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Networks throughout an institutional transition: the case of the former Meliá touristic group (1932-1978) Management & Organizational History (IF 1.303) Pub Date : 2024-02-25 Teresa Mateo López-Mora, Águeda Gil-López, Elena San Román López, Alicia Sierra Gómez
This study explores how networks for entrepreneurial activities evolve and change during an institutional transition at the macro level. For this purpose, we present the historical case study of Me...
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Form and media in management and organizational history how different research programs transform the ‘Past’ into ‘History’ Management & Organizational History (IF 1.303) Pub Date : 2024-01-17 Niels Åkerstrøm Andersen, Mads Mordhorst
Management and organizational history has devoted relatively little attention to what constitutes ‘data’, hindering potentially productive discussions between diverse research programs. This articl...
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Origin and consolidation of the hotel sector in the capital of Spanish tourism: San Sebastián between 1868 and 1914 Management & Organizational History (IF 1.303) Pub Date : 2023-11-28 Carlos Larrinaga
The objective of this article is to study the origin and consolidation of the hotel industry in the city of San Sebastián, the tourism capital of Spain between the last third of the nineteenth cent...
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Managing Brazil’s participation in the 1970 football World Cup: meaning in the service of power Management & Organizational History (IF 1.303) Pub Date : 2023-11-28 Lídia Oliveira, Ana Caria, Helena Costa Oliveira, Janaína Almeida
This paper focuses on the management of Brazilian participation in the 1970 FIFA World Cup in Mexico. It analyzes discourses in the press to critically discuss how power relations were combined in ...
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Colonization and different types of institutional change: findings from an ex-British colony Management & Organizational History (IF 1.303) Pub Date : 2023-11-28 Epaminondas Epaminonda
This paper analyzes institutional change during the British colonial period (1878–1960) and briefly after independence in Cyprus and discusses different types of institutional transformations and t...
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The rise of new public management at the institutional level: an analysis of a Dutch university and the role of administrators in initiating organizational change, 1980s to 2010s Management & Organizational History (IF 1.303) Pub Date : 2023-08-15 Floris J. N. van Berckel Smit
New Public Management (NPM) is a remarkable development in the history of the management of public and semi-public organizations and one that requires more attention from historians working on the ...
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Taking the time: remembering values-based legacy to serve organizational purposes Management & Organizational History (IF 1.303) Pub Date : 2023-08-03 Gry Espedal
ABSTRACT How is a values-based legacy worked on in organizations to influence organizational members’ practices to bring forward the organizational purpose? Earlier studies have highlighted the process of remembering the organization’s motto as a way of recontextualizing the past, as well as the leaders’ role in recalling values. In analyzing both pioneers and contemporary leaders of a 150-year-old
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Clipping the wings of theorists: the unacknowledged contribution to management thought from the shopfloor Management & Organizational History (IF 1.303) Pub Date : 2023-07-13 Jeffrey Muldoon, Anthony M. Gould, Jean-Etienne Joullié
ABSTRACT Mainstream as well as critical management history literature typically establishes theorists as the most consequential protagonists in the process that created the default blueprint for employee superintendence. Accordingly, in the wake of the Industrial Revolution, the new capitalists and their agents (the emerging management class), were theoretically ill-equipped to oversee large scale
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From bookkeepers to entrepreneurs: a historical perspective on the entrepreneurial diversification of a French business school over 200 years Management & Organizational History (IF 1.303) Pub Date : 2023-07-13 Adrien Jean-Guy Passant
Although entrepreneurship is presently one of the core elements of business schools’ curricula worldwide, little is known about the emergence and evolution of this type of training outside the U.S....
