This article expands understanding of how institutional biography informs institutional
change by examining Conrad Hilton's role in building the global branded hotel chain (1946 …

This paper examines how the gentlemen's club was a space for facilitating business
activities in the literary publishing industry of Victorian Britain. These clubs served to blur the …

Institutional entrepreneurship as a field of academic enquiry is focused on the roles played
by individual agents and agents acting in concert in promoting institutional change. From …

Globalization raises important questions about the shaping of economic action by cultural
factors. This article explores the formation of what is seen by some as a prime influence on …

Whilst theories of business internationalization assert that foreignness poses challenges to
multinational companies' subsidiaries operating abroad, historical study of Hilton …

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to revisit the potential of the New Deal as a research
context in management and organization studies and, in doing so, forward the role one of its …

This article examines the context in which firms reflect on their own history in order to help
form their organizational identity. By undertaking research in business archives, it shows that …

Purpose Given managerial choices and the sociocultural context in which they are made are
at the heart of management history, then an understanding of both is critical. This paper …

This dissertation uses Fortune magazine to explore the relationship between professional
corporate managers after 1920 and the cultural impulses of urban modernism which helped …

Gerard Hanlon (henceforth GH): The book starts with the period around the 1830s in the
United States and tries to explain the emergence of management there. It considers how …