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Geoffrey Jones - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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oral History and writing the Business History of emerging markets
2018Co-Authors: Geoffrey Jones, Rachael ComunaleAbstract:This working paper highlights the benefits that rigorous use of oral History can offer to research on the contemporary Business History of emerging markets. Oral History can help fill some of the major information voids arising from the absence of a strong tradition of corporate archives in most countries in Africa, Asia and Latin America. Oral History also permits a level of nuance that is hard to obtain even if written documents exist and are accessible in corporate and governmental archives. Oral histories can provide insights into why events did not occur, and to why companies chose certain industries over others, including wishing to avoid sectors where there was extensive government interference. Oral History can shed light on hyper-sensitive topics, such corruption, which are rarely formally documented. While the methodological challenges of oral History are considerable and fully acknowledged, oral History can still be seen as a critical source of data on opinions, voices and judgements on events on which there was often silence in written records.
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The Alternative Business History: Business in Emerging Markets
Business History Review, 2017Co-Authors: Gareth Austin, Carlos Dávila, Geoffrey JonesAbstract:This article suggests that the Business History of emerging markets should be seen as an alternative Business History, rather than merely adding new settings to explore established core debates. The discipline of Business History evolved around the corporate strategies and structures of developed economies. The growing literature on the Business History of emerging markets addresses contexts that are different from those of developed markets. These regions had long eras of foreign domination, had extensive state intervention, faced institutional inefficiencies, and experienced extended turbulence. This article suggests that this context drove different Business responses than are found in the developed world. Entrepreneurs counted more than managerial hierarchies; immigrants and diaspora were critical sources of entrepreneurship; illegal and informal forms of Business were common; diversified Business groups rather than the M-form became the major form of large-scale Business; corporate strategies to deal with turbulence were essential; and radical corporate social-responsibility concepts were pursued by some firms.
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Emerging Markets and the Future of Business History
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2017Co-Authors: Gareth Austin, Carlos Dávila, Geoffrey JonesAbstract:This working paper suggests that the Business History of emerging markets should be seen as an alternative Business History rather than merely adding new settings to explore established core debates. The discipline of Business History evolved around the corporate strategies and structures of developed economies. The growing literature on the Business History of emerging markets addresses contexts which are different from developed markets. These regions had long eras of foreign domination, extensive state intervention, faced institutional inefficiencies, and experienced extended turbulence. This working paper suggests that this context drove different Business responses than in the developed world. Entrepreneurs counted more than managerial hierarchies; immigrants and diaspora were critical sources of entrepreneurship; illegal and informal forms of Business was commonplace; diversified Business groups rather than the M-form became the major form of large-scale Business; corporate strategies to deal with turbulence were essential; and radical corporate social responsibility concepts were pursued by some firms. Today emerging markets such as China, India, Brazil, South Korea, Mexico, and Indonesia are amongst the largest economies in the world. If Business History is to remain relevant as a subject, it must transition as a discipline from being heavily focussed on North America, Europe and Japan to fully incorporating the historical experiences of Africa, Asia and Latin America.
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power from sunshine a Business History of solar energy
2012Co-Authors: Geoffrey Jones, Loubna BouamaneAbstract:This working paper provides a longitudinal perspective on the Business History of solar energy between the nineteenth century and the present day. Its covers early attempts to develop solar energy, the use of passive solar in architecture before World War 2, and the subsequent growth of the modern photovoltaic industry. It explores the role of entrepreneurial actors, sometimes motivated by broad social and environmental agendas, whose strategies to build viable Business models proved crucially dependent on two exogenous factors: the prices of alternative conventional fuels and public policy. Supportive public policies in various geographies facilitated the commercialization of photovoltaic technologies, but they also encouraged rent-seeking and inefficiencies, while policy shifts resulted in a regular boom and bust cycle. The perceived long-term potential of solar energy, combined with the capitalintensity and cyclical nature of the industry, led to large electronics, oil and engineering companies buying entrepreneurial firms in successive generations. These firms became important drivers of innovation and scale, but they also found solar to be an industry in which achieving a viable Business model proved a chimera, whilst waves of creative destruction became the norm.