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Models, objects, and ghosts: visualizing history Management & Organizational History (IF 1.303) Pub Date : 2023-05-12 David J. Staley, Benjamin Asmussen
Abstract Why is contemporary academic history mainly practiced through writing, while visualization of history is msotly found in museums and in non-academic genres? This essay explores five different methods of visualizing history to provide a starting point for discussions of the value of visualizations. The methods are first historical paintings, either contemporary with the events depicted or created
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Methods of musement: Cultivating serious play in research on business and organization Management & Organizational History (IF 1.303) Pub Date : 2023-03-13 R. Daniel Wadhwani, Anders R. Sørensen
ABSTRACT We explicate the value and practices of ‘serious play’ in historical and organizational research. In particular, we draw on the philosophy of Charles Peirce to consider why and how playful methods are effective for abductive inference. Introducing the papers in this special issue, we highlight four playful practices: (a) creating and categorizing new sources, (b) seeing a new, (c) sensing
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Business history and social media: A concise review Management & Organizational History (IF 1.303) Pub Date : 2023-03-05 Zhaojin Zeng, Junyi Tao
ABSTRACT In this short essay, we draw on recent studies in history, communication, information science, and social sciences to offer a concise review of the history of social media both as a business model and as a distinctive academic data source. We start with an overview of the development of social media platforms in the past several decades and then move into a brief survey of the state of the
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The promise of machine-learning- driven text analysis techniques for historical research: topic modeling and word embedding Management & Organizational History (IF 1.303) Pub Date : 2023-03-01 Marta Villamor Martin, David A. Kirsch, Fabian Prieto-Nañez
ABSTRACT Building upon our experience implementing a mixed method study combining historical and topic modeling techniques to explore how institutional voids are resolved and their relationship to formal/informal markets, we describe the promise of Topic Modeling techniques for historical studies. Recent advancements – particularly improvements in artificial intelligence and machine learning techniques
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Noticing Material Culture Management & Organizational History (IF 1.303) Pub Date : 2023-03-01 Jennifer M. Black
ABSTRACT Material culture can offer profitable primary sources for business historians, as several scholars have shown. This essay builds from a workshop held during the 2022 Business History Conference Mid-Year meeting, intended to challenge participants to rethink traditional sources through material culture methodologies. Broadly, the workshop asked participants to consider how material culture
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Account books as social technologies Management & Organizational History (IF 1.303) Pub Date : 2023-02-27 Rachel Tamar Van
ABSTRACT This article discusses how historians have reconceived account books from a source that describes economic and social actions to a social technology that constructs them. It examines the interpretive changes that this turn entailed and illustrates its application to three types of historical relationships: time, slavery, and the family. It aims to de-mystify account books as sources requiring
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Using born-digital archives for business history: EMCODIST and the case of E-mail Management & Organizational History (IF 1.303) Pub Date : 2023-02-26 David A. Kirsch, Stephanie Decker, Adam Nix, Shubhangkar Girish Jain, Santhilatha Kuppili Venkata
ABSTRACT Historians of business and management increasingly conduct research in digital archives. This article reviews some of the challenges and opportunities associated with the use of born-digital archives. As an example, we focus on scholarly use of large-scale organizational e-mail collections. In addition to allowing researchers to answer traditional questions about innovation, strategy and organizational
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Business history and the ‘practical turn’ Management & Organizational History (IF 1.303) Pub Date : 2023-02-26 John F. Wilson, Anna Tilba
ABSTRACT In addressing the urgent need for business historians to think about enhancing their relationships with practitioners, we advocate what we term a 'Practical Turn' (as opposed to a 'historic turn' or a 'narrative turn', as proposed by other scholars). Although not entirely original, this 'Practical Turn' is essential if the discipline is to gain greater credibility, especially in management
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Surveillance archive: using reports in business history Management & Organizational History (IF 1.303) Pub Date : 2023-02-23 Grace Ballor, Gabriela Recio, Sean H. Vanatta
ABSTRACT In a narrow sense, this essay is meant to encourage business historians to consider (and reconsider) the variety of public and private reports, which can provide insights into the operation of firms and industries. U.S. bank examiner reports tell us about how nineteenth century banks operated within a Republican political economy; European Union reports shine light on the differences and similarities
