{"title":"Frontiers Of Management History","description":"\u003cp\u003eDelve into the evolution of management thought with this insightful series. Explore the key figures, theories, and practices that have shaped the modern workplace, perfect for business enthusiasts and history buffs alike.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"collective-entrepreneurship-in-the-contemporary-european-services-industries-book-paloma-prez-9781801179515","title":"Collective Entrepreneurship in the Contemporary European Services Industries","description":"Collective entrepreneurship plays an important role in European service activities such as tourism, health care, leisure, trade, logistics and transportation. Collective Entrepreneurship in the Contemporary European Services Industries provides a historical account and a managerial approach on how companies in the service industry have grown, innovated, and internationalised along the last centuries in Western Europe.   Using collective entrepreneurship and collaborative networks within firms and between firms and external associations and institutions such as governments, the authors contribute to a better interdisciplinary understanding of the long-term dynamics of European companies.   Collective Entrepreneurship in the Contemporary European Services Industries borrows and applies existing concepts and theories from business history and from entrepreneurship. A multidisciplinary and inter-territorial approach, this collection combines business history and entrepreneurship theory to respond to recent calls for a historic turn in entrepreneurship studies, offering the opportunity to relaunch the dialogue between history and theory.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ LIKE_NEW \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49585953472785,"sku":"GOR013221302","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52429395689745,"sku":"NLS9781801179515","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1801179514.jpg?v=1751091710"},{"product_id":"emergence-of-modern-hospital-management-and-organisation-in-the-world-1880s-1930-book-paloma-prez-9781787699908","title":"The Emergence of Modern Hospital Management and Organisation in the World 1880s-1930s","description":"The Emergence of Modern Hospital Management and Organisation in the World 1880s-1930s analyzes core themes from a business history perspective to reach a new understanding about the history of modern large scale healthcare institutions, from the United States to China, with particular attention to Spain.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ GARDNERS","offer_id":49738032611601,"sku":"NGR9781787699908","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52613254873361,"sku":"NLS9781787699908","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1787699900.jpg?v=1751410963"},{"product_id":"london-transport-book-james-fowler-9781789739541","title":"London Transport","description":"The London Passenger Transport Board (LPTB) was a unique hybrid public body accountable only to a small number of stakeholders, yet it delivered substantial improvements in public services and provided good working conditions for its employees at the cost of its investors.     London Transport: A Hybrid in History 1905-48 innovatively combines a revisionist historical narrative with a systematic analysis of quantitative and qualitative research to explore how and why the LPTB achieved rare popularity amongst its customers. Divided into three sections, the book explores the financial operations of the Board, the Board as a system of governance and the leadership and management within the LPTB. Using the extensive Transport for London archives, James Fowler conducts a timely assessment of the public network utility that once made London transport domestically popular and internationally admired.      With debates about British transport policy ongoing, this book is an illuminating read for scholars and students researching within the areas of business management history, transport and public sector governance and administration.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ GARDNERS","offer_id":49738147004689,"sku":"NGR9781789739541","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52139943264529,"sku":"NLS9781789739541","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1789739543.jpg?v=1751059685"},{"product_id":"strategy-and-managed-decline-book-james-fowler-9781800431898","title":"Strategy and Managed Decline","description":"Why do organisations decline, and what happens when they do? Strategy and Managed Decline: London Transport 1948-87 is a historical case study looking at how London Transport, a world beater in 1948, declined from being an international exemplar to dilapidation in 30 years.   Strategy and Managed Decline considers the inheritance left by the founders of London Transport and subjects their legacy to a strategic and political audit. In three sections, the book examines archival data from the Transport for London (TfL) Archive covering the car revolution, strategic political clashes and the performance of the chairmen to challenge existing theory and extant histories. It offers hypotheses situated in management, leadership, politics and strategy which explain the decades of deterioration followed by a dramatic revival in the late 1980s.   Examining the turbulent politics of the long conflict between London Transport, municipal and national government in detail, Strategy and Managed Decline: London Transport 1948-87 offers novel interpretations of events by objectively analysing the strategic stories that politics created about London’s transport. It concludes by asking whether a shift in managerial strategy away from maximising utility and towards cost minimisation caused, or was just coincident with, resurgence and explores what lessons there are for TfL today.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":50726793085201,"sku":"GOR014049789","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":51248507420945,"sku":"NIN9781800431898","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52530616238353,"sku":"NLS9781800431898","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1800431899.jpg?v=1751378617"},{"product_id":"red-taylorist-book-diana-kelly-9781787699861","title":"The Red Taylorist","description":"The Red Taylorist traces the adult life and works of Walter Polakov, focusing on his socialist scientific management ideals and the ways these were constrained by conventionality in the USA in the first half of twentieth century. Tracing Polakov's activities and achievements, this book explores the contradictions of a prolific writer, socialist engineer and scientific management ideologue in the decades until his death in 1948.    Written from a management history scholarly perspective, it presents a unique and detailed viewpoint. There have been no prior biographies on Polakov, and very few on his fellow scientific managers, consulting engineers, or like-minded public intellectuals. Moreover, perceptions of scientific management or Taylorism have tended to emphasise the negative impacts on workers, whereas Polakov's socialist commitment suggests a much more nuanced approach.      Aimed at scholars of management and history of management, Diana Kelly offers a detailed narrative of this important individual, while greatly enriching understanding of the broader historical and industrial context.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"- \/ - \/ -","offer_id":51081293988113,"sku":"","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":51081295757585,"sku":"NIN9781787699861","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52690480759057,"sku":"NLS9781787699861","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1787699862.jpg?v=1751153827"},{"product_id":"foundations-of-managing-british-olympics-book-alex-g-gillett-9781802620962","title":"Foundations of Managing British Olympics","description":"This interdisciplinary study examines the organisation, administration, and public benefits of Olympic Games in the United Kingdom.In particular, the study will examine the events of the twentieth century, the 1908 and 1948 Olympic Games, drawing upon archive materials.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"- \/ - \/ -","offer_id":51627453481233,"sku":"","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ GARDNERS","offer_id":51627454103825,"sku":"NGR9781802620962","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52475863630097,"sku":"NLS9781802620962","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52725102575889,"sku":"NIN9781802620962","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1802620966.jpg?v=1754488350"}],"url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/collections\/frontiers-of-management-history-book-series.oembed","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}