'Basically a Half-way House': Not for Profit in British Transport

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:	05 Nov 2024 09:39 UTC
Resource URI:	https://kar.kent.ac.uk/id/eprint/7675 (The current URI for this page, for reference purposes)

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