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Databases, network analysis and business history Management & Organizational History (IF 1.303) Pub Date : 2023-02-20 Alberto Rinaldi, Erica Salvaj, Susie J. Pak, Daniel S. Halgin
ABSTRACT This article discusses the application of Social Network Analysis (SNA) to corporate networks in a long-term and historical perspective. Starting with the basic concepts of corporate networks and the main research themes it has addressed in business history, the article then introduces how historical quantitative archival data can be played with and turned into excel data suitable for the
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Engaging with experiences: the senses as lenses in business history Management & Organizational History (IF 1.303) Pub Date : 2023-02-13 Ai Hisano, Sven Kube
ABSTRACT The senses have become an important part of business strategies and corporate activities, ranging from product design and marketing to customer relations. Reflecting on a growing interest in the senses among scholars and business practitioners, this essay provides a brief characterization of recent literature, proposes areas for future research, and discusses opportunities as well as challenges
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Ego-documents in management and organizational history Management & Organizational History (IF 1.303) Pub Date : 2022-12-25 Morten Tinning, Christina Lubinski
ABSTRACT The vibrant exchange between history and organization studies has triggered major debates on engaging historiography and theorizing with history. By comparison, studies of historical methods have received less attention. We argue that one missing debate concerns different typologies of sources, which facilitate systematic comparative analysis and interpretation. Specifically, we introduce
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Forest policies, administration, and management of the Leiria pinewood in Portugal (13th-18th centuries) Management & Organizational History (IF 1.303) Pub Date : 2022-12-15 Koldo Trapaga-Monchet, Raúl Romero-Calcerrada
ABSTRACT The pinewood of Leiria is the most renowned Portuguese woodland. This article aims to shed light on the forest policies, administration, and governance of the pinewood from its blurry origins in the late 1200s to the late 1700s. By the early 15th century the state (Monarchy) had established a permanent bureaucracy for its management, with the main purpose of ensuring the availability of timber
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How can “No-Growth Companies” succeed? Lessons from Majestic (1973–2012) Management & Organizational History (IF 1.303) Pub Date : 2022-12-01 Biagio Ciao
ABSTRACT Corporate growth triggers a virtuous circle by creating economies of scale and making more financial resources available to invest in powerful differentiation policies and in growth itself. Family businesses struggle to grow and, in some industries, are replaced by larger companies. By focusing on the case of a small Italian company, this paper elucidates how small companies can target particular
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The role of the Compañía de Riegos de Levante S.A. in the development of electricity in south-east Spain (1918-1940) Management & Organizational History (IF 1.303) Pub Date : 2022-10-28 Martín Sevilla Jiménez, Teresa Torregrosa
ABSTRACT Studies on the development of hydroelectricity in early twentieth century in Spain have paid very little attention to the south-eastern part of the country, specifically the provinces of Alicante and Murcia. The specific needs of this industry (regular flowing rivers and with steep slopes) were in conflict with the fact that there is only one large river in the area, the Segura River, with
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Corporate identity, company law and currency: a survey of community images on English bank notes Management & Organizational History (IF 1.303) Pub Date : 2022-08-10 Victoria Barnes, Lucy Newton
ABSTRACT Financial instruments are the subject of considerable interest. The supply of promissory notes has attracted the attention of financial historians, political economists and antiquarians, alike. We consider bank notes as a mechanism for building corporate identity. The article focuses on the bank notes that were issued in the early nineteenth century by newly established joint stock banks in
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Standing the test of time: understanding how long-living family firms make use of the past to preserve organizational identity Management & Organizational History (IF 1.303) Pub Date : 2022-05-26 Priscila Ferri, Adriana R. W. Takahashi
ABSTRACT In this paper, we discuss the historical dynamics that sustain organizational identity in long-living family firms. We do so through the analysis of the case of fifteen family-run restaurants located in São Paulo, Brazil. We discuss different modes of history use regarding identity preservation that fundament four main history-based strategies: Perpetuating family history; conserving the firm’s
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Making a healthy change: a historical analysis of workplace wellbeing Management & Organizational History (IF 1.303) Pub Date : 2022-05-02 James Wallace
