Journal of Management History: Volume 27 Issue 2

Editorial

Bradley Bowden, Jeff Muldoon

Battle for the boot: trademarks and competitiveness in the global UGG boot industry, 1979-2019

Amanda Budde-Sung

Despite its Australian birthplace, the ugg boot industry is now fully dominated by one American company, and the Australian ugg boot industry has been frozen out of global trade…

Enabling leadership: Whitney Young, Jr as dramaturgical director of the US civil rights movement

John H. Humphreys, Milorad M. Novicevic, Stephanie S. Pane Haden, Md. Kamrul Hasan

Uhl-Bien and Arena (2018) presented a persuasive argument for recognizing the concept of enabling leadership as a critical form of leadership for adaptive organizations. This…

Power relations in the production of historical context in disaster inquiry reporting

Mary A. Furey, Lawrence T. Corrigan, Jean Helms Mills

This study aims to examine the textual performance of the Ocean Ranger Disaster inquiry, thus responding to recent calls to “practice context” in historical writing. This study…

Coming together after a tragedy: how the S.S. Eastland disaster of 1915 affected welfare capitalism and helped shape the Hawthorne studies

Yaron J. Zoller, Jeff Muldoon

This paper aims to conduct a historical study using both primary (archival data) and secondary sources to evaluate the social conditions of the community of employees at Hawthorne…

The germ of capitalism (Roman business through slave as the primordium of private enterprise) Part I. Above free labor

Armen E. Petrosyan

The purpose of this paper is to expose the pattern and mechanism of Roman private enterprise as the rudimentary form of capitalistic business.

Social economy advancement: from voluntary to secure organizational commitments to public benefit

Helen M. Haugh

This paper aims to explain the development of the social economy by analyzing when, why and how the community interest company (CIC) legal structure was established in the UK. The…

Accounting for management and organizational history: strategies and conceptions

Rene Arseneault, Nicholous M. Deal, Jean Helms Mills

The purpose of this paper is to answer the question of where the course of the collective efforts in historical research on business and organizations has taken this discipline…