Entrepreneurial Studies in Japan: An Introduction

1970 ◽  
Vol 44 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-12 ◽  
Author(s):  
Henry Rosovsky ◽  
Kozo Yamamura
Keyword(s):  
Recent Work ◽  
Economic History ◽  
Business Organization ◽  
Japanese History ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Managerial Practices ◽  
Scholarly Attention

Where are the Rockefellers, Carnegies, and Fords of recent Japanese history? Their absence may be explained by a lack of scholarly attention to the areas of entrepreneurship, business organization, and managerial practices. Professors Rosovsky and Yamamura review the historiography of Japan's industrialization and place the five articles in this special issue within the context of recent work in business and economic history.

scholarly journals Afterword: Citizenship and the politics of (im)material stigma and infrastructure

Urban Studies ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 004209802110553
Author(s):  
Charlotte Lemanski
Keyword(s):  
Recent Work ◽  
Urban Studies ◽  
Significant Contribution ◽  
The State ◽  
Political Rights ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Infrastructure Health

This afterword to the Urban Vulnerabilities: Infrastructure, Health and Stigma special issue highlights two cross-cutting themes that are addressed by all the articles in the issue, and that have the potential to make a significant contribution to debates within urban studies. First, I reflect on how the articles reveal the inseparable connections between infrastructure and stigma, demonstrating both as political and material processes that are inter-dependent and mutually constitutive. Consequently, it is urgent to bridge disciplinary siloes in bringing these scholarly debates into deeper conversation in ways that recognise the materiality of stigma and the politicisation of infrastructure (and vice versa). Second, to a greater and lesser extent, the articles all reveal the centrality of citizenship to the capacity of both urban dwellers and the state to negotiate and/or restrict access to infrastructure, and to perpetuate and/or challenge the impacts of stigma. While the connections between infrastructure and citizenship are explored in my recent work on infrastructural citizenship, the articles in this collection demonstrate the importance of temporality and scale in understanding how citizens negotiate their material and political rights.

Early American Family and Legal History: New Ideas

2004 ◽  
Vol 34 (3) ◽  
pp. 435-440 ◽  
Author(s):  
Russell R. Menard
Keyword(s):  
Family History ◽  
Recent Work ◽  
Economic History ◽  
Legal History ◽  
Violent Conflict ◽  
American Family ◽  
Early American ◽  
New Ideas ◽  
Family Reconstitution ◽  
The 1960S

Recent work about the method of family reconstitution and economic history raises serious doubts about the demographic and economic premises that underlie much of the existing scholarship about early American family history. As a result, early American family history—one of the new social history's crowning achievements during the 1960s—is now in disarray. Some scholars see the new microhistorical studies of the colonial family as an effort to sidestep these difficulties by ignoring demographic and materialist perspectives. However, such cultural approaches may well intensify the crisis by challenging the image of the early American family as a loving institution incapable of violent conflict.

The Entrepreneur and Cultural Values: Recent Work in British Economic History

1988 ◽  
Vol 42 (4) ◽  
pp. 231
Author(s):  
Joyce Senders Pedersen ◽  
Francois Crouzet ◽  
Bernard Elbaum ◽  
William Lazonick ◽  
Neil McKendrick ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Values ◽  
Recent Work ◽  
Economic History

The Plantation States as a Sub-Region of the Post-Bellum South

1974 ◽  
Vol 34 (3) ◽  
pp. 732-738 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jay R. Mandle
Keyword(s):  
Recent Work ◽  
Black Population ◽  
Census Bureau ◽  
The South ◽  
Relative Poverty ◽  
Homogeneous Section ◽  
Functional Units ◽  
Work Done ◽  
Scholarly Attention

Recent work by Reid, Higgs, Sutch and Ransom and others is an indication that increasing scholarly attention is being addressed to the post-bellum southern economy. The object of this note is to raise a word of caution with respect to work done on the South in which the latter is taken to mean a more or less homogeneous section of the nation. In particular I would suggest that (a) substantial and important variations exist within this region, differences which may even be obscured when the South is divided along the usual Bureau of the Census sub-regional borders, and (b) a disaggregation of the South into more functional units than that of the Census Bureau may provide insights into the relative poverty experienced in the region, particularly of the black population in this area in the years before 1910.