ABSTRACT This paper looks at the precedents of current wellbeing programs, examining three historical modes of workplace wellbeing in order to analyze the way in which employees have become subjects of wellbeing discourse. In doing so, this paper seeks to illustrate the historical trajectory of the management of employee health, exploring both its disjunctures and continuities. It is argued that workplace
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The spirits of democratic enterprise: insights from the case of Denmark Management & Organizational History (IF 1.303) Pub Date : 2022-04-24 Benjamin Ask Popp-Madsen, Mathias Hein Jessen, Andreas Møller Mulvad
ABSTRACT This paper proposes an ideal typology, based on Danish cooperative history, of contending ‘spirits’ that inform the establishment of democratically-owned enterprises. Democratic enterprises have in recently been subject of increasing interest from scholars and activists as an alternative to the neoliberal corporation. However, studies on democratic enterprises lack a historical understanding
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Authority and democracy: the Barnardian way to resolve an apparent oxymoron Management & Organizational History (IF 1.303) Pub Date : 2022-04-13 Hervé Charmettant
ABSTRACT In « Dilemmas of Leadership in the Democratic Process», a little-known but thoughtful text, Chester Barnard promoted democratic governance in firms while making concessions for the difficulties that may arise in its implementation. It raises broader questions about Barnard’s thinking, particularly on the relationship between democracy and authority in the firm. Through this and other unknown
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Contextualizing corporate entrepreneurship theory: the historical case of the Spanish engineering consulting firm TYPSA (1966-2000) Management & Organizational History (IF 1.303) Pub Date : 2022-02-17 Adoración Álvaro-Moya, Águeda Gil López, Elena San Román
ABSTRACT Drawing on the corporate entrepreneurship (CE) theory, this article examines the rise of the Spanish engineering consulting firm Técnica y Proyectos SA (TYPSA), from its foundation, in 1966, as a project office within a larger national-based construction fgroup, until its consolidation as a family multinational in the 2000s. Our research shows how contextual and intra-organizational changes
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Organizational change, budgetary control and success and failure in Formula 1: Rubery Owen and British Racing Motors, 1947–1977 Management & Organizational History (IF 1.303) Pub Date : 2022-02-02 Trevor Boyns
ABSTRACT This study examines the life cycle of British Racing Motors Ltd. (BRM), from its early failures, through to the successes of the 1962–1965 period and its subsequent demise, in the light of managerial and organizational change at its parent company, the private family-owned business, Rubery Owen. Using the reports of British consultancy firms, supported by secondary sources, the study examines
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The use of civil administration budgets by the Japanese military government of the Micronesia territory from 1914 to 1922 Management & Organizational History (IF 1.303) Pub Date : 2021-08-30 Yuta Sumi
ABSTRACT Building on the concept of framing, this study analyzes the use of budgets by the Extraordinary Defense Corps, a unit of the Japanese Imperial Navy deployed to govern Micronesia during and immediately after World War I. A comparison of the use of budgets by the Defense Corps and the South Seas Agency, the civil authority that succeeded the Defense Corps as the territory’s governing body in
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The incorporation of women into the public sector in Chile, 1860–1930: from rejection to encouragement Management & Organizational History (IF 1.303) Pub Date : 2021-09-15 Diego Barría Traverso, Manuel Llorca-Jaña, Nathaly Sepúlveda
ABSTRACT The incorporation of women into the public arena has increasingly attracted the attention of scholars in public administration. Yet there has been little analysis of this phenomenon from a long-term perspective. This article is an evaluation of the integration of women into the public sector in Chile from the mid-nineteenth century to the Great Depression, c.1860–1930. Based on the national
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Schools of management thought: a text analysis of management books published in the first half of the twentieth century Management & Organizational History (IF 1.303) Pub Date : 2021-08-17 Thomas A. Stetz
ABSTRACT The first half of the twentieth century saw the emergence of a variety of management ideas and various schools of thought that occurred during this time. While there are commonalities, these schools are far from absolute. They often intertwine and use different terminology making distinctions difficult. To better understand how management thought developed, 27 management books from well-known
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Managing complex situations under uncertainty: flexibility or rule compliance? Evidence from the eighteenth-century naval battles of Chesapeake and Saintes Management & Organizational History (IF 1.303) Pub Date : 2021-09-24 Sophie Le Bris
ABSTRACT The objective of this study is to identify a resilient mode of management for a leader driving a system composed of different units (e.g., a fighting system) in a context where the complexity of a situation, time pressure, uncertainty, and the risk of irreversible errors constrain the possibilities of action. From a theoretical framework on reliability – the Highly Reliable Organization (HRO)
