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The management discourse: collective or strategic performance drive?
Grietjie VerhoefThe purpose of this paper is to engage with the discourse on the assumed existence of an distinct “African management” model. It critically deconstructs the concepts and submits…
Cultural learning process: lesson from microhistory
Tianyuan Yu, Albert J. MillsThe purpose of this paper is to examine the cultural learning process (namely, the development, practice and enhancement of cultural intelligence (CQ)) of a successful…
The lepers, lunatics, the lame, the blind, the infirm and the making of asylums and benevolent charities: the Indian merchant class and disability in colonial India
Sanjukta Choudhury Kaul, Manjit Singh Sandhu, Quamrul AlamThis study aims to explore the role of the Indian merchant class in 19th-century colonial India in addressing the social concerns of disability. Specifically, it addresses why and…
Making a hybrid out of a crisis: historical contingency and the institutional logics of London’s public transport monopoly
James Fowler, Alex GillettLiterature seldom admits the importance of historical contingency and politics in the creation of hybrid organisations. Nevertheless, the circumstances of their creation play a…
Debunking Ford’s relation to the past: history as “Bunk” in Emersonian perspective
Peter WattThis paper aims to reconsider the significance of Henry Ford’s claim that “History is more or less bunk”. It argues that this seemingly philistine remark can be understood as a…
Whom to serve? Exploring the moral dimension of servant leadership: answers from operation Valkyrie
Jan G. Langhof, Stefan GueldenbergThe article aims at examining the ethical limits and risks of servant leadership. During the Second World War, the German army officer Colonel Claus von Stauffenberg is a loyal…
The germ of capitalism (Roman business through slave as the primordium of private enterprise). Part II. A counterpart of corporation
Armen E. PetrosyanThis paper aims to expose the nature, pattern and mechanism of Roman private enterprise as the rudimentary form of capitalistic business. In the second part, it is shown why and…
ISSN:
1751-1348Online date, start – end:
2006Copyright Holder:
Emerald Publishing LimitedOpen Access:
hybridEditors:
- Bradley Bowden
- Jeffrey Muldoon