Table of contents - Special Issue: Chronologies, Periods and Events in Management and Business History
Guest Editors: Kevin Daniel Tennent
Deconstructing the reinvention of operations management
James M. WilsonThe purpose is to provide an intellectual history of Operations Management, particularly noting recent developments and its underlying continuity with earlier systems and…
The Free-Standing Company: a “zombie” theory of international business history?
Simon MollanThe purpose of this paper is to decompose the historical and conceptual basis of the Free-Standing Company (FSC) in international business history. This is used to critique the…
Continuity and change in the Sheffield armaments industry 1919-1930
Chris CorkerThis article aims to explore the impact of the Great War on the Sheffield armaments industry through the use of four company case studies in Thomas Firth, John Brown, Cammell…
The Thatcher government and (de)regulation: modularisation of individual personal pensions
Nicholas BurtonThe (de)regulation agenda of the Conservative government, led by Margaret Thatcher, elected in 1979 is an important change point that has attracted only limited attention from…
Urban crisis change efforts: the NAB and NUC
Laura G. SingletonThis study aims to compare the National Alliance of Businessmen and the National Urban Coalition, two change efforts spawned during the 1960’s US Urban Crisis, in which businesses…
Shadow hybridity and the institutional logic of professional sport: Perpetuating a sporting business in times of rapid social and economic change
Alex G. Gillett, Kevin D. TennentExisting studies of the finance of English Association Football (soccer) have tended to focus on the sport’s early years, or on the post-1992 Premiership era. The authors examine…
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1751-1348Online date, start – end:
2006Copyright Holder:
Emerald Publishing LimitedOpen Access:
hybridEditors:
- Bradley Bowden
- Jeffrey Muldoon