Journal of Management History: Volume 28 Issue 3

Editorial

Jeff Muldoon, Bradley Bowden

Ideals-based accountability through history: the case of an Italian glass-maker’s family business

Eleonora Masiero, Giulia Leoni, Carlo Bagnoli

This paper aims at exploring the historical roots of ideals-based accountability (IBA) in a family business of the past. It examines the narrative accounts of the history of an…

The growth of unproductive labour and the new crisis of management: the case of Australia

Kaylee Boccalatte

Management history has long acknowledged the existence of unproductive labour. Despite becoming unfashionable in modern times, the growth of unproductive labour within the…

Path-dependency theory in a post-conflict state: the case of Fiji

Patricia Loga, Andrew Cardow, Andy Asquith

Violent geo-political conflicts are on the rise across the globe, particularly within fragile states. Using path-dependency theory, this paper aims to explore Fiji in the context…

State management of industrialization and social engineering in the early Turkish republic: the case of Sümerbank and its textile plants

Murat Ali Yülek, Betül Gür

This study aims to illustrate the developmental and modernizational state management policies in the early Turkish Republic in the 1930s through the establishment of state-owned…

The relevance of management research debate: a historical view, 1876–2018

Thomaz Wood, Renato Souza, Miguel P. Caldas

This paper aims to map how the debate concerning the relevance of management research historically evolved to (a) determine if B-schools and management researchers have been…

Managing the most important asset: a twenty year review on the performance management literature

Ebina Justin M.A., Manu Melwin Joy

The three objectives served by this review are to provide readers a limpid insight about the topic performance management (PM), to analyse the latest trends in PM literature and…