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Corporate paternalism on the rocks: a historical analysis of power relations in a mining town Management & Organizational History (IF 1.303) Pub Date : 2021-09-17 Johan Sandström, Curt Persson
ABSTRACT This article challenges a common position in research on company towns that corporate paternalism is relevant in the formative years, but then fades away due to urbanization, democratization and improved communications. But, paternalism, just as the phenomenon of company towns, lives on. Relating paternalistic practices to the company’s relation to the state, the worker collective, the built
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The social background of elite executives: the Swedish case Management & Organizational History (IF 1.303) Pub Date : 2021-07-28 Magnus Henrekson, Odd Lyssarides, Jan Ottosson
ABSTRACT Sweden is often described as a country where intergenerational social mobility is high, but research also shows that social mobility decreases the closer one gets to the extreme top of the income distribution. We study the occupational mobility for the CEOs of Sweden’s 30 largest public firms since 1945. The study is based on a data set consisting of 229 former and current CEOs who were born
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From the great depression to decolonization: entrepreneurship and capital returns in the Portuguese colonial empire Management & Organizational History (IF 1.303) Pub Date : 2021-06-04 José Rodrigues da Costa, Maria Eugénia Mata
ABSTRACT The integration of financial markets was a facet of the increasing globalization of the worldwide economy. The focus in this paper is the business organizational perspective of corporations that operated in Portuguese overseas territories: Distance, climate, lack of trained local labor force, and other difficulties related with cultural differences, required organizational aspects that represented
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Entrepreneurial Processes and Industry Development:The Case of Baltimore’s Canning Entrepreneurs Management & Organizational History (IF 1.303) Pub Date : 2021-05-27 Richard C. Hoffman
ABSTRACT Entrepreneurship is at the heart of new developments that often lead to the creation of new industries. This study examines the origins of the canning industry via the experiences of three of its earliest entrepreneurs: Edward Wright, William Numsen, and Thomas Kensett II. The narrative examines key aspects of the industry’s context including the growth in demand for preserved foods, the resources
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Captains of industry? Value allocation and the partnering effect of managerial discretion Management & Organizational History (IF 1.303) Pub Date : 2021-02-12 Segrestin Blanche, Armand Hatchuel, Ken Starkey
ABSTRACT Can value allocation be left to managerial discretion and does corporate law provide the basis for a balanced stakeholder management and a fair allocation of results? This question is central in an age of inequality. We argue that it can be reappraised by building upon the case of maritime law. Whereas in corporate law, the board is in charge of allocating the results, maritime law stipulates
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Organizing careers for work – The curriculum vitae (CV) in Prussia’s technical bureaucracy, c. 1770-1830 Management & Organizational History (IF 1.303) Pub Date : 2021-03-23 Stephan Strunz
ABSTRACT This paper explores the history of the curriculum vitae (CV) as a medium of job application in the Prussian technical bureaucracy around 1800. A document that so far has not received much attention in historiographical works, appeared as a major tool for bureaucratic innovation at the end of the eighteenth century. Drawing on primary archival sources, this paper will raise three major points
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Building Multinationals in the Mediterranean: balearic island hotels in the 1990s Management & Organizational History (IF 1.303) Pub Date : 2021-04-02 Joan Carles Cirer-Costa
ABSTRACT This paper analyzes the international expansion of five hotel companies based in the Balearic Islands that expanded their operations to the Caribbean and other tourist destinations throughout the last fifteen years of the twentieth century and successfully became multinational firms. The five companies, which were strictly family-run enterprises, went through an initial phase of rapid growth
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The limits of the narratives of strategy: three stories from the history of music retail Management & Organizational History (IF 1.303) Pub Date : 2021-01-26 Kevin D. Tennent, Simon M. Mollan
ABSTRACT This paper examines the role of narrative framing in the perception of strategic success by exploring the construction of notions of strategy in relation to the perspective of different actors in the same historical episode. Our article is about the UK music retailing industry from the late 1950s until the present. We narrate three stories/accounts – one focusing on the perspective of larger
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Making managers: a fresh look Management & Organizational History (IF 1.303) Pub Date : 2020-11-29 Matthias Kipping, Rolv Petter Amdam, Jacqueline McGlade
(2020). Making managers: a fresh look. Management & Organizational History: Vol. 15, Making Managers, pp. 91-114.
