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Purpose The purpose of this paper is to test Chandler’s dictum that “unless structure follows strategy, inefficiency results” (Chandler, 1962, p. 314) by assessing the continuing efforts to align structure with strategy in the automobile industry from the turn of the century through the...
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traditional corporate performance. It enriches both IC and management literature with new empirical evidence and provides a basis …
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reflection about its evolutionary patterns and heuristic value in other fields, as for instance, management studies. A peculiar … crossroads and meeting point for both business historians, practitioners and scholars in management studies. Design … beneficial for management scholars. Findings – Business history has in fact a high potential in providing, through its …
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literature. Examines the novelty of BPR in relation to other, more established, management approaches, with particular emphasis … on the similarities and differences between total quality management and BPR. From case studies reported by UK businesses …
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comparative historical analysis approach with strategic management M&A theory to trace and understand how and why UK hotel …
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Accounting for organizational history is essential to any change process. We argue, however, that the intentional revision of that history also can be important. We treat history as malleable, because events and actions from the past are susceptible to reinterpretation as organizations try to...
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Purpose – This paper seeks to identify and define the genre of corporate history within the pervasive historical discourse produced by and about organizations which tells the past of an organization across a multiplicity of texts: published works – commissioned and critical accounts,...
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/methodology/approach – Borrowing conceptual frameworks from both recent management and historical scholarship on organizational failure that integrates … failed to navigate this transition successfully. It also adds to the small but important literature in management and …
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Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine the origins and the business model of department stores in Mexico between 1891 and 1910. Design/methodology/approach – Primary and secondary source material support an historical and comparative study of retailing and marketing evolution in a...
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Purpose – Focusing on the early development of the three major forms of local advertising employed by independent department stores across the USA – newspapers, radio, and television – this paper examines continuity in the industry's commercial use of new technologies....
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