Sources of Business History: The Archives of the Hudson's Bay Company

1980 ◽  
Vol 54 (3) ◽  
pp. 387-393
Author(s):  
John B. Davenport ◽  
Dan Rylance
Keyword(s):  
Business History ◽  
Hudson's Bay Company ◽  
Hudson’S Bay Company

scholarly journals Bay Days: The Managerial Revolutions and the Hudson’s Bay Company Department Stores, 1912‑1939

2006 ◽  
Vol 21 (1) ◽  
pp. 173-196 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Monod
Keyword(s):  
Business History ◽  
Scientific Management ◽  
American Business ◽  
Department Stores ◽  
Hudson's Bay Company ◽  
Large Measure ◽  
History Of ◽  
Business Structures ◽  
Marketing Methods ◽  
Hudson’S Bay Company

Abstract North American business history has long been dominated by a belief in the centrality of entrepreneurial innovation to corporate success. This paper looks at the history of the Hudson's Bay Company Stores Department and attempts to explain from within the traditional business-history framework the company's prolonged inability to create a profitable chain of department stores in Western Canada. During the interwar years the HBC was highly competitive in its marketing methods and up-to-date in its business structure. Indeed, the company's failure seems to have stemmed in large measure from these very factors, from its excessive reliance upon scientific management formulas and organizational theories. It was only during the Depression that the Bay was able to recoup its losses by moving away from the professional orthodoxies of the twenties, returning to older business structures, and deciding on a more consumer-oriented approach.

Industrial Experiments in the Wilderness: A Sidelight in the Business History of the Hudson's Bay Company

1958 ◽  
Vol 32 (4) ◽  
pp. 423-433
Author(s):  
Alvin C. Gluek
Keyword(s):  
Fur Trade ◽  
Business History ◽  
Trial And Error ◽  
American Continent ◽  
Hudson's Bay Company ◽  
North American Continent ◽  
The North ◽  
Industrial Experiments ◽  
History Of ◽  
Hudson’S Bay Company

Development of the North American continent was a halting process, characterized by use and misuse of latent opportunities. The Hudson's Bay Company, giant in fur trade and northern exploration, proved by trial and error experiments that abundant natural assets were not in themselves the magic key to wealth.

scholarly journals THE FREEZING OF INSECTS

1898 ◽  
Vol 30 (11) ◽  
pp. 287-288 ◽  
Author(s):  
Henry H. Lyman
Keyword(s):  
Hudson's Bay Company ◽  
Entomological Society ◽  
North West ◽  
Copper Mines ◽  
Hudson’S Bay Company

In the 22nd Report of the Entomological Society of Ontario, being that for 1891, there appeared a paper from my pen under the title “Can Insects Survive Freezing?”I have recently come across further records of observations upon this subject, and deem them of sufficient interest to be republished in the Canadian Entomologist.In looking over and interesting book of travels entitled “A Journey from Prince of Wales's Fort in Hudson's Bay to the Northern Ocean, undertaken by order of the Hudson's Bay Company for the discovery of copper mines, a north-west passage, etc., in the years 1769, 1770, 1771 and 1772, by Samuel Hearne,” published in 1796, I came across the following interesting notes on page 397

Hudson's Bay Company

1932 ◽  
Vol 18 (4) ◽  
pp. 562
Author(s):  
W. Ross Livingston ◽  
Robert E. Pinkerton
Keyword(s):  
Hudson's Bay Company ◽  
Hudson’S Bay Company
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