Journal of Management History: Volume 19 Issue 2

Sailing away: the influences on and motivations of George Caspar Homans

Jeffrey Muldoon, Eric W. Liguori, Joshua Bendickson

How do social factors motivate and influence scholars when they theorize? By exploring the life of George Homans, this paper aims to illustrate that theories are the products of…

Collaboration and networking in the process of innovation: the path to precision time keeping

Tony Proctor

The purpose of this paper is to examine the process of innovation management in the eighteenth century in the context of the search for precision time keeping in the watch making…

The first systematized uses of the term “management” in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries

Thibault Le Texier

The aim of this paper is to seek to reveal the familial roots of modern management thought, largely overlooked by a vast majority of management historians.

Cost accounting and scientific management in libraries: a historical overview

Kate‐Riin Kont

The aim of this paper is to focus on the history of cost accounting, costing, and time and motion studies, which were initially developed for industry and private sector…

Evergreens of excellence

André A. de Waal

At the end of 2007, the Journal of Management History published a special issue on the topic of excellence, titled Our Dreams of Excellence. In this issue, Guest Editor…

Conceptualising the nature of work: revisiting Luther Gulick's theories of organisation

Richard Breese

The aim of this paper is to evaluate the coherence of Gulick's ideas on the nature of work roles and the implications for organisational theory.

Signaling intelligence, management history, marry-go-round, and research

Shawn M. Carraher