Journal of Management History: Volume 25 Issue 2

Editorial

Bradley Bowden

The separation of directors and managers: A historical examination of the status of managers

Blanche Segrestin, Andrew Johnston, Armand Hatchuel

The purpose of this paper is to contrast the historical rise of the managerial function and its reception in law. It thus contributes to the debates on the separation of ownership…

Taking Britain from darkness into light: The social construction of the “professional businessman” during World War I

Sandra Van Der Laan, Lee Moerman, David Campbell

This paper aims to contribute to an understanding of the process of the construction of the professional businessman in Britain in the early twentieth century.

Reading “Canadian” management in context: development of English and French education

Rene Arseneault, Nicholous M. Deal, Albert J. Mills

The purpose of this paper is to explore the pluralist contours of Canadian management “knowledge” using the discourse “official” bilingualism – the English and French languages �…

The narrative cleansing of Andrew Carnegie: entrepreneurial generativity as identity capital

John H. Humphreys, Mario Joseph Hayek, Milorad M. Novicevic, Stephanie Haden, Jared Pickens

The purpose of this paper is to proffer a reconstructed theoretic model of entrepreneurial generatively that accounts for personal and social identities in the narrative…

A Colombian classic management thinker: Alejandro López Restrepo

Luis Antonio Orozco, Olga Lucía Anzola-Morales

This paper aims to present the Colombian Alejandro López Restrepo as a classic management thinker from the first half of the twentieth century and discuss his ideas in the light…

Researching the history of marginalized issues in management research: A proposed interpretive framework

Sanjukta Choudhury Kaul, Manjit Singh Sandhu, Quamrul Alam

The design and implementation of an interpretive framework to study historically marginalized issues in management is a distinct area of research. This paper aims to propose a…

Whirling in between the personal and the impersonal: The quest for the marrow of organizational goals, and the lessons to be drawn thence

Armen E. Petrosyan

The paper aims to present a systematic conceptual analysis of the problem of organizational goal and to reduce the insights into it provided by the main conceptions taken in their…