Journal of Management History: Volume 21 Issue 1

The life and times of a senior scholar: an interview with Lyman Porter

Karl Moore

– This paper aims to present an interview of a senior scholar to get his perspectives on the field, its history and the future.

C. Bertrand Thompson and management consulting in Europe, 1917-1934

Daniel A. Wren, Regina A. Greenwood, Julia Teahen, Arthur G. Bedeian

This paper aims to highlight myriad accomplishments of C. Bertrand Thompson, who is perhaps most well known as a scientific-management bibliographer and a Taylor disciple, in the…

Forgotten contributions to scientific management: work and ideas of Karol Adamiecki

Bart J. Debicki

This paper aims to present the work and contributions of Karol Adamiecki in comparison with Frederick Winslow Taylor and discusses the various contexts in which both scholars…

Management lore continues alive and well in the organizational sciences

M. Ronald Buckley, John E. Baur, Jay H. Hardy, III, James F. Johnson, Genevieve Johnson, Alexandra E. MacDougall, Christopher G. Banford, Zhanna Bagdasarov, David R. Peterson, Juandre Peacock

– The purpose of this paper was to identify examples of management lore currently in the organizational sciences.

Fluid leadership in dynamic contexts: A qualitative comparative analysis of the biblical account of Nehemiah

Christopher H. Thomas, Andrew S. Hebdon, Milorad M. Novicevic, Mario J. Hayek

The purpose of this study is to examine an historical account of an effective leader who was able to draw from multiple styles of leadership, and choose a dominant style based…

Technology brokering in action: revolutionizing the skiing and tennis industries

Robert Laudone, Eric W. Liguori, Jeffrey Muldoon, Josh Bendickson

This paper aims to explore the true sources of innovation that revolutionized two sports industries – skiing and tennis, tracking the flow of ideas and power of technology…

Objectivism, Lyman Porter and ethical leadership

Shawn Carraher