Jupe, Robert E., Crompton, Gerald W. (2003) 'Basically a Half-way House': Not for Profit in British Transport. In: Ninth Accounting and Management History Conference, Paris. (The full text of this publication is not currently available from this repository. You may be able to access a copy if URLs are provided) (KAR id:7675)
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Abstract
The paper examines the brief and unsuccessful career of the privately-owned
infrastructure company, Railtrack, and its part in the privatised railway system in the UK
between 1996 and 2001. It discusses the decision of the British government to discontinue
public support for Railtrack and to set up a new not-for-profit company, Network Rail, to
replace it. The ongoing public debate over these events and the prospects for the new
company are analysed. Two earlier, and broadly successful, examples of not-for-profit
companies in British transport history, are briefly considered for comparative purposes - the
Port of London Authority and the London Passenger Transport Board.
| Item Type: | Conference or workshop item (Paper) |
|---|---|
| Subjects: | H Social Sciences |
| Divisions: | Divisions > Kent Business School - Division > Kent Business School (do not use) |
| Depositing User: | Robert Jupe |
| Date Deposited: | 11 Sep 2008 12:43 UTC |
| Last Modified: | 16 Nov 2021 09:45 UTC |
| Resource URI: | https://kar.kent.ac.uk/id/eprint/7675 (The current URI for this page, for reference purposes) |
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