Journal of Management History: Volume 23 Issue 4

Editorial

Bradley Bowden

The changing relation between CEOs and shareholders: A case study on Royal Philips NV, 1971-2001

Abe de Jong, Marieke van der Poel, Michiel Wolfswinkel

This paper aims to present case study evidence on the changes in the relations between chief executive officers (CEOs) of large firms and shareholders in the past three decades of…

Profit or utility maximizing? Strategy, tactics and the Municipal Tramways of York, c. 1918-1935

Kevin D. Tennent

This paper aims to contest Mees’ (2010) theory that publicly owned public transport operators normatively target their resources to maximize service rather than profit. Mees…

From corner store to superstore: a historical analysis of Sainsbury’s co-evolution

Olu Aluko, Helen Knight

The purpose of this study is to explore the conceptualisation of co-evolution using a corporate history research approach. While the application of the co-evolutionary perspective…

“In spite of everything?” Female entrepreneurship from a historical perspective: The Italian businesswoman Luisa Spagnoli (1877-1935)

Francesca Picciaia

This paper provides a historical case study, through the analysis of Luisa Spagnoli’s entrepreneurial life. Luisa Spagnoli was one of the most famous Italian businesswomen of the…

Management as an integrating activity: A comparative textual analysis of the work of Mary Parker Follett and Oliver Sheldon

Sébastien Damart, Sonia Adam-Ledunois

This research aims to compare the contributions of two authors and practitioners from the 1920s whose work was, to a certain extent, at odds with the dominant scientific…

From the industrial revolution to Trump: Six periods of changing perceptions of American business managers

Anthony M. Gould, Michael J. Bourk, Jean-Etienne Joullié

This paper takes a long-term view of how the US public and private sectors have been viewed in relation to each other. It notes that since the time of approximately the Nixon…

Creating an interface: Aiding entrepreneurial success via critical pedagogy and insights from African-American management history

Leon C. Prieto, Simone T.A. Phipps, John K. Osiri, John F. LeCounte

This paper, via the use of management and entrepreneurial philosophies from Charles Clinton Spaulding, aims to advocate the integration of African-American Entrepreneurship and…