...James Reveley; John Singleton Purpose By juxtaposing fatal colliery explosions in early twentieth-century Britain and in 2010 at Pike River, New Zealand, this paper aims to investigate the generalizability of the mock bureaucracy concept to underground coal mining disasters. Design/methodology...

... of the strategies that one would expect in the light of resource dependency theory, relying instead on market exchanges. Design/methodology/approach This study relies primarily on archival sources, held by the Departments of Mines and Natural Resources in Victoria (British Columbia) and Brisbane (Australia...

...Gary M. Fleischman; Roland E. Kidwell; Linda Achey Kidwell Purpose The purpose of this paper is to trace the entrepreneurial opportunity identification process of William Oscar Carpenter (WOC), a nineteenth century farmer, who went to California in 1850 to make his fortune in gold mining and ended...

... and organizations. It should be of particular interest to scholars interested in sociotechnical systems. The movement was informed through insights gained by Trist and Bramforth (1951) through their investigations of the mechanism of the Durham coal mines in Britain. The essence of their observational research...