Journal of Management History: Volume 26 Issue 2

King Frederick the Great – Anti-Machiavellian and Servant Leader?

Jan G. Langhof, Stefan Güldenberg

This study aims to include two major objectives. Firstly, Frederick’s leadership is explored and characterized. Secondly, it is examined as to why a leader may (or may not) adopt…

Reassessing Elton Mayo: clarifying contradictions and context

Jeff Muldoon, Joshua Bendickson, Antonina Bauman, Eric W. Liguori

Elton Mayo was a professor at a prestigious university, but not a researcher; a scholar, but more concerned with executives; a capitalist, but someone who downplayed monetary…

A breakthrough in business management (Roman private share company as radical novelty)

Armen E. Petrosyan

This paper aims to retrace the genesis of private share company in Ancient Rome as one of the greatest innovation in the history of management.

Leadership lessons from the Titanic and Concordia disasters

Matthew David Marko, Lorene G. Gilman, Senthilkumar Vasulingam, Matthew Miliskievic, Chester S. Spell

This paper aims to investigate two famous disasters at sea, the Titanic and the Concordia, separated by 100 years, based on a comparison and analysis of those historical events…

How do government policies influence the governance paradigm of Australian public universities?: An historical analysis

Joe Christopher, Sarath Ukwatte, Prem Yapa

This study aims to examine how government policies have influenced the governance paradigm of Australian public universities from a historical perspective. In doing so, it…

Accounting for family and business overlaps

Martin Quinn, Martin Hiebl, Romilda Mazzotta, Stefania Veltri

This paper aims to draw on a family business perspective to explore the historic accounting records of an Italian liquorice juice business. The applicability of the three-circle…

Teaching business as business: The role of the case method in the constitution of management as a science-based profession

Alberto Lusoli

This paper aims to explore the early days of business education with the aim of understanding how the Harvard Business School (HBS) contributed to the constitution of “management”…