{"product_id":"strategy-and-managed-decline-james-fowler-9781800431898","title":"Strategy and Managed Decline: London Transport 1948-87","description":"\u003cp\u003eWhy do organisations decline, and what happens when they do? \u003cem\u003eStrategy and Managed Decline: London Transport 1948-87\u003c\/em\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eStrategy and Managed Decline\u003c\/em\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eExamining the turbulent politics of the long conflict between London Transport, municipal and national government in detail, \u003cem\u003eStrategy and Managed Decline: London Transport 1948-87\u003c\/em\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e James Fowler\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1800431899\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781800431898\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Emerald Publishing Limited\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/03\/2021\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 184\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.92lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.50d","brand":"James Fowler","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48996087595263,"sku":"9781800431898","price":99.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/strategy-and-managed-decline-james-fowler-9781800431898","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}