Journal of Management History: Volume 24 Issue 4

Photo elicitation in management history: Life course and identity work of former managers and workers of the state electricity commission of Victoria (SECV)

Mathin Biswas, Marjorie Jerrard

This paper aims to demonstrate advantages of using the photo elicitation technique from sociology, ethnography and visual anthropology to management history through reference to a…

Management without theory for the twenty-first century

Jean-Etienne Joullié

This paper analyses the origin, conceptual underpinnings and consequences of the idea of management theory. It argues that despite claims to incommensurability and except for…

Office space: Australian advertising agencies in the twentieth century

Robert Crawford

This paper aims to examine the evolution of the advertising agency and its offices in Australia over the course of the twentieth century. Historical accounts of advertising have…

Does the historical and institutional re-construction of Ghana support the transfer of HRM practices?

Desmond Tutu Ayentimi, John Burgess, Kantha Dayaram

This study aims to investigate whether the historical and institutional re-construction of Ghana support the transfer of human resource management (HRM) practices and if so, what…

From Manhattan to Tenochtitlán: identifying ethical commercial norms

Jason Good, Paloma Vargas Montes, Bryan W. Husted, Blanca López de Mariscal

This paper aims to examine the sixteenth-century Nahua society of central Mexico to answer the question, what commercial ethical norms operated in the sixteenth-century Nahua…

Woodward’s aegis: a critical biography of Joan Woodward

Caroyln Garrity, Eric W. Liguori, Jeff Muldoon

This paper aims to offer a critical biography of Joan Woodward, often considered the founder of contingency theory. This paper examines Woodward’s background to develop a more…