Journal•ISSN: 0007-6791
Business History
Taylor & Francis
About: Business History is an academic journal published by Taylor & Francis. The journal publishes majorly in the area(s): Business history & Politics. It has an ISSN identifier of 0007-6791. Over the lifetime, 2054 publications have been published receiving 29279 citations.
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TL;DR: In this article, the authors assess the major research programs in organisation studies in relation to the 'historic' perspective in organization studies. But they do not discuss the role of historical information.
Abstract: There is an increasing call for an historical perspective in organisation studies. In this essay we want to assess the major research programmes in organisation studies in relation to the ‘historic...
342 citations
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examine the development of business practices related to crisis management alongside the emergence of legislation, regulations and standards (drivers) requiring organizations to implement specific business continuity activities, revealing the influence of events over governance, the internationalisation of influence, and organisational resilience as a meta-institution.
Abstract: As a form of crisis management, business continuity management (BCM) has evolved since the 1970s in response to the technical and operational risks that threaten an organisation's recovery from hazards and interruptions. This paper examines the development of business practices related to crisis management alongside the emergence of legislation, regulations and standards (drivers) requiring organisations to implement specific business continuity activities. From the resulting historical review, three distinct phases of management practice and four phases in the development of drivers are identified, revealing the influence of events over governance, the internationalisation of influence, and organisational resilience as a meta-institution.
183 citations
TL;DR: There have been various calls in the literature more recently for engaging with history in the study of organisations and their management as discussed by the authors, and they have been joined by a number of studies that have e...
Abstract: There have been various calls in the literature more recently for engaging with history in the study of organisations and their management.1 They have been joined by a number of studies that have e...
173 citations
TL;DR: In 1900 US business corporations were dominated by plutocratic family owners, while British and French quoted companies showed higher levels of divorce of shareholding owners from management controllers as mentioned in this paper, and the United States displaced France by further divorcing ownership from control.
Abstract: In 1900 US business corporations were dominated by plutocratic family owners, while British and French quoted companies showed higher levels of divorce of shareholding owners from management controllers. Distinctive European ‘democratic’ corporate governance rules explain some of Europe's precocity and London's distinctive listing requirement of large ‘free floats’ was an important initial factor in manufacturing. Later in the twentieth century, the United States displaced France by further divorcing ownership from control. Business historians should direct their efforts to understanding why Britain was an early pioneer with persistent wide shareholding, why America took decades to catch up and why other countries did not build on their earlier lead (or even married ownership and control more closely). The pursuit of alternative (largely imagined) histories of national ownership differences could usefully be curtailed.
168 citations
TL;DR: A comparative analysis of the international literature on family firms takes A.D. Chandler's concept of personal capitalism, presented in Scale and Scope, as the theoretical frame of reference as discussed by the authors.
Abstract: This comparative analysis of the international literature on family firms takes A.D. Chandler's concept of ‘personal capitalism’, presented in Scale and Scope, as the theoretical frame of reference. The article focuses principally on Britain, particularly the thesis that large family firms were probably major contributors to national economic decline during the first half of the twentieth century. However, comparisons drawn between the characteristics and role of family firms in the United States, Germany and Japan suggest that it is not possible to describe them in a way which transcends either chronological or geographical boundaries. Comparisons of the behaviour and performance of family firms and managerial enterprises suggest that, contrary to Chandler's view, as a concept the family firm offers a limited understanding of the differential industrial performance of competing national economies before World War II. National and corporate cultural differences are seen to have been more important influen...
155 citations