This article questions the ‘uniqueness’ hypothesis of East Asian business by highlighting a number of interesting similarities between its steel industries and those of Western Europe. These similarities concern the relationship between the steelmakers and the steel-using industries in each...

Examines the role of small, locally based management consultancies as global change agents. Based on evidence from Italy, shows that these consultancies not only have managed to develop successful survival strategies, but also play an important role in the dissemination and translation of new...

"There has, in recent times, been an increasing interest in history, broadly defined, among management scholars. But what specifically a historical approach or perspective can contribute to research on organizational fields, organizations, strategy etc. and how exactly such historical research...