Using archival evidence relating to Albright & Wilson (A&W), this article challenges the validity of Chandler's view, based mainly on the study of secondary sources, that personal capitalism retarded the development of more advanced forms of managerial organisation in Britain in the late...

Research into the development of costing systems during the last 20 or so years has begun to challenge the previously widely held view that little by way of progress was made before the end of the nineteenth century. Much of this later research, however, did not include consideration of...

Cet article s'interroge sur le caractère inéluctable ou non de la séparation des comptabilités financière et de gestion en France. Nous observons en particulier le rôle de l'Etat dans cette séparation. Nous commençons par montrer que l'intégration des comptabilités financière et de...

Many researchers in management or in history of management often work on best sellers whereas the interest of such books could seem limited. This article tries to explain the reasons of the success. We have studied the historical case of the book of Eugène Léautey and Adolphe Guilbault, La...

When did the word comptabilité (accounting) appeared ? Which have been its different meanings? Those are the two questions addressed here. Drawing from accounting text- books and dictionaries, we try to describe and explain the emergence of the word after 1750, the competition with tenue des...