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| Author: | Tyrrall, D. Parker, D. |
| Title: | The fragmentation of a railway: A study of organizational change |
| Journal: | Journal of Management Studies
2005 : MAY, VOL 42:3, p. 507-537 |
| Index terms: | Organizational change Privatization Rail transport United Kingdom |
| Language: | eng |
| Abstract: | This paper considers pathways of organizational change (hereafter as: o-chg.) within British Rail (BR) during its long period of commercialization culminating in privatization (here as: priv). The frameworks of Laughlin (1991) and Parker (1995a) are used to demonstrate how a new interpretative scheme (here as: i-sch.) supplanted the previous i-sch. within BR btw. the 1970s and priv. in the mid-1990s, leading to a fragmented organization. BR did not survive and priv. of Britains railways remains controversial. The study demonstrates that without the earlier changes in i-sch. from 'social railway' to 'business railway' to 'profitable business', and the associated changes in design archetypes and sub-systems, priv. would have been both less tempting and less feasible. The developed approach to analyse o-chg. in BR is intended to be applicable for other privatizations etc. in both the public and private sectors. |
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