Journal of Management History: Volume 13 Issue 1

Moral cover for capitalism: The harmony‐of‐interests doctrine

Virginia W. Gerde, Michael G. Goldsby, Jon M. Shepard

In The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism, Max Weber chronicled how seventeenth‐century religious tenets expounded by John Calvin inadvertently laid the ideological…

The ethos of business in H.G. Wells' novel The Wife of Sir Isaac Harman (1914)

Bogdan Costea, Kostas Amiridis

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the way in which H.G. Wells' 1914 novel The Wife of Sir Isaac Harman might be interpreted as an “essay” illustrating some key aspects…

The whistle‐blowing zone: applying Barnard's insights to a modern ethical dilemma

Dae‐il Nam, David J. Lemak

The purpose of this paper is to apply Chester Barnard's ideas about authority in organizations to the modern phenomenon of “whistle‐blowing” and highlight insights that can…

The “business ethics” of management theory

Mark Schwartz

The purpose of this paper is to examine the current gap between the subjects of business ethics and pre‐1960 management theory.

Corporate social responsibility in the 1920s: an institutional perspective

Richard C. Hoffman

The purpose of this study is to better understand the origins of modern corporate social responsibility. The paper seeks to examine some factors that enabled the new industrial…

Integrity: a systems theory classification

Rosa Nelly Trevinyo‐Rodríguez

The purpose of this paper is to provide a meaningful framework for the classification of the integrity trait in the moral context (ethics), offering an understandable…

Curves in the high road: A historical analysis of the development of American business codes of ethics

Stephen B. Knouse, Vanessa D. Hill, J. Brooke Hamilton

The purpose of this paper is to trace a history of American codes of business ethics as they evolved from religious bases to legalistic bases to an international emphasis.

Emerald at 40

Rebecca Marsh

Introduction

Paul Govekar