“In the twentieth century, it is no exaggeration to say that planning has displaced liberty as the key slogan of socialism.” (Rutland, p.9). Whilst qualifications may be offered…
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“In the twentieth century, it is no exaggeration to say that planning has displaced liberty as the key slogan of socialism.” (Rutland, p.9). Whilst qualifications may be offered to this statement, its broad correctness is the starting point for both these otherwise very different books. Both are concerned with evaluating the relevance and desirability of planning to the politics and economics of Western European, and especially British, society in the late twentieth century. However, beyond that common starting point their approaches are very different.
The aim of this paper is to construct a systematic way of thinking about correspondence as a documentary form and discuss the role its persistent representation features play in…
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Purpose
The aim of this paper is to construct a systematic way of thinking about correspondence as a documentary form and discuss the role its persistent representation features play in management, preservation and access of email correspondence.
Design/methodology/approach
Using the method of diplomatic analysis as a guiding theory, the paper conducts a historical review of correspondence recordkeeping and email systems in the American context, analyzes the evolution of its persistent representation features and discusses the implications on current email management and archival practices.
Findings
Correspondence as a document form and its persistent representation features have played an important role in traditional correspondence recordkeeping and electronic mail management. The design of systems to manage, preserve and access email records should reflect the characteristics and functionality of email records, capable of retaining email correspondence as a documentary form supported by its persistent representation features.
Research limitations/implications
The research in this paper mostly covers secondary sources with a regional focus. The analysis covers important historical developments in correspondence and email recordkeeping and archival practices. The study uses examples of email archives available online, and further research can be developed when more email archival collections are processed and constructed.
Originality/value
A systematic analysis of persistent representation of traditional correspondence and electronic mail provides a useful perspective to reflect on the characteristics of correspondence as a document form and offers some food for thought for records management and archival professionals and assists them in developing systems to better manage, preserve and provide access to email correspondence.
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Financial performance measures of State‐owned enterprise in China have assumed a more diverse role as a result of reform programmes which have introduced greater degrees of…
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Financial performance measures of State‐owned enterprise in China have assumed a more diverse role as a result of reform programmes which have introduced greater degrees of operating management autonomy, market responsibility and profit sharing incentives at the enterprise level. This paper reviews the changing role of accounting performance criteria in meeting the needs of operating managers of State enterprise who have an increased decision‐making autonomy, while also maintaining the needs of government bureaus for financial performance criteria related to economic planning and control at the regional and national levels. Using a case study of a State‐owned department store in Guangzhou, an assessment is made of the conceptual and practical difficulties facing China's policy‐makers in setting accounting ratio performance indicators for State commercial enterprises. An alternative set of primary financial performance indicators for such enterprises is constructed by considering approaches adopted in other socialist countries.
The purpose of this paper is to reflect back over his career as a management and business historian so far as to consider opportunities for the future of management and business…
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Purpose
The purpose of this paper is to reflect back over his career as a management and business historian so far as to consider opportunities for the future of management and business history as a disciplinary area.
Design/methodology/approach
The paper consists of two segments – the first half is an auto-ethnographic personal reflection looking at the author’s research journey and how the discipline as experienced by the author has evolved over that time. The second half is a prescriptive look forward to consider how we should leverage the strengths as historians to progress the discipline forward.
Findings
The paper demonstrates opportunities for management and business history to encompass new agendas including the expansion of the topic into teaching, the possibility for the advancement of empirical contributions and opportunities for findings in new research areas, including the global south and public and project management history.
Originality/value
The paper demonstrates that historians should be more confident in the disciplinary capabilities, particularly their understandings of historic context, continuity, change and chronologies when making empirical and theoretical contributions.
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This article highlights the role of social studies educators in promoting democratic ideals and social action. The benefits of incorporating children’s and young adult literature…
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This article highlights the role of social studies educators in promoting democratic ideals and social action. The benefits of incorporating children’s and young adult literature into the social studies curriculum in the elementary and middle school grades are discussed. Biography, historical fiction, poetry, and information books are presented to teach students about the civil rights movement and school integration. Literature extension activities are designed to encourage students to examine issues of equality, social justice, and human dignity, while also considering their own prejudices and perspectives on social action.
This paper aims at analyzing salient cultural transformations and their implications for business and management.
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Purpose
This paper aims at analyzing salient cultural transformations and their implications for business and management.
Design/methodology/approach
First, the interpretative approach is explained, and its adoption is justified. Then, seven major cultural transformations associated with globalization are identified and analyzed. Finally, business and management implications are discussed.
Findings
The cultural trends/transformations caused by or associated with globalization include convergence, divergence, hybridization, the clash of cultures/civilizations, diversity, multiculturalism, time-space compression, temporal acceleration, short-termism, risk, insecurity and uncertainty.
Research limitations/implications
This study, like any other interpretative study, is limited in its internal validity. Furthermore, some scholars may have different perspectives on cultural transformations, such as clash of cultures, diversity, multiculturalism and risk society.
Originality/value
At the methodological level, this paper adopts an interpretative research design and takes into consideration historical, contextual and social components of culture. While the culture in management is often conceptualized as bipolar and mutually exclusive dimensions, this study offers a more versatile conceptualization of culture.