Telecommunications Function in the British Post Office. A case study in bureaucratic adaption
Details:
- Author(s) Pitt, Douglas C
- Publication type Monograph
- Year published 1980
- Pages 193pp
- Publisher Saxon House
- Place Published Farnborough
Topics:
- Name Public ownership & control inc nationalisation, municipalisation & privatisation
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Library:
- Name British Library
- City London
- County Greater London
- Country England
- Postcode NW1 2DB
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Notes:
Scholarly work being a case study in the history of public administration, analysing the Post Office's absorption of telecommunications into its bureaucracy and their subsequent hiving off. Structured in seven parts: 1] 'The Post Office - some organisational perspectives'; 2] 'The 'telephone question' - a brief history of the Victorian telephone system'; 3] 'Assimilation - the incorporation of telephones into the Post Office'; 4] 'The Bridgeman Committee - establishment, deliberations and conclusions'; 5] War and postwar - environmental constraints on organisational change'; 6] 'Hiving off - the final act!'; 7] 'A retrospective view'