Journal of Management History: Volume 28 Issue 1

Guest editorial

Matteo Cristofaro, Mario Hayek, Wallace A. Williams, Jr, Christopher Michael Hartt, Joyce T. Heames

James G. March and management history: the case of government reorganizations

Hindy Lauer Schachter

The purpose of this paper is to examine March and Olsen’s 1983 study of American Government reorganization attempts between 1904 and 1980 in relation to three debates in…

March’s foolish views on leadership, or how to fail optimistically, pursue ethical authenticity, choose mindful resilience and enable ambiguous innovation

Susana Fernández Fernández

The purpose of this paper is to refract March’s views on leadership to re-frame them within an authentic model that understands optimistic failure and mindful resilience as likely…

James March and the poetry of leadership

Richard Badham

Taking issue with the predominance of reviews of James March’s writings that focus on his technical contributions to organizational studies, this study aims to emphasize the…

James March: a postmodern perspective on organization without management theory

Gilles Lambert

In this paper, the authors look back at James March’s main contributions to the evolution of organizations and their decision-making. No other author in management science has…

March-ing to the beat of a Maverick Drummer: insights from John Boyd to inform behavioral perspectives

Mie Augier, Sean F.X. Barrett

The purpose of this paper is to discuss some of James G. March’s key ideas and extend and integrate them with the works and ideas of John Boyd, whose work is highly relevant to…

Tracing the influence of James March’s most cited works: an empirical approach using historical analysis of co-citation contexts

Russell K. Lemken, Marc H. Anderson

The purpose of this study is to examine the historical continuity of James March’s contributions to management scholarship by tracing the co-citations that appear within the…

ANTi-History of the functionalist paradigm in organization theory: using the lens of March and Simon’s Organizations

Albert James Mills, Milorad Miodr Novicevic, Foster Roberts

This paper aims to examine the role of James March and his actor-network in the development of a functionalist paradigm of organization theory (OT). Recognizing the important…

A case for poetry as history and a methodology with poems by James G. March

Jyoti Bachani

This study aims to reveal a lesser known side of Late James G. March, as a poet, by offering a curated selection of his poems. The other purpose of this study is to make a case…