This perspectives article surveys publications in business history and constructs a
conceptual framework for researching fraud and other dubious financial practices, their …

Studies on crisis management in tourism have made valuable contributions to the sector in
terms of'lessons learned', offering contextualisation, analysis and synthesis of factors that …

We agree with de Jong et al.'s argument that business historians should make their methods
more explicit and welcome a more general debate about the most appropriate methods for …

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to reflect back over his career as a management and
business historian so far as to consider opportunities for the future of management and …

The organisation of business transactions in the preindustrial period, once a central concern
in scholarly debates about the rise of capitalism, currently plays only a marginal role in the …

Purpose This paper aims to explore the turn in management and organization studies (MOS)
and reflect on “history as theory” versus “history as method”. Design/methodology/approach …

Historical research in organization and management studies continues to be described as a
type of inductive theory building from cases. But historical epistemology and methodological …

This article reports on the methodology for recruiting oral history interviewees for a project
on the history of shopping center development in Australia. Snowball sampling produced a …

Both business historians and organisation studies scholars study institutional change to
understand the interactions between business and society. However, research approaches …

Organisations, industries, and societies often grapple with paradoxes–opposing and
interrelated demands that persist over time. While questions of opposition and interrelation …