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Geoffrey Jones

Researcher at Harvard University

Publications -  223
Citations -  6732

Geoffrey Jones is an academic researcher from Harvard University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Business history & Entrepreneurship. The author has an hindex of 38, co-authored 219 publications receiving 6215 citations. Previous affiliations of Geoffrey Jones include University of Cambridge & University of Reading.

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Culture specific and cross-culturally generalizable implicit leadership theories: Are attributes of charismatic/transformational leadership universally endorsed?

Deanne N. Den Hartog, +143 more
- 01 Jun 1999 - 
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors focus on culturally endorsed implicit theories of leadership (CLTs) and show that attributes associated with charismatic/transformational leadership will be universally endorsed as contributing to outstanding leadership.
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Bringing history (back) into international business

TL;DR: The authors argue that the field of international business should evolve its rhetoric from the relatively uncontroversial idea that "history matters" to exploring how it matters, and discuss four conceptual channels through which history matters, illustrating each with a major example.
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Multinationals and Global Capitalism: From the Nineteenth to the Twenty First Century

TL;DR: The authors provides an essential historical framework for understanding global business, showing how entrepreneurs built a global economy in the nineteenth century by creating firms that pursued resources and markets across borders, and how they have driven the creation of the contemporary global economy.
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Overcoming Institutional Voids: A Reputation-Based View of Long Run Survival

TL;DR: In this article, a meta-resource that allows firms to activate their conventional resources, namely reputation, is defined as a set of attributes, including prominence, perceived quality, and resilience, and a process model that illustrates the mechanisms that allow reputation to facilitate survival.
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The Oxford Handbook of Business History

TL;DR: In this article, the authors discuss approaches and debates in the context of business organizations, and discuss the role of profit and profit maximization in the formation and management of a business organization.