TY - JOUR
T1 - Managerial Ideology and Identity in the Nationalised British Coal Industry, 1947-1994
AU - Perchard, Andrew
AU - Gildart, Keith
N1 - Funding information: Research Council (AHRC) (UK) funded project, ‘On Behalf of the People: Work, Community and Class in the British Coal Industry, 1947-1994’, and the ‘Deindustrialization and the Politics of Our Time’ project funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC).
PY - 2023/2
Y1 - 2023/2
N2 - This article examines managerial ideology and identity in the nationalised British coal industry. On nationalisation in 1947, the National Coal Board (NCB) – after 1987 the British Coal Corporation – became the largest socialised industry outside of the Communist Bloc. Privatised in 1994, as part of liberal market reforms, the industry was a crucible for ideological clashes amongst managers. Our article responds to interest in the impact of managerial ideologies and identities on organisations and in the search for illuminating historical case studies in different organisational settings. We position those ideological clashes, and distinctive managerial identities, within a moral economic framework.
AB - This article examines managerial ideology and identity in the nationalised British coal industry. On nationalisation in 1947, the National Coal Board (NCB) – after 1987 the British Coal Corporation – became the largest socialised industry outside of the Communist Bloc. Privatised in 1994, as part of liberal market reforms, the industry was a crucible for ideological clashes amongst managers. Our article responds to interest in the impact of managerial ideologies and identities on organisations and in the search for illuminating historical case studies in different organisational settings. We position those ideological clashes, and distinctive managerial identities, within a moral economic framework.
KW - management
KW - public ownership
KW - coal industry
KW - ideology
KW - moral economy
KW - Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management
KW - Management of Technology and Innovation
KW - Strategy and Management
KW - General Business, Management and Accounting
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/85124332437
U2 - 10.1177/0143831X211069413
DO - 10.1177/0143831X211069413
M3 - Article
SN - 0143-831X
VL - 44
SP - 230
EP - 261
JO - Economic and Industrial Democracy
JF - Economic and Industrial Democracy
IS - 1
ER -
