Developmental papers
Developmental Papers
A Cluster's Response To Dealing With Crisis And Uncertainty: Lessons From History (232)
Author/s: Joe Lane
Track: Management and Business History
Paper Type: Developmental Papers
Keywords: Industrial Organisation, Industrial Districts, Firm Behaviour
Abstract: This developmental paper addresses the conference theme by examining how a historical industrial cluster, and the firms within it, responded to a period of uncertainty and substantial challenges to its operational context. The case for this paper is the English pottery industry during the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, specifically the cluster of firms operating in the six by three mile region known as the Potteries in North Staffordshire. Using regional trade directories, the paper reconstructs the North Staffordshire pottery industry at the firm level for the years 1781 1850. It argues that during times of crisis and broader economic tightening, the district responded by reducing the number of new entrants and maintaining an existing pool of firms. These firms worked collaboratively on short term partnerships which became increasingly popular as the industry and cluster grew in size and importance. This was a successful strategy taken at the firm and cluster level. The preliminary findings are significant as they contrast with Popps work on pottery firms in North Staffordshire during the second half of the nineteenth century.
The Historical Structural Foundations of Perus Dependent Development in the Twenty First Century (302)
Author/s: Silverwood James Neil Pyper
Track: Management and Business History
Paper Type: Developmental Papers
Keywords: Peru, dependency, institutions
Abstract: The nature of Peruvian economic development has begun to be questioned in recent years. Whereas some have charted the change and continuities associated with economic growth in modern Peru, others have identified its dependent characteristics However, recent work on the latter proposition in incomplete, as it leaves aside the political and societal underpinnings of the latest phase of dependent development in Perus economic history. In this paper, we will provide a simultaneous social, political, and economic analysis of Peru in the Marxian tradition. For this purpose, we will utilise the historical structural framework developed by Cardoso and Faletto, which emphasized not only the structures in which social interaction took place, but also that structures can change across historical epochs due to conflict, social movements, and class struggle.
The Cartagena Railroad: A failed Hegemonic Experience and a Laboratory of Social Movements in the Caribbean (1894-1951) (338)
Author/s: Juan-Santiago Correa
Track: Management and Business History
Paper Type: Developmental Papers
Keywords: Railways, foreign Investment, Regional Development, Economic and Business History, Colombia
Abstract: The initiatives that emerged in the 1860s in Barranquilla to build a railroad connecting this city with the Caribbean Sea caused a strong reaction from Cartagena to prevent the project from materializing. However, the city is not redirected the project and once it is handled in the position of Cartagena. When Cartagena Adelanta (1894) is a railway project that regulates the flow of goods between the Caribbean and Magdalena, it had a limited influence on the regional definition. This is the response in a delayed response to compensate for the consolidation of a new sub-region with greater dynamism. In this way, this paper will analyze, first, the role played by this railroad against the variation in territorial appropriation patterns of the region at the end of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th. On the other hand, despite a rather limited success in the recovery of the commercial dynamism of Cartagena, the railroad becomes an important scenario for the movements of the region between 1930 and 1951, when the line is in its operations. For this reason, the second purpose of this paper is to analyze the workers' organizations that emerged in the railroad and its impact on the operation of the line and the demand of social networks. Methodologically, the text is based on a review of published primary sources and the press articles, as well as an exhaustive review of the literature on the subject.
Segmenting public and private: British Municipal Trading c. 1889-1975 (827)
Author/s: Kevin D. Tennent Alex G. Gilett James Fowler David A. Turner
Track: Management and Business History
Paper Type: Developmental Papers
Keywords: hybridity, institutional logics, transport, utilities, public management
Abstract: Municipal trading was a form of public administration which evolved in late nineteenth and early twentieth century Britain and exported to parts of its empire (Mees, 2000), to operate utility services. Local authorities directly operated electricity, water, gas and public transport services with the broad aim of spreading the benefit to a broad user base while covering capital costs from the surpluses gained from operating the utilities. This paper uses a critical reading of contemporary theorists from the early twentieth century together with historical examples from the urban tramway industry to challenge the historically inherited basis of the assumptions around state logic, examining the institutional foundation of the municipal trading concept. We examine the ways in which the existing institutional logics of the transport and utility industries were blended into the public sector creating what Skelcher and Smith (2015) might consider a form of segmented hybridity, with the consequence for the British context that these industries evaded the status of de-facto public goods attained by other municipal provisions such as sanitation, education and street provision.
British Contribution to Development of Management Education in Developing Countries: the Role of Management Group in TETOC in 1960s (979)
Author/s: Swapnesh Masrani Peter McKiernan
Track: Management and Business History
Paper Type: Developmental Papers
Keywords: Management education, globalisation, commonwealth, management group
Abstract: Much of the current literature on globalisation of pre and post experience management education and training highlights Americas role and in particular that of private foundations like Ford Foundation see for example, Cooke and Alcadipani 2015. Britains role in globalising management training has received little attention. This paper documents and analyses the role of little known Management Group, part of Technical Education and Training for Overseas Countries TETOC, in promoting management training in developing countries during 1960s.