Newsround: Exclusive discount for HIO readers, BAM Business History SIG programme, BHR turns 100, Academics on Substack
Tentative schedule of History Track at BAM, BHR is oooold, and the Elgar HOS Encyclopaedia by Deal & Durepos is out!! Also: ScholarStack
Updates this week as we are heading into August: The Elgar Encyclopaedia of HOS is out and it is rich pickings! Even better, as HIO reader, Edward Elgar is giving you a substantial discount on the full price — read below. The provisional programme for the British Academy of Management History Subject Interest Group is out — do note it mentions speakers first, regardless of author order on full paper. (I am actually second author on both papers that I am presenting.) Finally, the granddaddy of business history journals is getting interviewed, or rather one of its editors-in-chief, Walter Friedman, is. If that is not enough summer reading for you, check out the ScholarStack directory. Enjoy!
Contents
Elgar Encyclopedia of Historical Organisation Studies now out!
Provisional BAM MBH schedule
BHR Centenary
ScholarStack by Helen Sword - A directory of scholarly writers on Substack
1. Elgar Encyclopedia of Historical Organisation Studies
Elgar Encyclopedias in Business and Management series
Edited by Nicholous M. Deal, Associate Professor of Management and Gabrielle Durepos, Professor of Organisation Studies, Department of Business and Tourism, Mount Saint Vincent University, Canada
Publication Date: 2026 ISBN: 978 1 03533 292 2 Extent: 566 pp
This comprehensive Encyclopedia provides a lexicon of the field of historical organisation studies, tracing its evolution from an emergent movement to an established community of practice. It brings together key concepts, research methods, philosophies, influential thinkers and major publication outlets that are shaping the growing discipline.
I am really pleased to have four co-authored entries and one single-authored entry in the Encyclopaedia:
11 Archival ethnography (Stephanie Decker and Alan McKinlay)
19 Business History [journal] (Stephanie Decker, Christina Lubinski, and Niall G. MacKenzie)
44 Digital archives (Adam Nix, David A. Kirsch, and Stephanie Decker)
64 Handbook of Historical Methods for Management (Stephanie Decker, William M. Foster, and Elena Giovannoni)
74 Historical imagination (Stephanie Decker)
For more information, click here.
Retails now at £265 for the hardback and £48 for individual e-book copies.
Exclusive discount of 35% for HIO readers — use discount code DEAL35 at checkout!
2. Provisional BAM MBH schedule
Presenters are mentioned first, with University affiliation, co-authors follow.
September 7 - Online Session (Virtual Day)
Costly Reversibility as Strategic Commitment: Infrastructure Finance in the British Empire, 1840s–1914
Yasser Alvi, University of Cambridge
September 9 - 2:00 PM-3:30 PM
Covert diplomatic strategies: multinational enterprises and democratic reversals Stephanie Decker, University of Birmingham, Marcelo Bucheli, Thomas DeBerge
The legacy of historical foreign occupation on modern corporate philanthropy Hailin Lu, University of Birmingham
The English Crown/State and the City of London in British West Africa: Longue durée, heterotopia and diplomatic relations, 1558-1820 Nelarine Cornelius, Queen Mary, University of London, Olusanmi Amujo, Ed Legon, Eric Pezet
September 9 - 5:00 PM-6:30 PM
Professional Life after a PhD in Business – Management History
Anna Spadavecchia, University of Strathclyde;
Akram Beniamin, University of Oxford;
Elenia Charalambous, Royal Holloway, University of London;
Adrian Cozmuta, University of Glasgow and Kyoto;
Shannon Harris, University of St Andrews;
Ian Jones, University of Sheffield
September 10 – 8:30-10:30 AM
Making Do and Moving On: Bricolage Dynamics and Strategic Renewal in Times of Prolonged Resource Scarcity Stephanie Decker, University of Birmingham, Guting Shen, Adam Nix
The Dark Side of Direct-Selling: Jacob Factor, Stanley Spiro and the ‘White-Collar Bandits’ of Interwar Britain Matthew Hollow, University of York
Building Rhetorical Histories: Examining How Strategic Organizational Narratives Are Constructed Nicholas Wong, Northumbria University
How Did US Biotech Startups Finance Their Innovation? Three Case Studies from the Dawn of the 1980s New High-Tech Era Viren Mahurkar, London School of Economics
September 10 – 1:30-3:00 PM
A Microhistory of Entrepreneurial Career Change Gerry Kerr, University of Windsor, Francine Schlosser
Building the Best Damn Airplane: Coopetition and the Making of an Entrepreneurial Ecosystem in Wichita, 1925-1945 Shannon Harris, University of St Andrews
September 10 – 5:00-6:30 PM
Love & the City: placing Romeo and Juliet in between history, arts, organizing and imagination Giulia Achilli, University of Birmingham, Elena Giovannoni, Alessandro Lai, Riccardo Stacchezzini
Institutional marginalisation of gold mining policy: The structural exclusion of local enterprises by a mining industry association Albert Acheampong, Anglia Ruskin University, Swetketu Patnaik, James Tuffour, Ayikoru Maureen
Negotiating Empire — HSBC, Transaction Costs, and Strategic Partnerships in Securing Railway Concessions in Semi-Colonial China, 1898–1911 Xinyu Li, University of Hull, Qing Lu
3. 100 Years of Business History Review: Q&A with Walter Friedman
This year marks the centennial of the Business History Review, a publication that has grown alongside Baker Library’s collections and helped establish business history as a field of study. We sat down with Walter Friedman, director of the Business History Initiative, lecturer, and the journal’s co-editor, to discuss the journal’s origins and its evolution alongside Harvard Business School.
https://www.hbs.edu/news/stories/business-history-review-100
4. ScholarStack! 📚
A compendium of Substack newsletters by, for, and about scholarly writers
This is a neat resource if you want to read more diverse and interesting writing with a scholarly background. I always think of Substack as a wildly unedited magazine covering everything. That can be fun and interesting, but also overwhelming. If you prefer a more focused approach to finding other academics writing in this space, ScholarStack by Helen Sword is a great place to start. It is in an opt-in directory, so by no means comprehensive, but it is definitely worth browse to find your next newsletter.
