Journal of Management History: Volume 18 Issue 3

Paradigmatic plurality or citation market?: A longue durée perspective of management writing

François‐Xavier de Vaujany

This essay aims to focus on the long‐term emergence of management research journals, and highlights the social, cultural, technological and financial factors that facilitate or…

Narrative analysis of Dale Carnegie's How to Stop Worrying and Start Living: Using psychological capital as the analytical framework

Mario Hayek, Milorad M. Novicevic, M. Ronald Buckley, Russell W. Clayton, Foster Roberts

The purpose of this paper is to examine how one of Dale Carnegie's historically best selling self‐help books, How to Stop Worrying and Start Living, resonates with the…

Groupthink and the Sanhedrin: An analysis of the ancient court of Israel through the lens of modern social psychology

Eliezer Schnall, Michael J. Greenberg

Despite the emphasis on contemporary historical case studies in groupthink research, Janis believed that examining decision‐making processes recorded in antiquity was also…

The history of overseas Lebanese entrepreneurs operating worldwide

Zafar U. Ahmed, Philip W. Zgheib, Abdulrahim K. Kowatly, Peter Rhetts

The Lebanese began their present emigration in the middle of the nineteenth century, heading towards North America, Central and South America, Europe, Africa, and Australia…

The origins of personnel management: reasserting the public sector experience

Louise Thornthwaite

With their focus on private companies, histories of personnel management and human resource management have neglected the much earlier development of these practices in public…

The personification of an object and the emergence of coaching

Deryk Stec

This article aims to place the emergence of coaching in its appropriate historical context and address the lack of historical attention given to this subject. In tracing the path…

Global and empirical management history?

Shawn M. Carraher