Pub Date : 2019-04-03DOI: 10.1080/17449359.2019.1614462
Wasino, E. Hartatik, Nawiyanto
ABSTRACT This article discusses the dynamics of the sugar industry owned by an indigenous ruler of the Mangkunegaran principality of Surakarta from the mid-19th to early 20th century in Java, Indonesia. It draws mainly upon source materials from the Mangkunegara`s collection in Indonesia and colonial archives in the Hague, Netherlands. The purposes of the article are to elaborate the development of the Mangkunegaran sugar industry, to look at how the business operated, and the strategies to run the business profitably and to deal with market fluctuations. It is argued that starting as a Javanese royal family plantation venture, the top management was on the hand of royal family aided by European managers. After the death of Mangkunegara IV, the efforts to build the economic foundations of the Mangkunegaran principality experienced a great shock. To get out safely from the crisis, a reorganization of the management of Mangkunegaran sugar industry was underway. The management was entrusted to the European superintendent at the top-level and European managers at the factory level. There was also clear financial separation between the sugar industry and the Mangkunegaran government (Praja). Interestingly, the process also involved the resident of Surakarta as representative of the Dutch colonial government.
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Pub Date : 2019-04-03DOI: 10.1080/17449359.2019.1660682
E. Šerá
ABSTRACT The article examines differentiation of the agriculture co-operative JZD Slušovice which was one of the most efficient co-operatives in the centrally planned economy in Czechoslovakia in 80s. The purpose is to explain differentiation ways of the co-operative with the case production of computers as sideline production in the mentioned period. According to Luhmann’s social system theory, the co-operative represents a social organized system differentiated from the environment defined as CZ economy. The theoretical concept decision premises including the concept the form of firm by D. Baecker are used for the analysis. The result of the analysis are decision premises specified as programs that show how a management decided on production strategy. It means distinctions between how organization self-observed and observed environment, and a way of observing, that is decision making on the strategy, differentiated the co-operative from environment. One of programs was the objective decision-making premise on what the product needs to be like to bring profit. This objective determined decision-making premises of condition programs, so decision-making on resources, which would help achieve such TNS PCs, the style of how to offer them to public so they would be accepted, and decisions on image to be created through the TNS PCs.
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Pub Date : 2019-01-02DOI: 10.1080/17449359.2018.1465825
Marke Kivijärvi, A. Mills, Jean Helms Mills
Abstract This paper centers on the role of narratives in business history from an ANTi-History perspective. We focus on the networked processes through which narratives are told of, for, and by multi-national companies embed the development of ‘new imperialism’ and coloniality. We set out to achieve this through a discussion and application of ANTi-History to a study of Pan American Airways and particularly its performance as a maturing multi-national company and its relationship to postcoloniality. In the process, we also hope to contribute to recent calls in business history for more explicit accounts of the methods used in the development of historical accounts. We are concerned to encourage ‘a narrative turn in business history’ but also to do so critically, i.e. to reveal some of the strengths and limitations of a narrative turn. We conclude with reflections on the relationship between methods and the production of (business) history.
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Pub Date : 2019-01-02DOI: 10.1080/17449359.2019.1587969
Simon Mollan
In the ongoing debates about the role that historical research can play in the development of theory and the role that theory plays in management and organization history research, historical resea...
在关于历史研究在理论发展中的作用以及理论在管理和组织历史研究中的作用的持续争论中，历史研究……
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Pub Date : 2019-01-02DOI: 10.1080/17449359.2019.1578668
Mariana I. Paludi, Jean Helms Mills, A. Mills
ABSTRACT The purpose of this paper is to introduce decolonial feminist theorizing to the field of organizational history to explore issues of historical revisionism, hierarchy, power, and coloniality. This paper is a theoretical work and uses empirical material from the archive of the company Pan American Airways (PAA) to exemplify possible interpretations when using decolonial feminist frameworks. We analyzed how representations of Latin Americans explore ideas of race, gender, and nationality? Drawing on the feminist and decolonial literature we suggest that the field of organizational history can profit from the reflexive nature of the colonial past and the possibility of thinking about the future by reflecting on the past (the mestiza way). In short, this work is a contribution to the ‘decolonial turn’, that shifts the way we produce knowledge by understanding that most social problems should be understood through consideration of the implications of modernity and coloniality. The work is part of a larger project on Pan American Airways (PAA) and the production of intersectionality – involving extensive archival research, including analysis of a range of documents such as letters between the airline’s Latin American Division (LAD) and its head office, tourist brochures, magazines, maps, as well as pictures of landscapes and people from the so-called Latin American region.
