Journal of Management History
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Back to roots! The singular introduction of statutory auditing in France, Germany and Great Britain (1844–1935)
Christine Fournès, Helena Karjalainen, Laurent Beduneau-WangThis paper aims to better understand auditing practices as a social phenomenon and management practice through a comparative historical analysis of the emergence of statutory…
Unveiling the intellectual nexus between Peirce’s synechism and Goldratt’s theory of constraints: insights for management and organization studies
Søren Skjold Andersen, Mahesh C. Gupta, Diego Augusto de Jesus PachecoCharles Sanders Peirce (1839–1914), recognized as the father of philosophical pragmatism, has been described as a philosopher’s philosopher. Eliyahu Moshe Goldratt (1947–2011)…
Adapting Western management practices: the rationalization and Taylorization of Turkish state monopolies in early republican Turkey (1933–1950)
Akansel YalçınkayaThis paper aims to investigate the introduction of rationalist concepts through Taylorization to Turkey during the early republican era, using Wallace Clark’s case of the Turkish…
Rooting firm responsibility in social-ecological systems through ancient Nahua thought: rethinking the logic model in the global reporting initiative
Jason Good, Bryan W. HustedThe logic models at the center of leading environmental, social and governance (ESG) reporting programs, such as the global reporting initiative, impose a dualistic relationship…
Osmice at the crossroads: the dialectical interplay of tradition, modernity and cultural identity in family businesses
Marco Balzano, Giacomo MarziThis study aims to explore the dialectical interplay between traditional roots and contemporary challenges faced by family businesses, specifically focusing on “Osmice” (in…
History’s view on the principal–agent relationship: including history, context and change. Evidence from three historical cases in the Southern Netherlands
Sander BerghmansThe principal–agent literature often draws criticism for its ahistorical, acontextual and static nature, particularly when theories such as the agency or the stewardship theory…
The “mythologies” of women at work, interrupted: feminist origins antenarratives from Harvard Business Review and Western University’s The Quarterly, Part I
Stefanie RuelThe author aims to walk beside the singular privileged class of White women’s suffrage feminist origin story to (re)construct plausible feminist fragmented threads as…
Entrepreneurial leadership and transformational leadership: a historical-comparative conceptual analysis
Preman ChandranathanThis article provides a historical-comparative conceptual analysis of entrepreneurial leadership and transformational leadership, aiming to critically appraise how the latter has…
Innovation investment and performance: the moderating role of university collaborations
Carlos PlataConsidering the historical evolution of innovation dynamics, and its paradoxical state, and answering Nelson (2008) and Winter (2014), this paper aims to analyze the dynamics of…
Immigrant women entrepreneurship research: mapping the field
Sara Poggesi, Michela MariImmigrant entrepreneurship, particularly immigrant women entrepreneurship, has recently gained socioeconomic attention. However, this issue does not seem to have found proper…
Management’s Gadfly: a critical biography approach to the work of Upton Sinclair
Michael J. ZickarThe purpose of this paper is to examine the life and work, both fiction and nonfiction, of the American author Upton Sinclair, for the purposes of better understanding his impact…
Toward an alternative history of commercial education in Latin America: lessons from the emergence of the first commercial school in 1820s Argentina
Adrien Jean-Guy PassantThis paper aims to examine the creation of the first commercial school in early independent Argentina in 1826 – the Academy of Accountancy of Buenos Aires (AABA) – at the request…
The troubled establishment of the Tourist Hotel Corporation of New Zealand
Andrew CardowBy 1901, New Zealand had the first national government-controlled department of tourism in the world. This was the vehicle used to acquire and control tourism assets. In 1954, the…
Understanding and studying value as a duality
Gregory Dole, Linda DuxburyTo cope successfully with the pressures imposed by a devastating pandemic and other challenges, companies and policymakers need to look at how they conceptualize, define, measure…
Boundary spanning activities and resource orchestration as microfoundations of dynamic capability: a systematic literature review
Aziz Fajar Ariwibowo, Adi Zakaria Afiff, Riani Rachmawati, Ratih Dyah KusumastutiThe interest of scholars to study microfoundations of dynamic capability has increased. Literatures associated with them are rapidly and diversely developing. This study aims to…
What characterizes strategy research in Latin America? A bibliometric analysis for the 1990–2023 period
Hugo-Alberto Rivera-Rodríguez, Alejandro Beltrán Duque, Juan Camilo Sánchez-LópezThis article examines strategic management research across Latin America from 1990 to 2023, addressing four critical inquiries: the themes prevalent in strategic discussions, the…
After more than a hundred years of research on entrepreneurship, what about looking for H.E.R.?
