BH ToC 61,2

The new edition of BH is here:

Business History, Volume 61, Issue 2, March 2019 is now available online on Taylor & Francis Online.

Perspective

The business history of the preindustrial world: Towards a comparative historical analysis |
Oscar Gelderblom & Francesca Trivellato
Pages: 225-259 | DOI: 10.1080/00076791.2018.1426750
Original Articles

When union strategy meets business strategy: The union voucher at Axa
Rémi Bourguignon & Mathieu Floquet
Pages: 260-280 | DOI: 10.1080/00076791.2017.1368491

Guilds, authority and the individual: The Company of Mercers prosecution of Dorothy Gretton in early eighteenth-century Derby
Peter Collinge
Pages: 281-298 | DOI: 10.1080/00076791.2017.1368492

Big business in the Russian empire: A European perspective
Volodymyr Kulikov & Martin Kragh
Pages: 299-321 | DOI: 10.1080/00076791.2017.1374369

Sober business: Shared value creation between the insurance industry and the temperance movement
Ann-Kristin Bergquist & Liselotte Eriksson
Pages: 322-342 | DOI: 10.1080/00076791.2017.1380627

Competitive advantage and the transformation of value chains over time: The example of a South Korean diversified business group, 1953–2013
In Woo Jun & Chris Rowley
Pages: 343-370 | DOI: 10.1080/00076791.2018.1430141
Book Review

Bordeaux et les États-Unis, 1776–1815. Politique et stratégie négociantes dans la genèse d’un réseau commercial
Hubert Bonin
Pages: 371-373 | DOI: 10.1080/00076791.2016.1191839

The business of sports agents
Alex G. Gillett
Pages: 374-375 | DOI: 10.1080/00076791.2017.1388037

World market transformation: Inside the German fur capital Leipzig, 1870–1939
Alice Janssens
Pages: 376-377 | DOI: 10.1080/00076791.2017.1393904

Dutch enterprise in the twentieth century. Business strategies in a small open economy
Marten Boon
Pages: 378-379 | DOI: 10.1080/00076791.2017.1393905

Sport in Urban England: Middlesbrough, 1870–1914
Alex G. Gillett
Pages: 380-381 | DOI: 10.1080/00076791.2017.1394654

Revolutions from Grub Street: A history of magazine publishing in Britain
Catherine Armstrong
Pages: 382-383 | DOI: 10.1080/00076791.2018.1423756

Reblogged from the ever brilliant Patter

Reblogged from Pat Thomson’s brilliant blog ‘Patter’:

revise and resubmit

Yep. Those dreaded words when you get the email back from the journal. R and R. Anything but Rest and Relaxation. Groan. In essence, the message says We have considered your paper and we have decided that – well it’s just not going to cut it. At this point. However, we see enough in it to give you another shot. But only oneAnd (to steal Ru Paul’s words) Don’t **** it up.

To continue reading click here.

BAM PDW CfP

BAM2019: Call for PDW Submissions Officially Announced

The British Academy of Management is pleased to formally announce the call for Professional Development Workshops (PDWs), to be presented at the BAM2019 Conference at Aston University. BAM dedicates the first morning of the Annual Conference to the Professional Development Workshops. The PDWs are open to all delegates and since 2012 have become amongst the well-attended and widely supported events at the BAM Annual Conference. 29 PDWs were accepted for the BAM2018 Conference and we are inviting you to submit workshop proposals on any aspect of business and management scholarship including research, teaching and engagement with practice. If successful, your proposal will play an important role in helping to update fellow academics and providing research leadership in your  discipline.If you have presented a successful PDW at other conferences, we would encourage you to submit this to the BAM Conference too.

The deadline to submit PDWs is Friday 26th April 2019 at 17:00 (GMT).

CHRONOS – launch of new research centre

It’s with great pleasure that we announce the forthcoming launch of the Centre for Critical and Historical Research on Organization and Society (CHRONOS) is delighted to announce its official launch on 15 May 2019, Moore Auditorium, Royal Holloway.

For more information please email elena.giovannoni@rhul.ac.uk

FT on organizational memory

Managers are the guardians of company history

Institutional memory is valuable and without it we risk repeating past mistakes

Years ago, my parents decided to build a summerhouse in the garden and consulted a neighbour who had once been the property’s housekeeper. The octogenarian sucked her remaining teeth. “Mark my words: it will blow down. The last one did,” she said. “It stood for 50 years — but it blew down.”

This is the problem with tapping institutional memory. Some of your colleagues are the only people who know about the organisation’s strategic errors and successes. But like all autobiography, their recollections may be partial, and their instincts may tend to preservation rather than progress.

