Journal of Management History: Volume 24 Issue 1

Editorial

Bradley Bowden

Labor at the Taylor Society: Scientific management and a proactive approach to increase diversity for effective problem solving

Hindy Lauer Schachter

The purpose of this paper is to add information on which voices contributed to the scientific management narrative from Frederick Taylor’s 1915 death to the early 1930s with a…

Carbon copy: The mock bureaucratic setting of colliery explosions in early twentieth century Britain and at Pike River, New Zealand

James Reveley, John Singleton

By juxtaposing fatal colliery explosions in early twentieth-century Britain and in 2010 at Pike River, New Zealand, this paper aims to investigate the generalizability of the mock…

The business of black beauty: social entrepreneurship or social injustice?

Simone T.A. Phipps, Leon C. Prieto

This paper aims to examine the black beauty industry from a historical perspective and consider the fairness heuristic theory to determine if organisations in this industry are…

Revisiting perspectives on George Homans: correcting misconceptions

Jeff Muldoon, Eric W. Liguori, Josh Bendickson, Antonina Bauman

This paper aims to correct some misconceptions about George Homans. Specifically, it clarifies the relationship between Homans and Malinowski, explains why Homans is rightfully…

Moving “The Greatest Show on Earth”: W.C. Coup as an innovation champion

Keenan D. Yoho, Robert Ford, Bo Edvardsson, Fred Dahlinger

This research aims to provide a historical example of how an innovation champion radically changed the operations of the circus industry by incorporating both the rational and…

Social enterprise in Antebellum America: the case of Nashoba (1824-1829)

Patrick J. Murphy, Jack Smothers, Milorad M. Novicevic, John H. Humphreys, Foster B. Roberts, Artem Kornetskyy

This paper examines the case of Nashoba, a Tennessee-based social enterprise founded in 1824 by Scottish immigrant Frances Wright. The Nashoba venture intended to diminish the…