Journal of Management History: Volume 28 Issue 4

Guest editorial: the early adolescence of entrepreneurship research

Jeff Muldoon, Raj V. Mahto, Eric W. Liguori

The prehistoric entrepreneur: rethinking the definition

Derek Balfour Lidow

This paper aims to derive a time and place invariant definition of entrepreneurship necessary for the identification of prehistoric entrepreneurial behavior.

Race, class, gender and social entrepreneurship: extending the positionality of icons

Hindy Lauer Schachter

This paper aims to add information on how women's voices enriched American social entrepreneurship in the Progressive era. While most discussions of women as social entrepreneurs…

A foreigner in a foreign country: examining biography and memoirs of Georg Mayer through reflexive agency

Oya Zincir

This paper is concerned with the concept of reflexive agency through the biography and memoirs of Georg Mayer, a Jewish businessman who immigrated to Turkey before 1945 and lived…

Harmonious entrepreneurship: evolution from wealth creation to sustainable development

David Anthony Kirby, Iman El-Kaffass, Felicity Healey-Benson

The purpose of this research is to examine the evolution of entrepreneurship, explain the reasons for why it is not contributing significantly to the global sustainability…

Norwegian entrepreneurs (1880s-1930s) and their “new America”: a historical perspective on transnational entrepreneurship and ecosystem development in the Russian Arctic

Irina Nikolskaja Roddvik, Birgit Leick, Viktor Roddvik

This paper aims to present a historical case study of Norwegian transnational entrepreneurs (1880s–1930s) and the ecosystems that they founded in Russia’s Arctic periphery…