Browsing History in Australian and New Zealand Business Schools: The Proceedings of the First AAHANZBS Conference. by publication year
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The Concept of Socipe in Societal Planning: An Historical Approach
Published 2009-12-01This paper presents a new theoretical framework that has been explored through historical methods. The Socipe framework combines Podgórecki’s Sociotechnical paradigm with the communication aspects of the diffusion process. ...Open AccessConference paper -
Competition in Retailing: Lessons from the History of Rochdale Consumer Co-operatives in Australia
Published 2009-12-01Rochdale consumer co-operatives have played an integral role in the lives of many people in particular localities in Australia. The Rochdale movement developed in waves in the period prior to the end of World War II, but ...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 -
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 -
The Deep Veins of the Sons of Gwalia Litigation
Published 2009-12-01This paper engages in a doctrinal analysis of historical precedent on aggrieved shareholder claims in the UK. It does so in order to expose the basis for the judgment of the House of Lords in the foundational case of ...Open AccessConference paper -
The Whole Truth: How History can Inform Our Understanding of Ageing Workforces
Published 2009-12-01The ageing of Australian workforces is a universally accepted truth. In recent years the increasing rate of retirements has been a significant contributor to tight labour markets and skills shortages. The ageing workforce ...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 -
Exploring Channel Evolution with History
Published 2009-12-01This paper discusses the evolution of the distribution channel of the Australian Information Communication Technology (ICT) industry over a 21 year period, introducing an effectiveness of the methods used to investigate ...Open AccessConference paper -
Passenger Transport in the UK 1920-50: The Drive for 'Co-ordination' of Transport Modes
Published 2009-12-01The development of the railway system transformed travel opportunities for people in the nineteenth century. The technological change dominating personal travel in the twentieth century was the development of the internal ...Open AccessConference paper -
Car Parking Matters to Small Retailers: An Historical Case Study of Three Town Centres in Marrickville
Published 2009-12-01Increasing the costs of car parking and in some cases removing it has become recommended practice for discouraging car use. To understand the perspective of the high street retail cluster who will be confronted with such ...Open AccessConference paper -
The Use and Abuse of Business History
Published 2009-12-01The use of history in vocational undergraduate courses is contested. Although there has been a recent push to bolster the teaching of history in Australian secondary schools, history in business courses still often seems ...Open AccessConference paper -
Business History as Capstone Courses
Published 2009-12-01Based on studies of history courses in Business Schools, this paper argues that history can be an alternative to the technically driven capstone courses used in many Business Schools. Universities in general and Business ...Open AccessConference paper -
Collective Biography and Labour History: The Case of The Biographical Register of the Australian Labour Movement, 1788-1975
Published 2009-12-01As a research method, collective biography seems ideally suited to meeting one of the core concerns of labour history – that of acknowledging simultaneously the agency of the individual within the collective, as well as ...Open AccessConference paper -
When History is Ignored: Business Black Swans and the Use and Abuse of a Notion
Published 2009-12-01Historical enquiry reveals how ideas mutate. This account of the ideas underpinning how fair value accounting (FVA) drifted into corporate financial reporting shows that a primary lesson of business history is that we ...Open AccessConference paper -
Using Historical Perspective to Enhance Understanding of the Relationship Between Equal Employment Opportunity, Affirmative Action and Diversity Management
Published 2009-12-01The aim of this paper is to demonstrate the value of considering Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO), Affirmative Action (AA) and Diversity Management (DM) and the relationships between them from an historical perspective. ...Open AccessConference paper -
The Benefits (and Limitations) of Business History to the Study of Management and Organisations: The Example of the Global Diffusion of Management Knowledge
Published 2009-12-01This paper explores the contribution of a business history perspective to the study of management and organisational studies. While business history tends to be devalued within management academic groupings, this paper ...Open AccessConference paper -
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