Journal of Management History: Volume 29 Issue 2

Editorial: Every manager, a historian

Jeff Muldoon

What management history can tell us about the postpandemic workplace, and other useful things?

Chester Spell, Katerina Bezrukova

The purpose of this paper is to show that histories of how past crises were managed can help us anticipate how today’s public health challenges will permanently change the…

30 years of psychological ownership theory: a bibliometric review and guide for management scholars

Franziska M. Renz, Richard Posthuma

This study systematically reviews the literature on psychological ownership theory since its inception 30 years ago. Psychological ownership describes why and how individuals…

Competing or coopeting? Italian banking rivalry in Egypt, 1924–1940

Enrico Berbenni, Chiara Cantù, Stefano Colombo

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the key drivers of coopetition by adopting a managerial and economic framework. A case of coopetition failure is investigated by means…

Cooperative values and the development of the credit union movement in Australia

Luisa Unda

Credit unions offer an alternative to traditional banking given their distinctive ownership structure and their goal of maximising members’ benefits. Motivated by the increased…

Keeping time: a taxonomy of temporal effects on employees at the workplace

Roshni Das

In recent years, there has been a burgeoning interest around “time” or “temporality” as a subject of study in workplace behavior at the microlevel. This research is, however, not…

Personality research in the 21st century: new developments and directions for the field

Michele N. Medina-Craven, Kathryn Ostermeier, Pratigya Sigdyal, Benjamin David McLarty

The purpose of this study is to systematically examine and classify the multitude of personality traits that have emerged in the literature beyond the Big Five (Five Factor Model…

Overseas management in the English East India Company: a study of the Tonkin factory (1672-1697)

Ngoc Dung Tran, Phuong Hoa Dinh, Dinh Hoang Uyen Nguyen, Van Vinh Nguyen

This paper aims to investigate “corporate governance” of the English East India Company (EIC) in the late 17th century through a case study of the Tonkin factory (1672–1697).