Wilson and Thomson argued that it was the substantially
larger companies that were created out of the mergers of the mid-1840s that
forced executives to experiment with management structures, the most noticeable
case being that of Captain Mark Huish on the London and North Western Railway (L&NWR).[3] Indeed,
Hodgkins describes Sir Edward Watkin’s role in addressing managerial challenges within the L&NWR in the late 1840s and 1850s, such as the ‘advantages and
disadvantages of contracting out maintenance’ and building up information
systems[4]
[1] Wilson, John F. and Thomson, Andrew, The Making of Modern Management: British Management in Historical
Perspective, (Oxford,
2009), p.57
[2] Bonavia, Michael, R. The Organisation of British Railways, (Shepperton, 1971), p.12
[3] Wilson, and Thomson, The Making of Modern Management, p.57
[4] Hodgkins, David, The
Second Railway King: The Life and Times of Sir Edward Watkin, (Landybie,
2002), p.71-73
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