‘Ungentlemanly capitalism’: John Hay and Malaya, 1904–1964

White, Nicholas J.

doi:10.1080/17449359.2018.1465826

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“…Cornelius et al (2019) take a multipolar perspective, looking at colonisation from the perspective of local rulers and workers in Colonial Nigeria as well as from the perspective of the British, demonstrating how the marginalised groups were able to mobilise resistance. There is also more potential for using the archives of the metropole to look at the pressures and tensions of the decolonisation process, as seen in the work of White (2019) and Mollan et al (2020), as forms of soft colonial power attempted to maintain themselves through earlier investment linkages.…”

Section: Looking Ahead: An Agenda For the 2020smentioning

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Management and business history – a reflexive research agenda for the 2020s

Tennent

2020

JMH

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Purpose The purpose of this paper is to reflect back over his career as a management and business historian so far as to consider opportunities for the future of management and business history as a disciplinary area. Design/methodology/approach The paper consists of two segments – the first half is an auto-ethnographic personal reflection looking at the author’s research journey and how the discipline as experienced by the author has evolved over that time. The second half is a prescriptive look forward to consider how we should leverage the strengths as historians to progress the discipline forward. Findings The paper demonstrates opportunities for management and business history to encompass new agendas including the expansion of the topic into teaching, the possibility for the advancement of empirical contributions and opportunities for findings in new research areas, including the global south and public and project management history. Originality/value The paper demonstrates that historians should be more confident in the disciplinary capabilities, particularly their understandings of historic context, continuity, change and chronologies when making empirical and theoretical contributions.

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Section: Looking Ahead: An Agenda For the 2020smentioning

confidence: 99%

Management and business history – a reflexive research agenda for the 2020s

Tennent

2020

JMH

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“Imperium in Imperio”: The Corporation, Mining, and Governance in British Southeast Asia, 1900–1930

Baillargeon¹

2020

Enterp. Soc.

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This article examines the history of mining in British Southeast Asia during the early twentieth century. In particular, it focuses on the histories of the Burma Corporation and the Duff Development Company, which were located in British-occupied Burma and Malaya, respectively. It argues that despite being represented as “rogue” corporate ventures in areas under “indirect” colonial rule, the contrasting fates of each company—one successful, one not—reveal how foreign-owned businesses operating in the empire became increasingly beholden to British colonial state regulations during this period, marking a shift in policy from the “company-state” model that operated in prior centuries. The histories of these two firms ultimately demonstrate the continued significance of business in the making of empire during the late colonial period, bridging the divide between the age of company rule and the turn toward state-sponsored “development” that would occur in the mid-twentieth century.

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