Britain's rail network in 1923, the role of the Railway Clearing House (RCH) in co-ordinating, operating and commercial decision making might have been expected to diminish. Instead the Clearing House secretariat extended its involvement in pricing and co-ordination between the ‘big four’ railway companies and even became the basis for the new nationalised industry in 1947. This paper explores the RCH as a venue for discu…
Divisional train control and the emergence of dynamic capabilities
This paper explores the implementation of a centralised system of train control on the London Midland and Scottish Railway (LMS) to collect, collate and analyse information required for monitoring the conveyance of traffic and use of assets. The paper provides evidence for the emergence of dynamic capabilities and cautions how these concepts are used in practice. The articulation and codification of experience that defines Zollo and Winter (2002)…
British Rail 1974-97
The recent history of Britain's railways would be a farce were it not so tragic. By the 1970s, the glamour of steam and the supposedly glorious days of pre-World War II rail transport were long gone. Technology had changed but working practices remained out of date and labor relations always seemed problematic at best. The volume under review follows on from Terry Gourvish's British Railways, 1948-73, and examines the period leading up to privati…
Conceptualising cost
This article describes how the demand for management information in an accounting format developed on Britain's railways. From the turn of the twentieth century there had been concern expressed over the relationship between cost and the efficiency of operations. While internal systems of management information had been in place for many years, they did not reflect accounting terminology or practice. It was with the desire of government to co‐ordi…
Cut 'n Shoot, Texas
Hunters, Traitors, Patriots and Politicians
Keeping unbroken ways’
With the amalgamation of Britain's rail network in 1923, the role of the Railway Clearing House (RCH) in co-ordinating, operating and commercial decision making might have been expected to diminish. Instead the Clearing House secretariat extended its involvement in pricing and co-ordination between the ‘big four’ railway companies and even became the basis for the new nationalised industry in 1947. This paper explores the RCH as a venue for discu…
Conceptualising cost
This article describes how the demand for management information in an accounting format developed on Britain's railways. From the turn of the twentieth century there had been concern expressed over the relationship between cost and the efficiency of operations. While internal systems of management information had been in place for many years, they did not reflect accounting terminology or practice. It was with the desire of government to co‐ordi…
Navigating the M-Form
This article seeks to explore the process whereby General Electric (GE) entered the computer industry during the mid-late 1950s. We explore the articulation of an internally contested business model through the study of the Product Scope Review (PSR) meeting which took place in October 1957. The article provides evidence of the difficulties surrounding the management of complex high technology industry in a large multi-divisional firm with compet…
Divisional train control and the emergence of dynamic capabilities
This paper explores the implementation of a centralised system of train control on the London Midland and Scottish Railway (LMS) to collect, collate and analyse information required for monitoring the conveyance of traffic and use of assets. The paper provides evidence for the emergence of dynamic capabilities and cautions how these concepts are used in practice. The articulation and codification of experience that defines Zollo and Winter (2002)…
Cut 'n Shoot, Texas
Conceptualising cost
This article describes how the demand for management information in an accounting format developed on Britain's railways. From the turn of the twentieth century there had been concern expressed over the relationship between cost and the efficiency of operations. While internal systems of management information had been in place for many years, they did not reflect accounting terminology or practice. It was with the desire of government to co‐ordi…
British Rail 1974-97
The recent history of Britain's railways would be a farce were it not so tragic. By the 1970s, the glamour of steam and the supposedly glorious days of pre-World War II rail transport were long gone. Technology had changed but working practices remained out of date and labor relations always seemed problematic at best. The volume under review follows on from Terry Gourvish's British Railways, 1948-73, and examines the period leading up to privati…
Divisional train control and the emergence of dynamic capabilities
This paper explores the implementation of a centralised system of train control on the London Midland and Scottish Railway (LMS) to collect, collate and analyse information required for monitoring the conveyance of traffic and use of assets. The paper provides evidence for the emergence of dynamic capabilities and cautions how these concepts are used in practice. The articulation and codification of experience that defines Zollo and Winter (2002)…
Personal capitalism and corporate governance
Personal capitalism and corporate governance: British manufacturing in the first half of the twentieth century, by Roger Lloyd-Jones, Josephine Maltby, Myrddin John Lewis, and Mark David Matthews
Keeping unbroken ways’
With the amalgamation of Britain's rail network in 1923, the role of the Railway Clearing House (RCH) in co-ordinating, operating and commercial decision making might have been expected to diminish. Instead the Clearing House secretariat extended its involvement in pricing and co-ordination between the ‘big four’ railway companies and even became the basis for the new nationalised industry in 1947. This paper explores the RCH as a venue for discu…
Navigating the M-Form
This article seeks to explore the process whereby General Electric (GE) entered the computer industry during the mid-late 1950s. We explore the articulation of an internally contested business model through the study of the Product Scope Review (PSR) meeting which took place in October 1957. The article provides evidence of the difficulties surrounding the management of complex high technology industry in a large multi-divisional firm with compet…
Industrial archaeology
Richard Byrom, Willaim Fairbairn the Experimental Engineer
Hunters, Traitors, Patriots and Politicians
Britain’s First Net Zero
This paper assesses a major transition in energy usage and distribution in the United Kingdom (UK) between 1953–73 as domestic coal gave way to electricity, and a centralized electricity generation and distribution system reached every home in the country. Our analysis significantly extends and reinterprets the business history of the National Grid by exploring the consequences of its completion. We argue that the National Grid facilitated the re…
Passengers, citizens, customers
This paper examines a transformation in the corporate control of London’s transport between 1977 and 1987. We offer a detailed case study explaining how a corporatist consensus broke down, what replaced it, and why. By 1977, London Transport was a centralised monopoly captured by its producer groups while passengers were treated as passive recipients. Two alternatives presented themselves: a utility maximising perspective, empowering passengers a…
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