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The Oxford Handbook of Business History
2008Co-Authors: Geoffrey Jones, Jonathan ZeitlinAbstract:This Handbook provides a state-of-the-art survey of research in Business History. Business historians study the historical evolution of Business systems, entrepreneurs and firms, as well as their interaction with their political, economic, and social environment. They address issues of central concern to researchers in management studies and Business administration, as well as economics, sociology and political science, and to historians. They employ a range of qualitative and quantitative methodologies, but all share a belief in the importance of understanding change over time. The Oxford Handbook of Business History has brought together leading scholars to provide a comprehensive, critical, and interdisciplinary examination of Business History, organized into four parts: Approaches and Debates; Forms of Business Organization; Functions of Enterprise; and Enterprise and Society. The Handbook shows that Business History is a wide-ranging and dynamic area of study, generating compelling empirical data, which has sometimes confirmed and sometimes contested widely-held views in management and the social sciences. The Oxford Handbook of Business History is a key reference work for scholars and advanced students of Business History, and a fascinating resource for social scientists in general. Contributors to this volume - Rolv Petter Amdam, Professor of Business History, BI Norwegian School of Management, Trevor Boyns, Professor of Accounting and Business History, Cardiff Business School at Cardiff, United Kingdom, Youssef Cassis, Professor of Economic and Social History, University of Geneva, Switzerland, Andrea Colli, Associate Professor in Economic History, Bocconi University, Italy, Jeffrey Fear, Associate Professor, University of Redlands in California, United States, Robert Fitzgerald, Reader in Business History and International Management, Royal Holloway, University of London, United Kingdom, Patrick Fridenson, Professor of International Business History, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris, W. Mark Fruin, Professor of Corporate and Global Strategy, College of Business at San Jose State University, United States, Howard Gospel, Professor of Management, King's College, University of London, United Kingdom, Margaret B.W. Graham, Associate Professor of Strategy and Organization, Desautels Faculty of Management, McGill University, Canada, Gary Herrigel, Associate Professor of Political Science, University of Chicago, United States, Geoffrey Jones, Isidor Straus Professor of Business History, Harvard Business School, United States, Matthias Kipping, Professor of Strategic Management and Chair in Business History, Schulich School of Business, York University, Toronto, Canada, Wolfgang Konig, Professor of the History of Technology, Technical University of Berlin, Germany, Naomi R. Lamoreaux, Professor of Economics and History, University of California, Los Angeles, United States, Luca Lanzalaco, lecturer in Political Science and Public Policy, University of Macerata, Italy, William Lazonick, University Professor, University of Massachusetts Lowell, United States, Michel Lescure, Professor of Economic and Social History, University of Paris X-Nanterre, France, Kenneth J. Lipartito, Professor of History, Florida International University, United States, Robert Millward, Professor of Economic History, University of Manchester, United Kingdom, Daniel Raff, Associate Professor of Management, Wharton School, and Associate Professor of History, School of Arts and Sciences, University of Pennsylvania, United States, Mary Rose, Professor of Entrepreneurship, Institute of Entrepreneurship and Enterprise Development, Management School, Lancaster University, United Kingdom, Peter Temin, Elisha Gray II Professor of Economics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), United States, Kathleen Thelen, Behlul Usdiken, Professor of Management and Organization, Sabanci University, Istanbul, Turkey, R. Daniel Wadhwani, Assistant Professor of Management and Fletcher Jones Professor of Entrepreneurship, University of the Pacific, California, United States, Jonathan Zeitlin, Professor of Sociology, Public Affairs, Political Science, and History, University of Wisconsin-Madison, United States.
Chinmay Tumbe - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Recent Trends in the Business History of India
Business History Review, 2019Co-Authors: Chinmay TumbeAbstract:The past decade has seen a resurgence of interest in understanding Indian Business History. A number of Business History books have been published in the academic and nonacademic press. Special issues on India have appeared in leading field journals, more management schools in India and outside are engaging with the field, internship and fellowship opportunities have been initiated, and Business archives have sprung up. This article documents these recent trends, examines the emerging scholarship, and identifies gaps that need to be addressed in the future.
Niall Piercy - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Business History and operations management
Business History, 2012Co-Authors: Niall PiercyAbstract:Operations management is a key function in the modern organisation and an important area of study in the Business school. Like many subjects it remains separated from the Business History community. The practice of operations management can gain meaningful and significant lessons from proper consideration of the historical antecedents of current practices. Unfortunately, more than any other Business area, operations management has a habit of forgetting the lessons of the past and ‘reinventing the wheel’. The purpose of this paper is to emphasise the value of historical analysis in operations management, assess the level of historical coverage of the development of operations within that subject area (taking a review of OM textbooks as a proxy), and highlight the valuable opportunities for the Business History community to engage with their operations colleagues to better guide the next generation of operations management education and practice.
Knut Sogner - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Recent trends in Business History
Scandinavian Economic History Review, 1997Co-Authors: Knut SognerAbstract:Abstract Over the last twenty years Business History has developed into a very lively academic field. Scholars from a range of backgrounds have developed new qualitative approaches to the understanding ofthe Business firm srole in economic development, thus challenging the quatitative approach which has dominated so much economic History in the past. This article tries to distil three overall trends. First, from a background of what may be defined as ‘Business History as a subject’, the American historian Alfred D. Chandler has shown the way in elucidating the social patterns of Business. Secondly, in the vein of the new ‘cultural’ studies, there is a trend which emphasizes that those social patterns, contrary to what Chandler and other economists think, may not be chosen because they are the most efficient, but because they are believed to be best. Business structures and the whole economy are social and cultural products, as well as economic. A third trend links Business studies to studies of innovation...
María Inés Barbero - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Business History in Latin America: A Historiographical Perspective
Business History Review, 2008Co-Authors: María Inés BarberoAbstract:In this survey of the trajectory of Latin American Business History, the focus is on its development over the course of the past twenty years, when the discipline began to be recognized as a field of specialization within historical studies. The first section is a consideration of the origins of Business History in Latin America, from the 1960s to 1985. The second section, covering 1985 to the present, is an analysis of the institutionalization of Latin American Business History as research expanded and practitioners in the field began to adopt a more professional approach to their work. In the third section, the focus is on the topics that have attracted the most attention during the previous two decades, identifying research trends that have transcended national differences as well as some notable traits of Latin American Business. The last section, a consideration of how Latin America can contribute both to Business History and to comparative studies, concludes with proposals for a new research agenda.
