Pub Date : 2024-02-25DOI: 10.1080/17449359.2024.2315248
Teresa Mateo López-Mora, Águeda Gil-López, Elena San Román López, Alicia Sierra Gómez
This study explores how networks for entrepreneurial activities evolve and change during an institutional transition at the macro level. For this purpose, we present the historical case study of Me...
本研究探讨了在宏观层面的制度转型期间，创业活动网络是如何发展和变化的。为此，我们介绍了 Me...
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Pub Date : 2024-01-17DOI: 10.1080/17449359.2024.2304611
Niels Åkerstrøm Andersen, Mads Mordhorst
Management and organizational history has devoted relatively little attention to what constitutes ‘data’, hindering potentially productive discussions between diverse research programs. This articl...
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Pub Date : 2023-11-15DOI: 10.1080/17449359.2023.2279766
Epaminondas Epaminonda
ABSTRACTThis paper analyzes institutional change during the British colonial period (1878–1960) and briefly after independence in Cyprus and discusses different types of institutional transformations and the features of resulting institutions and the likely effects on organizations. By doing this, it aims to contribute to management and organization studies by adopting the view that institutionalization is an inherently historical process and may be better understood through historical analysis. The institutions considered are the legal system, education and industrial relations. Findings suggest that incremental processes of change led to both evolutionary and radical changes in institutions and that the type of institutional transformations included replacement, displacement and layering. Resulting institutions at the end of the colonial period are characterized by uniformity, bipolarism and diversity, and these features offer more ‘socioeconomic space’ for organizations to function in. Similar shifts in respective institutions are expected in other ex-colonies, and these institutional features are likely to differentiate, it is argued, ex-colonies from socioeconomically similar countries that did not go through colonial rule.KEYWORDS: Institutionsinstitutional changeBritishcolonialismCyprus Disclosure statementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).Notes1. Data are from the area of the Republic of Cyprus under government control.Additional informationNotes on contributorsEpaminondas EpaminondaEpaminondas Epaminonda is an Associate Professor in the Department of Management of the Business School of the University of Nicosia. His research interests are in the areas of comparative management, economic organization and institutional change. He holds BA and MA degrees from the University of Cambridge, an MBA from Imperial College and a PhD from Manchester Business School.
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Pub Date : 2023-10-04DOI: 10.1080/17449359.2023.2259878
Lídia Oliveira, Ana Caria, Helena Costa Oliveira, Janaína Almeida
ABSTRACTThis paper focuses on the management of Brazilian participation in the 1970 FIFA World Cup in Mexico. It analyzes discourses in the press to critically discuss how power relations were combined in the construction of a consensus around the participation in the 1970 Cup, drawing on concepts of symbolic forms, power and ideology. This cup motivated a series of dramatizations of the social world, revealing relationships, values and ideologies in force and latent. Strategies of symbolic construction made use of football (as a symbol of unity, identity and collective identification) and of traditional management tools such as accounting and calculative practices to rationalize discourses and legitimate power relations. Through a holistic approach, the study contributes to understand the use of football by dominant groups in shaping society. In the economic and financial dimension, the paper also provides insights into the constitutive role of accounting by showing its contribution to establish and sustain relations of domination, and into its interlinkages with a broader popular phenomenon – football.KEYWORDS: FootballBrazilpowerideologyWorld Cup Disclosure statementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the authors.Data availability statementThe data that support the findings of this study are available on the websites of the National Digital Library of Brazil, at the link Hemeroteca Digital at https://memoria.bn.br/hdb/periodico.aspx, O Globo (Acervo) at https://oglobo.globo.com/acervo/, and Estadão (Acervo) at the https://www.estadao.com.br/acervo/.Notes1. The World Cups of 1958 and 1962 were won in a democratic context, before the military dictatorship.2. This paper builds on a broad understanding of accounting (e.g. Burchell et al. Citation1980; Carnegie, Parker, and Tsahuridu Citation2021; Hopwood Citation1994) that embraces the social and organizational context and recognizes that accounting is not only a technical practice used to report on economic activities but also a social, moral and political one. While the technical practice of accounting (the measuring, recording, summarizing and communication of information for decision-making) is important, a broader understanding of accounting goes far beyond and provides answers to the following questions: ‘what does accounting do?’, ‘what are the impacts of accounting in the world?’ and, ‘what should accounting do (or not do)?’ (see Carnegie, Parker, and Tsahuridu Citation2021). Accordingly, this implies considering that accounting has a ‘productive force’ (Miller and Power Citation2013, 558), with the capacity to intervene and impact human behavior in organizational and public life (Burchell et al. Citation1980; Hopwood Citation1994).3. This magazine is available at: https://books.google.pt/books?id=id8N64KzeLEC&hl=pt-PT&source=gbs_all_issues_r&cad=14. Brazilian football was governed by the CBD, the National Sports Confederation, founded in the 1910s. In 1941, through the issue
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Pub Date : 2023-09-24DOI: 10.1080/17449359.2023.2259885
Carlos Larrinaga
ABSTRACTThe objective of this article is to study the origin and consolidation of the hotel industry in the city of San Sebastián, the tourism capital of Spain between the last third of the nineteenth century and the beginning of the twentieth century. During these years, modern tourism was born and a Spanish tourism system took shape. Thanks to the presence of the royal family and the so-called elite tourism, San Sebastián played a decisive role in the Spanish tourism panorama. Specifically, the evolution of the tourism industry is studied alongside the evolution of the tourism development experienced in this period. Therefore the evolution of the demand (number of visitors) and of the supply (number of establishments) are both contemplated.KEYWORDS: Hotel industryhotel businesstourist businesstourismSan SebastiánSpain Disclosure statementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author.Additional informationFundingPID2021-122476NB-I00 research project, financed by MCIN/AEI/10.13039/501100011033/ and the FEDER/ERDF Una manera de hacer Europa/A way of making Europe.Notes on contributorsCarlos LarrinagaCarlos Larrinaga is Reader in Economic History at the University of Granada (Spain). His research is in the history of tourism, railways in the 19th century and the service sector. He is currently leading an interdisciplinary project on the history of tourism in Spain and Italy in the first third of the twentieth century, funded by the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation and the European Regional Development Fund. He has undertaken research in several stays at Bordeaux-Montaigne University and at Aberystwyth University. Email: larrinag67@hotmail.com; clarrinaga@ugr.es
摘要本文旨在研究19世纪后30年至20世纪初西班牙旅游之都圣Sebastián市酒店业的起源与整合。在这几年里，现代旅游业诞生了，西班牙的旅游体系初步形成。由于王室的存在和所谓的精英旅游，圣Sebastián在西班牙旅游全景中发挥了决定性的作用。具体来说，是结合这一时期旅游发展的演变来研究旅游业的演变。因此，需求(游客数量)和供应(设施数量)的演变都是考虑的。关键词:酒店业酒店业商务人士商务人士san SebastiánSpain披露声明作者未报告潜在的利益冲突。项目资助:pid2021 - 122476nm - i00研究项目，由MCIN/AEI/10.13039/501100011033/和FEDER/ERDF Una manera de hacer Europa/A way of making Europe资助。作者简介:carlos Larrinaga，西班牙格拉纳达大学经济史专业读者。他的研究领域包括旅游业、19世纪铁路和服务业的历史。他目前正在领导一个跨学科项目，研究二十世纪前三十年西班牙和意大利的旅游业历史，该项目由西班牙科学与创新部和欧洲区域发展基金资助。他曾多次在波尔多蒙田大学和阿伯里斯特威斯大学进行研究。电子邮件:larrinag67@hotmail.com;clarrinaga@ugr.es
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Pub Date : 2023-04-03DOI: 10.1080/17449359.2023.2234344
J. Muldoon, Anthony M. Gould, Jean‐Etienne Joullié
ABSTRACT Mainstream as well as critical management history literature typically establishes theorists as the most consequential protagonists in the process that created the default blueprint for employee superintendence. Accordingly, in the wake of the Industrial Revolution, the new capitalists and their agents (the emerging management class), were theoretically ill-equipped to oversee large scale productive transformation. Hence, they turned to experts, mostly scholars who straddled the worlds of academia and the nascent enterprise of industrial consulting. In this version of events, employees are represented in strawman terms, as either passive or predictable; in either case, as hostile but unsophisticated actors. This article presents and defends an alternative portrayal. It argues that management thought was not born of purely theoretical perspectives but, rather, is the product of a contest between theory and what employees, acting as intellectual equals, revealed to employers and pundits when theories were being applied.
