State Intervention in Urban Passenger Transportation: The Transport Corporation of Buenos Aires, 1939-1962

Heras, Raúl García

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“…Thereafter number of buses run by small operators peaked at 550 in 1925 and then declined rapidly as the existing companies bought them out (Barker and Robbins, 1976). This transition from disorderly competition to regulated provision is also observable in the same period in Buenos Aires (Heras, 1994) and Santiago (Figueroa, 2013) as well as being replicated more recently in Bogota (Bocarejo et al, 2013).…”

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confidence: 88%

“…This "hybrid" mix of state and market principles, practices and symbols occurred in other major cities. This outcome had close parallels to the Corporacion de Transportes de la Ciudad de Buenos Aires in Argentina (Heras, 1994), as well as some commonalities with the French Régie Autonome des Transports Parisiens (Garbutt, 1997) and the New York City Transit Authority (Cudahy, 1995). Domestically, the Board also had some resemblances to the contemporaneous British Broadcasting Corporation and the Central Electricity Board in the UK (Millward and Singleton, 1995).…”

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confidence: 84%

“…Just as importantly, we argue this period also covers the major defining moment in the process of unifying London Transport, the so-called "pirate bus" crisis in 1924. In common with some other jurisdictions, this arose from the unregulated proliferation of private buses which caused danger, congestion, a fall in revenues and transport workers' wages and a strike (Barker and Robbins, 1976;Cudahy, 1995;Heras, 1994;Croome and Jackson, 1993;Mom, 2015). We propose that the London "pirate buses" were especially influential because they exposed both a market failure and a democratic deficit simultaneously.…”

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Making a hybrid out of a crisis: historical contingency and the institutional logics of London’s public transport monopoly

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2021

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Purpose Literature seldom admits the importance of historical contingency and politics in the creation of hybrid organisations. Nevertheless, the circumstances of their creation play a pivotal role in the subsequent operation, priorities and success of these prolific organisations. Through a single case study, this paper aims to explore the connection between the multiple and concurrent crises that created London Transport and the subsequent balance of its institutional logics. Design/methodology/approach This case study uses in-depth data collection from multiple archival and public sources to offer quantitative and qualitative analysis of the priorities, logics and services offered by London Transport before and after its transition from a private to a hybrid organisation. Findings Providing London’s transport via a quasi-autonomous non-governmental monopoly was justified as being more efficient than competition. However, by applying accounting ratios to the archival records from London Transport, the authors find that there were few decisive efficiencies gained from amalgamation. Instead, the authors argue that the balance of institutional logics within the new, unified organisation showed a political response outwardly addressing market failure but primarily concerned with marginalising democratic control. This reality was obscured behind the rhetoric of rationality and efficiency as politically neutral justifications for creating a public service monopoly. Originality/value This paper challenges supposedly objective systems for judging the effectiveness of “hybrid” organisations and offers an alternative political and historical perspective of the reasons for their creation. The authors suggest that London Transport’s success in obscuring its enduring market-based institutional logics has wider resonance in the development of municipal capitalism.

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Foreign Business-Host Government Relations: The Anglo Argentine Tramways Co. Ltd. of Buenos Aires, 1930–1966

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From 1880 to 1930, Argentina received hundreds of millions of pounds of British investments, making it in an economic sense a British dominion. The world economic crisis of the 1930s forced both Britain and Argentina t o reconsider many of these economic ties. The changing Anglo-Argentine relationship is reflected in the complex relations between a British tramway company, the Anglo Argentine Tramways Co. Ltd., that operated in Buenos Aires and the Argentine national government between the onset of the Great Depression and the early 1960s. The Anglo, as the company was popularly known, was the main tramway concern diat offered public transportation and contributed to the urban development of a cosmopolitan Latin American metropolis until 1914. Second, the history of the company illustrates political and economic problems that plagued the links between foreign public utilities and the host government from the 1930s onwards. Third, since the Anglo belonged to SOFINA, a transnational holding company with worldwide investments in public transportation and electric power stations, our case study shows the limitations of Sofina's political power in Britain and Argentina.

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State Intervention in Urban Passenger Transportation: The Transport Corporation of Buenos Aires, 1939-1962

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Making a hybrid out of a crisis: historical contingency and the institutional logics of London’s public transport monopoly

Making a hybrid out of a crisis: historical contingency and the institutional logics of London’s public transport monopoly

Foreign Business-Host Government Relations: The Anglo Argentine Tramways Co. Ltd. of Buenos Aires, 1930–1966

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