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From the ‘science’ of practices to management science: milestones for a history of management education in France (1900s-2000s) Management & Organizational History (IF 1.303) Pub Date : 2020-12-01 Eric Godelier
ABSTRACT France is not usually perceived as a Nation of Managers and Management even if Frenchmen, like H. Fayol could probably be considered as one of the inventors of modern Management. Another misconception about France is that most of its modern management models and methods have been imported from the USA after WWII. Does this mean that nothing existed before this time in France? This paper aims
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Struggle over employees psychological well-being. The politization and depolitization of the debate on employee mental health in the Finnish insurance sector Management & Organizational History (IF 1.303) Pub Date : 2020-11-10 Anna Kuokkanen, Pekka Varje, Ari Väänänen
ABSTRACT This article examines the emergence and evolution of the discourse on mental health problems as an occupational health risk in the professional debates among Finnish insurance workers from a historical perspective. Our findings indicate that the mental health discourse was influenced by organizational, cultural and political changes. We also found that the employee’s role and the power relations
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Potentialization: loosening up relations between public organizations and societal function systems Management & Organizational History (IF 1.303) Pub Date : 2020-09-07 Niels Åkerstrøm Andersen
ABSTRACT This article provides a historical perspective on the relations between public organizations and function systems using Denmark as case. Current concepts like ‘public value’, ‘co-creation’, ‘relational coordination’ and ‘inter-professional management’ promises new coherence and shared communities in the single public organization. The present article argues that rather than building up communities
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Apprenticeship and product quality: empirical analysis on the sake brewing industry Management & Organizational History (IF 1.303) Pub Date : 2020-08-24 Keisuke Hori, Yusuke Hoshino, Hiroshi Shimizu
ABSTRACT Do apprenticeships enhance product quality? Whether guilds and apprenticeships have promoted technological change has been debated, but the issue remains unsettled because of the lack of data which allows us to empirically assess technological change by apprenticeships in the comparison with technological change by non-apprenticeships. By scrutinizing apprenticeships in the sake brewing industry
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The rise of the technological manager in India in the 1960s: the role of the Indian institutes of management Management & Organizational History (IF 1.303) Pub Date : 2020-06-20 Chinmay Tumbe
ABSTRACT A distinctive aspect of India’s managerial elite is that it is dominated by people with an educational background in engineering. This paper unravels the history of how this major phenomenon arose, by tracking the evolution of management education in mid-twentieth century India. It emphasizes the significance of the network developed between the Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) and Indian
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The ‘value’ of business archives: assessing the academic importance of corporate archival collections Management & Organizational History (IF 1.303) Pub Date : 2020-06-09 Andrew Hull, Peter Scott
ABSTRACT Corporate archives represent the primary source material for business and management historians. Given that many of the most extensive and important business archives are held and managed by the corporations that generated them, maintaining corporate ‘buy-in’ to preserving records and making archives available to researchers is vital to our discipline. However, corporate archives have to justify
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Making managers in the U.S. military: the case of the Army Management School, 1945-1970 Management & Organizational History (IF 1.303) Pub Date : 2020-05-29 A. Junn Murphy
ABSTRACT Under pressure to cut costs after World War II, leaders in the U.S. Department of Defense recruited managers from private industry to help them run the Cold War national security state. Management became an area of focused intervention in the Army around 1950, when leaders across the defense establishment began adopting management education programs and research for use in the military. Through
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Engineering way lost: Norwegian engineers’ reactions to challenges from Americanization and industrial democracy Management & Organizational History (IF 1.303) Pub Date : 2020-05-26 Pål Nygaard