I was reminded of the summerhouse (still standing, by the way), when I read last week’s interview with Konica Minolta’s chief executive. Shoei Yamana found section heads, known as “bucho”, resisted his reforms. Their attachment to the status quo was founded on the group’s historical victories, but, as Mr Yamana put it, “We cannot live with past success”.

Sweep away this layer of middle management, as new brooms are wont to do, and you will quickly hear the complaint that the organisation is losing institutional memory. This is invariably self-interested. Still, a little like taking a mallet to a retaining wall, it is best to understand what you are removing before you tear it out. Otherwise, you will find yourself in the position of those new chief executives who axe a group of old hands only to have to rehire them as “consultants” because they were the only people who knew how to fix an old piece of kit, read a defunct computer language, or even (in the case of the worldwide pilot shortage) fly a plane.

For the whole article, see the FT  .

 

BAM grant portal

The British Academy of Management (The Academy) grant portal for 2019 grants is now open and the deadline to submit applications through the system is Monday 15th April at 17:00 (GMT).
You can register for an account and begin your application at https://bam.grantplatform.com/

The Schemes

  • Transitions 1 – aimed at Academy members who are early in their career who hold a PhD awarded within 5 years before the closing date of the scheme, and who wish to develop an empirical research project that advances business and management scholarship and improves their research capacities. Proposals may be related to any subject area within the Academy’s intellectual remit.
  • Transitions 2 – aimed at Academy members who are experienced researchers and who wish to develop an empirical research project that advances business and management scholarship and develops their research capacities in an empirical or intellectual domain. Proposals may be related to any subject area within the Academy’s intellectual remit.
  • Management Knowledge and Education – aimed atAcademy members who want to propose a research project that informs the scholarly debate around management knowledge and education: on management learning and teaching, pedagogy, andragogy, leadership development or the generation and circulation of management knowledge and knowing.
  • ANZAM/BAM Collaborative Research Award – The purpose of this scheme is to support and advance international research collaborations between management researchers in Australia, New Zealand and the UK.  The scheme is based on a partnership between the Australia & New Zealand Academy of Management (ANZAM) and the British Academy of Management (BAM). The scheme gives priority for the development of ANZAM/BAM members who are at an early stage in their careers, defined by being less than 5 years after completing their PhD at the date of closing of applications. A noticeboard will be available on the Academy website to facilitate communication between management researchers in Australia, New Zealand and the UK.

 

Important Information
All applications must be submitted via this grants portal.  Principal Investigators should register their application in their own name.

It is recommended that you write the application in a separate Word document in the first instance, and then copy this across to the online application portal in order to prevent the possibility of losing your work.  Late applications will not be accepted and you are advised to submit your application well in advance of the deadline.

 

All Principal Investigators and Co-Investigators must be a member of British Academy of Management (or Australia & New Zealand Academy of Management for Investigators from Australia or New Zealand to the ANZAM/BAM Collaborative Research Award).  Non-members wishing to apply to the scheme can join the Academy before submitting the application. Applications are invited from individuals or teams (which also includes industry partnerships).  Principal Investigators and Co-Investigators who have previously held grants must not be within two years of the completion of their previous project by the closing date for the Grant Schemes.

Academy Members can submit to only one of the Grant Schemes, whether as Principal Investigator(PI) or Co-Investigator(CI).
More information about each of the Academy Grants Schemes can be found via the following link:

If you have any questions about the Schemes, please contact the British Academy of Management Grants Administrator, Stuart Hull, at grants@bam.ac.uk

Best wishes

The British Academy of Management Grants Team

ToC MOH 13,4 (2018)

Management & Organizational History, Volume 13, Issue 4, November 2018 is now available online on Taylor & Francis Online.

Special issue on War and Peace in Organizational Memory.

Guest Editors: Victoria Barnes and Lucy Newton

Introduction

War and peace in organizational memory
Victoria Barnes & Lucy Newton
Pages: 303-308 | DOI: 10.1080/17449359.2018.1549798
Articles

War memorials in organizational memory: a case study of the Bank of England |
Victoria Barnes & Lucy Newton
Pages: 309-333 | DOI: 10.1080/17449359.2018.1534596

 

Good war/bad war: a war to remember, a war to forget?
Howard Cox
Pages: 334-351 | DOI: 10.1080/17449359.2018.1525407

 

Social memory assets as a defense mechanism: the Onondaga Pottery in World War II
Stephanie Vincent
Pages: 352-372 | DOI: 10.1080/17449359.2018.1525405

 

Amodern and modern warfare in the making of a commercial airline
Nicholous M. Deal, Albert J. Mills & Jean Helms Mills
Pages: 373-396 | DOI: 10.1080/17449359.2018.1547647

 

Conflicting commemorations: past and present in confederate memorialization
Barbara Hahn
Pages: 397-403 | DOI: 10.1080/17449359.2018.1525406

 

British and German SMEs and the memory of war: a comparative approach
David W. Paulson
Pages: 404-429 | DOI: 10.1080/17449359.2018.1550425

ToC MOH 13,3 (2018)

Management & Organizational History, Volume 13, Issue 3, August 2018 is now available online on Taylor & Francis Online.

