Journal of Management History: Volume 12 Issue 1

Management and its history: the worthy endeavour of the scribe

David Lamond

This paper introduces the Journal of Management History, relaunched as a stand‐alone journal and explores its raison d'être.

A conceptual history of entrepreneurial thought

Patrick J. Murphy, Jianwen Liao, Harold P. Welsch

To interpret and explain evolution in entrepreneurial thought, using the application of history to unify the extant and wide‐ranging concepts underlying the field to detect a…

Comparing institutionalisms: Gino Zappa and John R. Commons' accounts of “institution” as a groundwork for a constructivist view

Giovanni Battista Dagnino, Paolo Quattrone

The aim of this paper is twofold: on the one hand, it discusses first the notion of istituto as it has been developed by Gino Zappa within the Italian research tradition known as…

Rules as received practice: historical perspective and implications for managers

Alma Whiteley

To report on an exploratory study on unwritten rules carried out in Australia, place this study in the context of the historical development of thought on rules and discuss…

Inter‐corporate ownership and diversification in the Canadian economy 1976‐1995

Rod B. McNaughton, Milford B. Green

To test the hypothesis of increased specialisation during the 1980s in the aggregate pattern of intercorporate ownership in the Canadian economy.

A tale of two fires: igniting social expectations for managers' responsibility

Paul L. Govekar, Michele A. Govekar

To compare and contrast the 1911 Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire and the 1991 Hamlet, North Carolina, chicken processing plant fire to determine what lessons were learned and…

A historical investigation of the strategic process within family firms

Patrick M. Kreiser, Jari Ojala, Juha‐Antti Lamberg, Anders Melander

The primary purpose of this paper was to perform an in‐depth analysis of the strategic process that occurs within family firms.

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