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Pub Date : 2023-04-03DOI: 10.1080/17449359.2023.2238678
Gry Espedal
ABSTRACT How is a values-based legacy worked on in organizations to influence organizational members’ practices to bring forward the organizational purpose? Earlier studies have highlighted the process of remembering the organization’s motto as a way of recontextualizing the past, as well as the leaders’ role in recalling values. In analyzing both pioneers and contemporary leaders of a 150-year-old values-based nonprofit healthcare organization, this study find that the pioneers’ ideals, values, purposes, and intentions are remembered in contemporary leaders’ work of maintaining and bringing forward the values-based legacy. The work is based on the four micro-processes of openness, anchoring the practice in history, realization of values, and relational practices. The micro-processes are enhanced by mechanisms such as religious and historical inspiration, processes of expectation and interpretation, as well as enacting compassion and quality through relational work. The work of remembering institutional values has established a moral awareness and ethical sensitivity in the organization toward the maintenance of the mission of reaching out to marginalized groups of patients.
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Pub Date : 2023-03-14DOI: 10.1080/17449359.2023.2187420
B. Frey, M. Lecić
ABSTRACT This research is a case study that explores and compares two Croatian corruption scandals, the Agrokombinat scandal from the 1970s, and the Agrokor scandal from the 2010s. These two companies are linked to one another: Agrokombinat served as a model for Agrokor, and the main protagonists of the two scandals, the two top managers of the companies, were father and son. The research aims to answer the following: what differences and similarities can be observed in the alleged abuses committed by the two managers and in their relations to the political elites? Can we identify patterns of path dependence on the example of two related companies? We aim to answer these questions by analyzing both archival sources of internal Communist Party documents, from the Croatian State Archive, and the public corruption narrativizations of the scandals from the media. More generally, we also aim to show the importance of learning the lessons from (business) history when operating in societies afflicted by political instability and informal practices.
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Pub Date : 2023-02-03DOI: 10.1080/17449359.2023.2167831
H. Moasa, M. Cunha, S. Clegg, D. Sorea
ABSTRACT Leadership studies focus on processes of leader romanticization to explain the attribution of charisma and account for leaders’ personal power. Such research focuses on antecedents to leadership, stressing factors such as personal projections of dispositions, the specificity of context and situation or the leaders’ capacity for image management. These processes, important as they are, do not fully identify and articulate the inner workings of the processes whereby leaders and leadership are romanticized. We offer a view of leader romanticization as a complex and dynamic historical process in which active followers, according to their current identity projects, agendas and goals, continuously use embedded contextual cues to make sense of leaders while giving sense to leaders and other followers in historical cycles of sensemaking and sensegiving that unfold through temporal processes. Historically, this is how ‘great leaders’ are produced as lionized national exemplars able to be romanticized, demonized and fictionalized, sometimes simultaneously. We answer the question of ‘how leaders become romanticized as historical points of reference’? We do so through a historical analysis of how Vlad Dracula, the historical voivode, metamorphosed into the famous fictional vampire and a bulwark of a communist regime.
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Pub Date : 2023-01-02DOI: 10.1080/17449359.2023.2187032
R. Wadhwani, Anders R. Sørensen
ABSTRACT We explicate the value and practices of ‘serious play’ in historical and organizational research. In particular, we draw on the philosophy of Charles Peirce to consider why and how playful methods are effective for abductive inference. Introducing the papers in this special issue, we highlight four playful practices: (a) creating and categorizing new sources, (b) seeing a new, (c) sensing connections, and (d) entertaining new representations. We discuss how each of these practices contribute to the generation of new hypotheses. Finally, we conclude by highlighting research and methodological practices with the aim of cultivating a more playful future.
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