Editorial

Reflections on the integration of history and organization studies
Peter Miskell
Pages: 213-219 | DOI: 10.1080/17449359.2018.1550286
Articles

The contingencies of corporate failure: the case of Lucas industries
Paul Kerr Edwards
Pages: 220-235 | DOI: 10.1080/17449359.2018.1534597

 

Varieties of capitalism and the corporate use of history: the Japanese experience
Pierre-Yves Donzé & Andrew Smith
Pages: 236-257 | DOI: 10.1080/17449359.2018.1547648

 

Public management and organizational reform in a historical perspective: the case of Chile’s State reform and public management modernization of 1920s
Mauricio Olavarría-Gambi
Pages: 258-282 | DOI: 10.1080/17449359.2018.1547646

 

Creating cultural heritage: three vignettes on Carl Jacobsen, his museum and foundation
Ida Lunde Jørgensen
Pages: 283-301 | DOI: 10.1080/17449359.2018.1547645

Research Assistant job

Research Assistant

Expressions of interest by 11 March 2019

What does the role entail?
As Research Assistant your main duties will include:

  • Searching for relevant literature and preparing a literature review on the key topics of the study with guidance as necessary;
  • Organising, collating and coding qualitative data;
  • Working both independently and as part of a larger team of researchers and stakeholders;
  • Supporting research activities, including contributing to research results and outputs and to the generation of independent and original ideas, ensuring a successful programme of investigation;
  • Participating in the research meetings of the research group and presenting research output where appropriate;
  • Contributing to the research culture of the School, where appropriate;
  • Continually updating your knowledge, understanding and skills in the research field.

What will you bring to the role?
As Research Assistant you will have:

  • Masters or on the final stages of the PhD in the subject areas of International Business, Management, Organisation Studies or a closely allied discipline;
  • A strong background in qualitative research;
  • Good interpersonal and communication skills, both written and verbal and the ability to communicate effectively with a wide range of stakeholders;
  • Well-developed analytical skills;
  • Good time management and planning skills, with the ability to meet tight deadlines;
  • A proven ability to work well both individually and in a team;
  • The ability to work unsupervised and to use your own initiative.

 

The research assistant will work closely with Professor Emmanuella Plakoyiannaki and Dr Effie Kesidou at Leeds University Business School. For further info, please email: e.plakoyiannaki@leeds.ac.uk

Period of employment: March 15/03/2019 – 31/07/2019

Theorizing from Qualitative Case Study Research

We would like to invite you to the upcoming event ‘Theorising from Qualitative Case Study Research’ run by BAM International Business and International Management SIG & Academy of International Business, UK & Ireland

Date and Time: Thursday 25th April 2019, 12:30pm-15:00pm
Location: University of Sussex, Falmer, Brighton, BN1 9RH
Event fee: Free

The aim of this workshop is to unpack the theorising potential of Qualitative Case Study Research. Emphasis will be placed on conducting Qualitative Case study Research under different philosophical orientations and its implications for theorising. In particular, the workshop with address the following questions:
• What is Qualitative Case Study Research?
• How do our paradigmatic assumptions shape Qualitative Case Study Research?
• How do we theorise from Qualitative Case Study Research?
We will critically reflect on these questions by bringing in Philosophy of Science and Methodological literatures. We will discuss the limitations of inductive theory-building, and explore the utilisation of alternative approaches to theorising that can enhance the Case Study’s explanatory power and potential for contextualisation

Speakers
Emmanuella Plakoyiannaki is Professor of International Business at Leeds University Business School. She is also the Co-Chair for the IB/IM SIG of the British Academy of Management (BAM). Emmanuella is committed to raising awareness about qualitative research and has delivered relevant seminars in various Universities throughout the world. Her research interests refer to qualitative research, language (in an IB context) as well as consumer behaviour. She has published in various academic journals including the Academy of Management Review, Journal of International Business Studies, Journal of World Business and Journal of Management Studies among others.

For more information and register your place, please go to: https://www.bam.ac.uk/civicrm/event/info?reset=1&id=357

Kind regards,

Linh

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