
Management History
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- Cover
- Management History: Its Global Past and Present
- Management History: Its Global Past and Present
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- Introduction
- ABSTRACT
- INTRODUCTION: TRADITIONS AND PROBLEMS
- BOOK PURPOSE
- PRELIMINARY CONCLUSIONS
- REFERENCES
- 1: The Dutch East India Company: An Early Modern Optical Illusion
- ABSTRACT
- INTRODUCTION
- THE RISE AND FALL OF THE VOC
- PRIVATE TRADE IN ASIA: CONTROLLING OVERSEAS TRADE
- DIVIDENDS IN THE REPUBLIC: APPEASING "NEW" SHAREHOLDERS
- Global Shipping: Ensuring Operational Reliability
- CONCLUSION: TAKING STOCK OF MANAGERIALISM AT THE VOC
- NOTES
- REFERENCES
- 2: Blazing a Trail from Markets to Politics: Wyoming's 19th Century Cattle Kings
- ABSTRACT
- INTRODUCTION
- MARKET AND POLITICAL ENTREPRENEURSHIP: "GOOD" AND "BAD" CAPITALISM
- THE WYOMING CATTLE INDUSTRY
- Entrepreneurial Origins
- Rapid Growth/Unsustainable Economics
- THE WYOMING STOCK GROWERS ASSOCIATION
- TENSION, LYNCHINGS AND "WAR"
- ENTREPRENEURSHIP AND THE WYOMING CATTLE INDUSTRY
- NOTE
- REFERENCES
- 3: Behemoths: A Comparative Analysis of United States and Australian Railroad Management, 1870-1901
- ABSTRACT
- INTRODUCTION
- RAILROAD PROBLEMS AND DEBATES
- COMPARATIVE RAILWAY CIRCUMSTANCE
- MANAGING AUSTRALIAN AND AMERICAN RAILROADS
- THE DEBT PARADOX AND THE CURSE OF EASY FINANCE
- CONCLUSION
- NOTES
- REFERENCES
- 4: Ford's Development and Use of the Assembly Line, 1908-1927
- ABSTRACT
- INTRODUCTION
- FLEXIBLE FORDISM: VOLUME
- FLEXIBLE FORDISM: PRODUCTIVITY
- REVOLUTIONARY CHANGE
- Flexible Fordism: Product Mix
- Deskilling was the Line's Raison d'être
- Flexible Fordism: Quality Systems
- IMPLICATIONS FOR RESEARCH AND PRACTICE
- CONCLUSIONS
- REFERENCES
- 5: Peculiar Legacies: Geography, State Intervention, and the Shaping of Australian Business
- ABSTRACT
- INTRODUCTION
- FOUNDATIONS AND LEGACIES: AUSTRALIA TO 1904
- A SHELTERED ECONOMY: AUSTRALIA 1904-1983
- AUSTRALIA AND THE EPOCH OF THE PACIFIC BASIN, 1983-2015
- CONCLUSION
- REFERENCES
- 6: A Culture of Free Enterprise: Employer Management Policies in the United States Since 1970
- ABSTRACT
- INTRODUCTION
- THE POWELL MEMO AND THE DEFENSE OF THE FREE ENTERPRISE SYSTEM
- THE REAGAN YEARS
- THE RISE OF MARKET POPULISM
- THE ROLE OF TECHNOLOGY
- AMERICAN WORKERS TODAY AND IN THE FUTURE
- REFERENCES
- 7: What Happens to the Professor? Business Schools, Corporatization, and Eroding Professionalism
- INTRODUCTION
- ROOTS AND TRAJECTORY OF UNIVERSITY-BASED MANAGEMENT EDUCATION
- PROFESSIONALISM IN BUSINESS SCHOOLS
- A COMPARATIVE VIEW OF PROFESSIONALISM: FINLAND AND THE UAE
- PROFESSIONALISM IN FINNISH BUSINESS SCHOOLS
- From Commercial Colleges to Wannabe Universities (1909-WWII)
- Professionalization of Business School Faculty (WWII-1990s)
- The Peak and Decline of Professionalism? (1990s-Present)
- PROFESSIONALISM IN THE UAE BUSINESS SCHOOLS
- The University as a Vehicle for Modernization (1970-1980)
- Privatization of Higher Education and the First Signs of Professionalism (1980-2000)
- Professionalization of Systems in the Market-Led Era of Business Schools (2000-Present)
- DISCUSSION AND CONCLUSIONS
- REFERENCES
- 8: Management and Organizational History: Extending the State-of-the-Art to Historicist Interpretivism
- ABSTRACT
- INTRODUCTION
- CONCEPTUAL FOUNDATIONS
- DISCUSSION
- TOWARD HISTORICIST INTERPRETIVISM AND GENEALOGICAL METHOD
- CONCLUSION
- REFERENCES
- 9: A First Look at the First 30 Years of the First Division: The Management History Division
- ABSTRACT
- BIRTH OF THE DIVISION STRUCTURE
- BIRTH OF THE MANAGEMENT HISTORY DIVISION
- EARLY MANAGEMENT HISTORY DIVISION ACTIVITIES
- The N File Newsletter
- Remembering the First 50 Years: The Management Centennial
- The Commemorative Volume
- A Question of Management
- Honoring Contributors
- MEMBERSHIP, INNOVATION, AND IMPACT
- Membership Concerns
- Innovation
- Impact
- CONCLUDING REMARKS
- NOTES
- REFERENCES
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