Journal of Management History: Volume 23 Issue 3

Editorial

Bradley Bowden

Towards micro-foundations of institutional change: Lessons from Douglass C. North’s sociocognitive turn

Kyle Bruce, Peter von Staden

Given managerial choices and the sociocultural context in which they are made are at the heart of management history, then an understanding of both is critical. This paper argues…

Organizational mimesis and the emergence of industry superannuation in Australia

Bernard Mees

The purpose of this paper is to analyse the emergence of organizational isomorphism in the industry superannuation sector in Australia. The largest not-for-profit private…

Governance of old religious orders: Benedictines and Dominicans

Peter Wirtz

The purpose of the present study is to tentatively contribute to paving the way for interdisciplinary research on the history of governance practices in ancient religious orders…

The influence of foreign investment on Malaysian Bumiputera technology firms: 1957-2016

Umar Haiyat Abdul Kohar, Adela J. McMurray, Konrad Peszynski

The purpose of this paper is to identify the historical influences and chronological development of foreign investors on Malaysian Bumiputera (indigenous) new technology-based…

An exploration into the relationship between management and market forces: The railroads of Australia and the American West, 1880-1900

Bradley Bowden

Are business outcomes due primarily to entrepreneurial and managerial ability or are they mainly the result of business content? The purpose of this study is to explore this…

Understanding the erosion of US competitiveness: Managed education and labor in Japanese “corporate castle towns”

Wayne Gordon Macpherson, James C. Lockhart

For the past three decades, the dominant economic policy environment across the Anglosphere has assumed that industrial performance results from increasing national…

Transitioning business school accounting from binary divide to unified national system: A historical case study

Maryam Safari, Lee David Parker

This paper aims to provide a historical case study of strategic changes in accounting at an Australian university’s business school department during 1972-1992 when it was…