Journal of Management History: Volume 25 Issue 3

Formation of management thought in Russia and early USSR from the 1800s to the 1920s: Heroes and their creations

Vadim Marshev

During the first quarter of the twentieth century in Russia rapidly developed management thought, generated by many reasons, including socio-economic and political…

Chinese workers’ history: passive minds docile bodies

Elly Leung, Donella Caspersz

This paper aims to describe an exploratory study that has sought to understand how an institutionalised docility rather than resistance has been created in the minds of Chinese…

Achieving selves: From psychohistory to narratology in the analysis of entrepreneur life-writing

Mathew Todres, James Reveley

Arguably, how psychohistorians treat entrepreneur life-writing interiorizes the autobiographer’s self, thereby limiting the extent to which self can be accessed by researchers. By…

Leadership and the significance of formalized organizational structures: Crazy Horse vs Custer

Jan Gunter Langhof, Stefan Güldenberg

Management literature commonly suggests authoritarian leadership (AL) as the ideal leadership style during crises and extreme situations. This study aims to question this view…

The Giza pyramid: learning from this megaproject

Chris Procter, Mark Kozak-Holland

The purpose of this paper is to demonstrate the contemporary relevance of the management of the Great Pyramid of Giza project.

Social responsibility by Australian football clubs in the 1890s

Abdel Halabi

This paper aims to examine the social responsibility (SR) by Australian football clubs during the late nineteenth century. While there has been some contemporary research linking…

Reconciling the historical divide between strategy process and strategy content

Craig Randall, Eric B. Dent

Early works in strategic management described strategy process and were quickly followed by a plethora of strategy content articles focusing on tools, theories, frameworks and…