Pub Date : 2019-10-02DOI: 10.1080/17449359.2019.1702886
Sverre Flaatten
ABSTRACT This article examines the relationship between law and business, and the connection between criminal law and civil law in controlling economic transgressions. In the late 19th century, governments all over Europe sought to establish new legislation regulating the economy. This was also the case in Norway. Traditionally, this had been done through criminal law, but, as argued in this paper, a new understanding of the economy as a system marked by its own logic moved the control of business transgressions away from criminal law. Instead, civil law regulations became the preferred means of control. In effect, this implied a decriminalization of norm violations in the business community. Through this, the symbolic power of law contributed to a changed view of business morals: economic action was no longer to be understood solely through notions of guilt and personal responsibility.
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Pub Date : 2019-10-02DOI: 10.1080/17449359.2019.1702885
Samuel Klebaner, Sigfrido M. Ramírez Pérez
ABSTRACT In this paper, we analyze how public regulators and regulated businesses interpreted and influenced legal change implying technological shift. Based on the economics literature on technical change and legal history literature, we provide a constructivist and systematic framework to analyze law as mediation between regulators and firms’ respective behaviors. The analyzed historical case deals with the attempt of automobile multinationals to shape the European Economic Community vehicle emissions regulations. It focuses on the German fiscal policy to promote the sale of the so-called Clean Cars during the mid-1980s. We concluded that the regulation proposed by European Commission in the field of competition and environmental protection law successfully solved the clash between legitimate goals around emissions regulations. It covers implication in terms of normative order; political objectives coherency; firms’ profit strategies and relationships between firms and regulators through European trade associations. We find that the key factor of the firms’ positions to the law lies in information exchanged with political institutions, whose legal regulation acts as a signal integrated into the long-term firms’ strategies.
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Pub Date : 2019-09-11DOI: 10.1080/17449359.2019.1659822
Franz Hederer
ABSTRACT The paper analyzes the role of the Reich Economic Council (Reichswirtschaftsrat, RWR) in Weimar Germany and intends to highlight its ambiguous position between organized interests, political loyalties, public expectations and economic needs. In contrast to the prevailing historiographical narrative of the RWR’s insignificance, the paper argues for a closer look at its practice in economic policy to gain deeper insight into its role within the political system. Referring to the heated public debates on consumer policy and cartels in the late 1920s, the findings indicate that the RWR formed a platform for economic actors at the intersection of state and economy to influence or even pre-formulate economic policy within the protected sphere of an institutionalized 'back-room', and beyond party politics. But on the other hand, the refusal of taking sides in political controversies may have triggered the RWR's successive marginalization in the early 1930s. Thus, the RWR’s ambiguous position mirrors the contested and undecided nature of economic order in the 1920s, and therefore allows us to see behind the curtain of the complex relations between economy, politics and state in Weimar Germany.
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Pub Date : 2019-08-27DOI: 10.1080/17449359.2019.1659823
Takashi Shimizu
ABSTRACT This study investigates how people recognize and use organizational forms in the process of economic development. In order to do this, I will focus on the recognition and use of the corporate form as well as the private limited liability company (PLLC) form in Japan after World War II (WWII). Before WWII, the corporate form was considered as an instrument for big businesses, while the PLLC was for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). After WWII, however, many SMEs started to use the corporate form, even though they could not fulfill all the legal obligations. Even though this situation was criticized as ‘abusive’ use of the corporate form, SMEs continued to use it, but the extent to which they preferred it to the PLLC form has changed over time. By referring to discussions of legal scholars as well as statistical data, I found that several different factors affected this phenomenon: the trustworthiness of corporations, the cost of using the corporate form, and its usefulness for the modernization of management.
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Pub Date : 2019-08-01DOI: 10.1080/17449359.2021.1877558
Segrestin Blanche, A. Hatchuel, K. Starkey
ABSTRACT Can value allocation be left to managerial discretion and does corporate law provide the basis for a balanced stakeholder management and a fair allocation of results? This question is central in an age of inequality. We argue that it can be reappraised by building upon the case of maritime law. Whereas in corporate law, the board is in charge of allocating the results, maritime law stipulates a clear ex ante rule according to which it allows a captain to sacrifice some goods to save the ship. This historical ‘rule of general averages’ emerged in Antiquity. It compels the interested parties to jointly bear costs. This rule makes visible what we call a ‘partnering effect’ of managerial authority and suggests that corporate law, as it currently stands, lacks a conceptualization of the impacts of managerial discretion and therefore limits the possibility of a fair allocation of results. While management scholars have sought to rethink management theory with a ‘view from law’, we conclude that law could also be discussed with a view from management history.