Diego MatricanoThe purpose of this paper is to answer a well-known but always-current question: what is the focus of entrepreneurship research? Usually, scholars address their attention toward…
From SOFT approach to SWOT analysis, a historical reconstruction
Richard W. Puyt, Finn Birger Lie, Dag Øivind MadsenThe purpose of this study is to revisit the conventional wisdom about a key contribution [i.e. strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, threats (SWOT) analysis] in the field of…
Emergence of chambers in the Turkish history: the case of Dersaadet Chamber of Commerce (DCC) as a public-agent meta-organization, 1882–1929
Ali Doğan, Mehmet ErçekBuilding on previous historical works, this study aims to develop a framework to represent chambers as meta-organizations and present the case of Dersaadet Chamber of Commerce…
Hard and soft governance mechanisms for large projects. A historical perspective
Maria Cleofe Giorgino, Federico BarnabèDrawing motivation from the greater exposure to uncertainty and condition changes that affect large projects due to their long lifecycle, this paper aims to investigate how the…
Women’s entrepreneurship education: a systematic review and future agenda
Younggeun Lee, Eric W. Liguori, Riya Sureka, Satish KumarIn this systematic review of the literature on women’s entrepreneurship education, this paper aims to examine the current state of the field. The authors analyze publication…
From Allston to Ahmedabad: American hegemony in management education reexamined
Keshav KrishnamurtyThis paper aims to study the origin story of Harvard Business School’s involvement with the Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad to study the reasons for the spread of…
In search of breadth and depth: the origin story of a multidisciplinary faculty of management
Kim Brooks, Thomas NichiniThis paper aims to use the origin story of Dalhousie’s Faculty of Management as a foil for unpacking the tensions between deep disciplinary specialization and liberal education in…
New institutional theory and AI: toward rethinking of artificial intelligence in organizations
Ihor Rudko, Aysan Bashirpour Bonab, Maria Fedele, Anna Vittoria FormisanoThis study, a theoretical article, aims to introduce new institutionalism as a framework through which business and management researchers can explore the significance of…
Entrepreneurial migrations and diffusion of innovations: the case of Apulia in the first half of the 19th century
Stella Lippolis, Dario Dell’Osa, Ezio RitrovatoThrough the reconstruction of the events of some foreign entrepreneurs who worked in the territory of the Italian city of Bari in the first half of the 19th century, this paper…
The political alignment of presidents of the early Royal Society of London
Mark Adrian GovierThis study aims to identify the political alignment and political activity of the 11 Presidents of Britain’s most important scientific organisation, the Royal Society of London…
When government is the solution: creating the arms industry in the Connecticut River Valley in the 1800s
Robert Ford, Lindsay Schakenbach RegeleThis historical example of the creation of the arms industry in the Connecticut River Valley in the 1800s provides new insights into the value of government venture capital (GVC…
The two ages of electric vehicle promotion in the United States; a comparative thematic analysis, 1910s-2010s
Patrick LecourThere is a lot of talk about the electric car today, but these vehicles are not new. Indeed, thebeginning of the 20th century saw electricity and the automobile take hold in North…
Open innovation and new product development: major themes and research trajectories
Sonica RautelaThis paper aims to review the extant literature on open innovation and new product development (NPD) using bibliometric analysis to gauge the evolving journey of this concept in…
Intercultural transfer over the Atlantic in early 20th century – How the European cooperative banking system travelled to Quebec: the case of Desjardins Group
Christoph Barmeyer, Tobi RodrigueThis paper aims to study historical intercultural transfer by examining the case of the Mouvement Desjardins, a Quebec, Canada-based cooperative bank founded in 1900 by Alphonse…
The role of networks for women’s empowerment. The case of Industrie Femminili Italiane at the beginning of 20th century
Francesca Picciaia, Simone Terzani, Libero Mario MariThis paper aims to analyse the role of a network in the development of female business experiences through the study of the Industrie Femminili Italiane (I.F.I.) (Italian Women’s…
Proximal versus distal temporal orientation in an infinite game: lessons from the 1892 Homestead Massacre
Erik TaylorWorking conditions, pay rates and the rights of workers to collectively negotiate have become important points of discussions in recent years, with support for unions and union…
ANTi-microhistory of social innovation: humanistic education at Robert Owen’s New Harmony experiment
Foster B. Roberts, Milorad M. Novicevic, John H. HumphreysThe purpose of this study is to present ANTi-microhistory of social innovation in education within Robert Owen’s communal experiment at New Harmony, Indiana. The authors zoom out…
The principal–agent problem and its mitigation: a critical historical analysis
Tony Yan, Michael R. HymanThe purpose of this paper is to provide a critical historical analysis of the business (mis)behaviors and influencing factors that discourage enduring cooperation between…
Emerging from the chaos of Management Theory Jungle: a historical analysis of the development of the four principles of management
Robert Lloyd, Daniel Mertens, Přemysl Pálka, Salvador VillegasThis paper aims to map the antecedents and precursory contexts regarding the four principles of management. Moreover, a description of its codification and coalescence as a…
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