ABSTRACT This article investigates how the Norwegian Engineering Association responded to challenges from Americanization and industrial democracy in the period from 1945 to 1980. This period was the heydays of the engineering way to top management positions in Norway. The engineering way was justified with reference to the engineers technical ‘Fachkompetenz’. As in many countries, Norway became subject
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‘Measured by two yardsticks’: women in bank management training, 1960s to 1990s Management & Organizational History (IF 1.303) Pub Date : 2020-05-05 Allison Elias
ABSTRACT In the 1960s and 1970s, the United States government ordered corporations to remedy sex discrimination by increasing the number of women working in male-dominated job categories. This article traces the grassroots activism and government policies that led to the creation of management training programs for women in the commercial banking industry. To move women into the managerial job of a
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Achieving competitive balance in the face of resource uncertainty: a resource dependence perspective on the Negro Leagues Management & Organizational History (IF 1.303) Pub Date : 2020-04-15 Kenneth York, Cynthia Miree
ABSTRACT Resource Dependence Theory suggests that organizations faced with high resource dependency on actors in their external environment will take action to manage or minimize the dependence. In the early twentieth century, the Negro Leagues were faced with such a resource dilemma. At the same time, the ability to achieve competitive balance is another important predictor of success for sports leagues
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Re-imagining management education in post-WWII Britain: views from government and business Management & Organizational History (IF 1.303) Pub Date : 2020-03-31 Mitchell J. Larson
ABSTRACT This paper questions what British management education promoters sought to create through their efforts to establish high-level business training institutes in Britain in the 1960s. In response to the landmark Robbins Report of 1963, businessmen and politicians re-imagined management education and in doing so formed a new type of management education institute to operate alongside, and ultimately
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Introduction: Business and the Law Management & Organizational History (IF 1.303) Pub Date : 2020-02-04 Louis Pahlow, Sebastian Teupe
(2019). Introduction: Business and the Law. Management & Organizational History: Vol. 14, Business and the Law, pp. 311-316.
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The laws of the economy: decriminalizing business transgressions in the late 19th century Management & Organizational History (IF 1.303) Pub Date : 2019-12-17 Sverre Flaatten
ABSTRACT This article examines the relationship between law and business, and the connection between criminal law and civil law in controlling economic transgressions. In the late 19th century, governments all over Europe sought to establish new legislation regulating the economy. This was also the case in Norway. Traditionally, this had been done through criminal law, but, as argued in this paper
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Managing technical changes from the scales of legal regulation: German clean cars against the European pollutant emissions regulations in the 1980s Management & Organizational History (IF 1.303) Pub Date : 2019-12-17 Samuel Klebaner, Sigfrido M. Ramírez Pérez
ABSTRACT In this paper, we analyze how public regulators and regulated businesses interpreted and influenced legal change implying technological shift. Based on the economics literature on technical change and legal history literature, we provide a constructivist and systematic framework to analyze law as mediation between regulators and firms’ respective behaviors. The analyzed historical case deals
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Divestment cycles in the Portuguese electrical and electronics industry – an historical, multilevel analysis (1975–2015) Management & Organizational History (IF 1.303) Pub Date : 2019-12-06 Pedro Silva, Antonio Moreira
ABSTRACT This article deals with the topic of divestment. In the early 1990s, the Portuguese electrical and electronics industry (EEI) attracted high levels of foreign direct investment. This increase in capital flows played an important role in Portugal’s economic development. However, after a period of growth and expansion, divestments became more common and the Portuguese government had to work
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Speaking frankly – parrhesia and public service Management & Organizational History (IF 1.303) Pub Date : 2019-12-06 Edward Barratt
ABSTRACT This discussion addresses the history of bureaucratic frank counsel in the British Civil Service, exploring the possibilities and limitations of concepts associated with the later Foucault for its analysis. Foucault makes clear in his lectures that the notion of parrhesia has a long and varied history. This discussion considers a particular trajectory of this ancient idea: the practice of