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Pub Date : 2019-07-03DOI: 10.1080/17449359.2019.1698439
E. Barratt
ABSTRACT This discussion addresses the history of bureaucratic frank counsel in the British Civil Service, exploring the possibilities and limitations of concepts associated with the later Foucault for its analysis. Foucault makes clear in his lectures that the notion of parrhesia has a long and varied history. This discussion considers a particular trajectory of this ancient idea: the practice of frank counsel in the context of the ethics of the Civil Service in Britain, focusing on the years of Conservative government in the 1980s. We begin by clarifying the interconnection between the practice of bureaucratic frank counsel in Britain and the concept of parrhesia. We are, however, primarily concerned to examine the fate of ‘bureaucratic frank counsel’. Foucauldian scholars of governmentality have been concerned to highlight how ethical attributes of enterprise and responsiveness have displaced the customary ethics of public service. The implication is that the frank counsel of public servants has been silenced. Revisiting the era in which the advanced liberal government of the Civil Service first took shape, we question this view. We explore the emergence of the idea of formal codification as a common aspiration for the defense of customary ethical practices. We conclude by arguing that a deep ambivalence now characterizes this domain of ethical practice.
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Pub Date : 2019-07-03DOI: 10.1080/17449359.2019.1698438
Pedro Silva, A. Moreira
ABSTRACT This article deals with the topic of divestment. In the early 1990s, the Portuguese electrical and electronics industry (EEI) attracted high levels of foreign direct investment. This increase in capital flows played an important role in Portugal’s economic development. However, after a period of growth and expansion, divestments became more common and the Portuguese government had to work hard to retain the existing investments. This study adopts a qualitative and historical approach to examine how economic and social changes impacted divestments in the EEI between 1975 and 2015, contributing to develop extant theories on divestment. The article helps to understand what happened to the Portuguese manufacturing industry and to the EEI in particular, providing valuable lessons on international divestments and production relocations.
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Pub Date : 2019-07-03DOI: 10.1080/17449359.2019.1683039
M. Abbott
ABSTRACT This article provides a comparative study of the steel industry in Canada, Australia and South Africa in the first half of the twentieth century, in order to determine what key elements existed in these settler states that ensured the successful foundation of an industry seen as a symbols of industrial and national development. Although there is considerable literature containing comparisons of the overall long-term economic development of these settler nations, these comparisons are broad in approach, rather than focusing on the organizational structure and management of individual industries. The study finds that a combination of factors were in ensuring this success important including the development of local markets for steel, financial market development, public policy attitudes and natural resource availability. In doing so it finds that the three industries were similar in that they all had an abundance of raw materials, growing markets for steel and access to British and American capital markets and technical expertise.
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Pub Date : 2019-07-03DOI: 10.1080/17449359.2019.1683038
Victoria Barnes, L. Newton
ABSTRACT This article undertakes an analysis of the symbolism present in the architecture and design in nineteenth century British banking. It focuses upon the headquarters of National Provincial Bank of England, which was built in the 1860s. It explores the symbols and messages that those at the bank wished to communicate to those that viewed the building. The analysis finds that those at the bank impressed its national identity, achieved through its extensive branch network, as its key message which differentiated it from its rivals. Other symbols emphasized that it had adapted to the local market and was equal in terms of competency and richness in comparison to its competitors. We argue that these messages became part of the organization’s identity and its brand, as well as the culture of the City of London more broadly. The article provides a new explanation for symbolic meanings represented by bank architecture. It integrates the existing discussion of bank architecture in historical research with the theoretical frameworks and literature being developed in organizational identity and branding.
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Pub Date : 2019-04-03DOI: 10.1080/17449359.2019.1598436
K. Williams, A. Mills
ABSTRACT Through an examination of management textbooks, beginning in 1950 and continuing to 2012, the authors chart the socio-political and historical context upon which the management texts were written and tease out the ways that women have been socially constructed as a problem to be managed. The study explores how the problem with women arose and how it has been maintained in organizational settings. The study undertakes a feminist interrogation to understand the systematic ways that roles and identities for women have been structured to both describe women negatively, limit and exclude them, and why such structures are durable. Additionally, the article asserts that the subtle shift from women as problem (collective), to a woman manager (as individual, as exceptional) and women as either the same or different from men, serves to blind us to the possibility of female governance.
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