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History in Australian and New Zealand Business Schools: The Proceedings of the First AAHANZBS Conference.
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History in Australian and New Zealand Business Schools: The Proceedings of the First AAHANZBS Conference.
Editor: Greg Patmore
Publisher: Business and Labour History Group, The University of Sydney
ISBN: 978-1-74210-164-4
The inaugural conference of the Academic Association of Historians in Australian and New Zealand Business Schools (AAHANZBS) is being held at The University of Sydney, 14-15 December 2009.
The symposium is organised on behalf of AAHANZBS by the Business and Labour History Group, The University of Sydney, with the financial support of the University’s Faculty of Economics and Business.
The inaugural conference of AAHANZBS provides an opportunity for researchers to present papers across a wide range of topics. There are three main themes:
- The role of historical research in developing theoretical perspectives in business and management;
- How historical research aids our understanding of contemporary issues in business and management;
- Teaching history in business and management schools.
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Should Banking be Left to the Bankers? A Comparison of the Great Depression and the Great Financial Crisis
Published 2009-12-01G.K. Chesterton wrote ‘The Secret People’ in 1915, but his words also express the despair felt by the unemployed in the 1930s, struggling against events outside their control. "They fight us by shuffling papers; they have ...Open AccessConference paper -
The History of the US Automobile Industry: A Psychological Inquiry
Published 2009-12-01The US auto industry has been in-and-out of crisis for a number of decades; the question is why? To begin answering this question, the present paper will undertake a case history dating from 1893 (the date of the first ...Open AccessConference paper -
Organisational Paths: How History Matters in a Publishing Organisation
Published 2009-12-01Whilst the notion of path dependence features quite prominently in organisation and business history literature, its actual meaning and logic have remained vague and ambiguous. In order to advance a more precise understanding ...Open AccessConference paper -
We’ve Been Down this Road Before: Evidence on the Health Consequences of Precarious Employment in Industrial Societies, 1840-1920
Published 2009-12-01A large body of international scientific research now indicates that the growth of job insecurity, flexible/temporary work and precarious forms of self-employment have had significant negative consequences for occupational ...Open AccessConference paper -
Can Historical Research into Fengshui Tell Us Anything about Business in China?
Published 2009-12-01The commodification of higher education has been led by business schools in Australia, and they have been accused of teaching merely technique and preaching greed in their manifesto of career and revenue generation. The ...Open AccessConference paper