Beyond Racism: The Story of Prakash Tandon and Unilever India

2014 ◽  
Vol 88 (1) ◽  
pp. 177-185
Author(s):  
Jaithirth Rao
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Social History ◽  
Economic History ◽  
Political History ◽  
The State ◽  
Business Leaders ◽  
Business History ◽  
Special Issue

The noted British historian G. M. Trevelyan observed that “without social history, economic history is barren and political history is unintelligible.” The autobiographical volumes of Prakash Tandon, one of twentieth-century India's great business leaders, have been hailed as extremely important works of social history. The Times Literary Supplement had this to say about Tandon's Beyond Punjab (1971): “Everyone who is interested in factors which have shaped India today should read this book.” But business historians have rarely cited Tandon's work. This is not entirely surprising, given the state of business history in India. Apart from a few scholars, including Dwijendra Tripathi and the authors in this special issue of Business History Review, research on business history has been limited. To some extent, politics has been the all-consuming passion in India. Yet Tandon's work contains remarkable insights into important aspects of business history, both in India and globally.

Scottish Economic History: Recent Work

Economica ◽  
1964 ◽  
Vol 31 (123) ◽  
pp. 296
Author(s):  
S. G. Checkland
Keyword(s):  
Recent Work ◽  
Economic History

Finding Good Places to Work and Live: Contemporary Contexts and Ways Forward

2011 ◽  
Vol 25 (3) ◽  
pp. 541-549 ◽  
Author(s):  
David McKie
Keyword(s):  
Public Relations ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Organizational Rhetoric ◽  
Good Society ◽  
Social Agenda ◽  
Foundational Work ◽  
Scholarly Attention

This special issue builds on foundational work to set an enlarged social agenda for external organizational rhetoric. After considering possible limits to the broadening of such rhetoric, it analyzes the redirection of scholarly attention, which is essentially concerned with the good organization’s potential to contribute to the good society. It notes how this has been, out of necessity, accompanied by a territorial extension of contextual, geographical, and temporal frames that expand the approaches of internal rhetoric and mainstream public relations.

Special issue on English intensifiers

2008 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 213-219 ◽  
Author(s):  
BELÉN MÉNDEZ-NAYA
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Early Modern ◽  
Social Groups ◽  
Semantic Change ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Early Modern English ◽  
Grammatical Change ◽  
Degree Modifiers ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Scholarly Attention

Degree modifiers, degree words or intensifiers are linguistic elements which convey the degree or the exact value of the quality expressed by the item they modify. They are typically adverbs, as in very hot, really interesting, greatly appreciate or completely absurd, but adjectives may also fulfil this function, as in utter nonsense. As noted by Bolinger (1972: 18), degree words offer a picture of ‘fevered invention’, and without any doubt constitute one of the major areas of grammatical change and renewal in English (Brinton & Arnovik 2006: 441), especially from the Early Modern English period onwards (Peters 1993). It is therefore no surprise that degree modifiers have attracted so much scholarly attention from the beginning of the twentieth century to the present day. Pioneering studies, such as those by Stoffel (1901), Borst (1902) and Fettig (1934), provide comprehensive inventories of intensifying adverbs in both modern and earlier English, as well as valuable insights into how they originated. In the last decade, however, intensifiers have become the object of renewed interest; this can be attributed in part to the development of computerized corpora, and also to advances in theoretical linguistics, more specifically in the study of semantic change and of grammaticalization processes. This renewed interest has focused, for example, on the individual histories of particular degree items as seen from the perspective of grammaticalization, on the competition of different intensifiers within a given period and across time, and on their distribution across different social groups, varieties or registers.

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