Stalled Professionalism: The Recruitment of Railway Officials in the United States, 1885–1940*

Stuart Morris

Business History Review, 1973, vol. 47, issue 3, 317-334

Abstract: Professor Morris' investigation of American railway management indicates that the railroads, which had been such innovative institutions in the nineteenth century, clung to ossified and outmoded managerial practices after the industry reached maturity. Inbred and inflexible systems of recruitment and promotion, he argues, were a noteworthy aspect of the economic decline of American railroads in the twentieth century.

Date: 1973
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