Fowler, James (2018) How History Challenges Current Thinking on Hybridity: The Effects of Hybridity on London’s Transport 1933–1948. In: Hybridity in the Governance and Delivery of Public Services. Studies in Public and Non-Profit Governance, Seven . Emerald Group Publishing, pp. 7-30. ISBN 9781787437708. Official URL: http://doi.org/10.1108/S2051-663020180000007011
Fowler, James (2018) How History Challenges Current Thinking on Hybridity: The Effects of Hybridity on London’s Transport 1933–1948. In: Hybridity in the Governance and Delivery of Public Services. Studies in Public and Non-Profit Governance, Seven . Emerald Group Publishing, pp. 7-30. ISBN 9781787437708. Official URL: http://doi.org/10.1108/S2051-663020180000007011
Fowler, James (2018) How History Challenges Current Thinking on Hybridity: The Effects of Hybridity on London’s Transport 1933–1948. In: Hybridity in the Governance and Delivery of Public Services. Studies in Public and Non-Profit Governance, Seven . Emerald Group Publishing, pp. 7-30. ISBN 9781787437708. Official URL: http://doi.org/10.1108/S2051-663020180000007011
Abstract
This chapter discusses the cross-sectional relationships between national and local government, citizens and hybrid organisations via a historical case study, that of the London Passenger Transport Board (LPTB) during its existence 1933–1948. It finds that the LPTB was a good example of hybridity located in an earlier time period than most research examines, and that the arrangements by which it was governed resulted in some counter-intuitive outcomes which challenge the findings from research located in more recent periods concerning the performance of hybrid organisations. However, it supports other research proposing that the role of elites as well as institutional contexts is a key factor in the creation and operation of semi-autonomous organisations, and it accepts that objectively measuring the performance in order to make meaningful comparison is not only extremely problematic but may even inhibit performance.
Item Type: | Book Section |
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Uncontrolled Keywords: | Political Science |
Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences Faculty of Social Sciences > Essex Business School |
SWORD Depositor: | Unnamed user with email elements@essex.ac.uk |
Depositing User: | Unnamed user with email elements@essex.ac.uk |
Date Deposited: | 06 Mar 2023 14:48 |
Last Modified: | 16 May 2024 19:49 |
URI: | http://repository.essex.ac.uk/id/eprint/35043 |
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