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Pub Date : 2019-01-02DOI: 10.1080/17449359.2018.1431551
Sergio Wanderley, Amon Barros
Abstract In this paper, we explore how a decolonial framework can inform management and organizational knowledge (MOK) with the objective of fostering a decolonized historic turn (HT) agenda from Latin America. MOK and the HT are demarcated by the predominance of Anglo-Saxon knowledge in which time fosters a colonizing effect. The HT has not promoted the inclusion of authors, theories, concepts, objects, and themes from other geographies. Hence, we have to make use of geopolitics of knowledge to reintroduce space and to deloconize the HT agenda. We believe that it is by exploring the (dis)encounters of the external and the internal sides of the border, in a double consciousness exercise, that we may foster a more plural field of MOK and a richer HT agenda. From this space of diverse epistemic encounter from both sides of the border, it would be possible to recognize and value what has been produced from the colonial difference, not as expressions of exoticism, but as relevant critical forms of knowledge produced and lived from the perspective of different histories and traditions. More than claims of purism, concepts of anthropophagy and sociological reduction may indicate that Latin America great virtue may be represented by its ability to adapt foreign knowledge to local reality generating something new without letting itself being catechized nor becoming a mimicry copy of the colonizer.
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Pub Date : 2019-01-02DOI: 10.1080/17449359.2019.1578669
N. Cornelius, Olusanmi C. Amujo, E. Pezet
ABSTRACT In this article, we explore employment policies and practices in Colonial Nigeria, during a period of planned development, from the late 19th to early 20th century. We consider the relationship between colonial government, commerce and development of a labour force against the working experiences and growing aspirations of many colonised locals. Our study draws on Michel Foucault's work on governmentality. We draw on an archive that comprises British government and colonial administrative reports, complimented by a range of official and unofficial documents of the period. There was a coexistence of colonial governmentality through waged labour (a non-traditional practice in precolonial Nigeria), sovereign power through localised rule by traditional leaders and slave labour) and forced labour (introduced by the British). In the Lagos area in particular there was concentration of commercial, administrative and waged employment, with Lagos also the main hub for the organisation of labour and the seeds of resistance to unfair working conditions and colonization among workers dissatisfied in particular with wage and taxation levels. We also use the Foucaudian approach of the deep archive, which captures the interplay between governmental policy and its outcomes, and accounts of the lived experience, as our method of evaluating our research archive.
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Pub Date : 2018-10-02DOI: 10.1080/17449359.2018.1549798
Victoria Barnes, L. Newton
This special issue of Management and Organizational History is prompted by a public celebration. It is timed to coincide with 11th November 2018 as the 100-year anniversary of Armistice Day. Articles in this issue of the journal examine the impact that war, as a social, economic and political event, had upon organizational identity and organizational memory. They speak to the broader questions of how organizations understood and rationalized their national, regional, religious or racial identity and behavior in times of conflict, and afterwards in times of peace. Who or what objects, rituals and ceremonies did organizations use to remember and commemorate the lives lost in war – if at all? To what extent were memorials or commemorations special or unique to organizations themselves? Were they embedded within wider systems of meaning? How does the end of conflict and peacetime change these gestures or attitudes towards other nations or groups? To what extent did remembering, or the memory of war, impact upon organizational identity and behavior after conflict ended?
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Pub Date : 2018-10-02DOI: 10.1080/17449359.2018.1525406
B. Hahn
ABSTRACT How do collective memory and memorialization work in divided societies? This essay takes present-day conflicts over Civil War memorialization as an opportunity to explore linkages between historical interpretations of the causes of the Civil War, attitudes toward Confederate memorials (and their removal), and modern political identities. It provides three cases of collective memorialization in one community – the college town of Chapel Hill, North Carolina – to shed light on physical commemoration and its possibility to invite discussion of the American racial history and the history of slavery.
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Pub Date : 2018-10-02DOI: 10.1080/17449359.2018.1525407
H. Cox
ABSTRACT This paper uses the distinction that has been developed within organizational studies between collected memory and collective memory to explore and contrast the nature of one multinational company’s organizational memory of World War I and World War II. Although the British American Tobacco Company (BAT) experienced severe upheavals as a result of each of the two global military conflagrations of the twentieth century, this paper argues that in terms of its organizational memory there exist clear distinctions between the two. During the course of World War I, BAT was able for the first time to generate a degree of common identity which served it well in the course of its post war expansion during the 1920s. This emergence of a more unified culture, underpinned by a range of common reference points for its staff based on texts, buildings and monuments, facilitated a company-wide collective memory of the war which was subsequently used to promote an esprit de corps across the organization. During World War II, these common cultural reference points were not developed. Thus an organizational memory of World War II only emerged many decades after the event and took the form of a collected memory based on individual recollections.
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