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Title Naval leadership and management, 1650-1950 : essays in honour of Michael Duffy / edited by Helen Doe and Richard Harding
Published Woodbridge : Boydell Press, 2012

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Description 1 online resource (xiv, 206 pages)
Contents Michael Duffy : an appreciation / Roger Knight -- Introduction / Richard Harding -- Admiral Rainier's management challenges, 1794-1805 / Peter Ward -- Neglect or treason : leadership failure in the mid-eighteenth-century Royal Navy / Richard Harding -- Who has command? The Royal Artillerymen aboard Royal Navy warships in the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars / Gareth Cole -- "The marine officer is a raw lad and therefore troublesome' : Royal Naval officers and the officers of the Marines, 1755-1797 / Britt Zerbe -- High exertions and difficult cases : the work of the transport agent at Portsmouth and Southampton, 1795-1797 / Roger Morriss -- Forgotten or ignored, the officers at Invergordon : 'We are doing this for you as well you know' / Mike Farquharson-Roberts -- 'To excite the whole company to courage and bravery' : the incentivisation of British privateering crews, 1702-1815 / David J. Starkey -- New kinds of discipline : the Royal Navy in the second half of the nineteenth century / Oliver Walton -- Towards a hierarchy of management : the Victorian and Edwardian navy, 1860-1918 / Mary Jones -- Leadership training for midshipmen, c.1919-1939 / Elinor Romans
Summary Navies were among the earliest large, global ""corporations"", and many of the issues which preoccupy contemporary business leaders and managers were confronted and dealt with by naval leaders in earlier periods, as this book ably demonstrates
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Great Britain. Royal Navy -- History
Great Britain. Royal Navy -- Officers -- History
SUBJECT Great Britain. Royal Navy fast
Subject Naval art and science -- Great Britain -- History
Leadership -- Case studies
Naval art and science.
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING -- Marine & Naval.
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING -- Military Science.
HISTORY -- Military -- Naval.
Armed Forces -- Officers
Leadership
Naval art and science
Great Britain
Genre/Form Case studies
History
Form Electronic book
Author Doe, Helen
Harding, Richard, 1953-
Duffy, Michael, 1944-
ISBN 9781846159275
184615927X