In the second half of the twentieth century, the car industry became a lightning rod for debates about human contributions to climate change. Widespread motorisation galvanised the green movements of the 1960s and 1970s, regulators increasingly demanded the use of pollution and climate...

In the early twentieth century, predominantly white union barbers in Arkansas implemented voluntary regulations that dictated business practices to create a voluntary cartel. Black and other minority barbers who often had more success than white barbers prior to unionization tended to ignore...

This working paper brings together a diverse group of scholars to discuss the historiography of capitalism, business history and global governance and lay the foundations for further research in this area. Grace Ballor and Sabine Pitteloud open the discussion with a historiographical survey of...

Purpose: Develop a method for an extended "fore-and-aft" use of business models. The method will turn them also into potent business history tools, in addition to being valuable forward planning instruments. Approach: Business models can be used to understand organizations by studying them as...

Using two household account books, this article analyses the family and staff, travel, consumption and flamboyance of the merchant-aristocratic household of the Loitz family in the 1570s. In 1572, the merchant-bankers Loitz, who had been highly successful in international trade and finance from...

In the second half of the twentieth century, the car industry became a lightning rod for debates about human contributions to climate change. Widespread motorisation galvanised the green movements of the 1960s and 1970s, regulators increasingly demanded the use of pollution and climate...

Using two household account books, this article analyses the family and staff, travel, consumption and flamboyance of the merchant-aristocratic household of the Loitz family in the 1570s. In 1572, the merchant-bankers Loitz, who had been highly successful in international trade and finance from...

Chapter 1. Introduction- The Making of the Modern Organisation -- Chapter 2- Organisation; from the First to the Fourth Industrial Revolution -- Chapter 3. The First Industrial Revolution; Adhocracy to Hierarchy -- Chapter 4. The Second Industrial Revolution; Hierarchy to M Form -- Chapter 5....

Part I. Cost Efficiency and the Hospital System in the United States -- Chapter 1. Fuzzy Numbers: U.S. Hospital Accounting since the 1930s (Christy F. Chapin) -- Chapter 2. Resisting The Dream of Markets: Maryland’s All-Payer Hospital Rate-Setting System and the Persistence of Regulation in...

Chapter 1: Introduction -- What is Brand Marketing? -- Chapter 2: Ancient Product Marking --Signs of the Times -- Chapter 3: From the Decline of Guilds through the 18th Century -- Chapter 4: 19th Century Demand for Brand Protection -- Chapter 5: U.S. Copyright and Design Patent Registration for...

Purpose: This case study examines Marriott Corporation's large and successful spinoff between 1993 and 1995 and the concomitant adoption of a corporate ALFO strategy enabled by the transfer of assets and debt between the two entities. As an example of corporate restructuring, it involves...