Serves as an introduction to the special issue on the strategic use of the past and future in organizations published in the Journal of Organizational Change Management . The issue of how organizations and their members appropriate the past and future in the context of organizational identity is...

Purpose – This paper aims to look at the role of the top and middle management of the Philips organization during the transition from one type of organizational change to another in the 1990s and the role the history of the organisation played in this process. Design/methodology/approach –...

Purpose – In this paper aims to interview Walter Kiechel III about his book, The Lords of Strategy: The Secret Intellectual History of the New Corporate World , and the lessons it offers for today's managers. Design/methodology/approach – In this interview, Strategy & Leadership asked Walter...

Purpose – Applications of information technology have been directly responsible for the increase in productivity of business, government and academic activities. Business and management historians have yet to contribute to better understanding such processes. This paper aims to address this...

Purpose – The purpose of this article is to look in detail into the collapse and its subsequent implications of the London and County Securities bank (L&C) in 1973, one of the most significant UK corporate fraud scandals and regulatory failures in recent decades. Design/methodology/approach...

Purpose – Seeks to explain the survival of the Local Education Authority (LEA) as an organizational form despite the significant reform of UK education that created a hostile environment for them. Design/methodology/approach – Adopting a historical perspective and drawing on...

General Medical Practitioners (GPs) and their practices have been subject to a wide range of mandatory financial and administrative changes in the last few years. Explores the nature of these changes as well as providing insights into the way these demands have been managed, drawing its...

Analyses the attempt by a trade association (the British Federation of Master Printers) to secure the universal adoption by its members of a uniform costing system. It was envisaged that the industry‐wide application of a prescribed costing solution would secure the socio‐economic...

Accounting systems find their meaning and nature in the historical and social context of the organisations of which they are part. These social and technical aspects are amplified and their interrelationships traced through a specific study of the accounting systems in the Church of England....

Provides a summary of a Department of Health funded research study investigating performance and impact of four pilot digital interactive television services in the consumer health field. These were launched in various locations in the UK in 2001. Text and video, interactive and transactional...