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Management history is a scholarly endeavor which concerns itself with the investigation of the development of management thought and of managerial practice. It therefore sits in sympathetic (in principle) but uneasy (in reality) relationship with contiguous and overlapping fields such as business history, economic history, accounting history, the history of economics, and marketing history, among others. There is no satisfactory or broadly accepted statement of these fields’ domain boundaries, and any treatment is necessarily idiosyncratic. In contrast to related fields in business and economic history (and so on), management history is relatively sparsely served by scholarly associations and publication outlets. The Academy of Management established a Division of Management History in 1971 (later and currently the Management History Division), but this remains one of the smallest groupings in that institution. No domain-specific journals existed until 1994, with the establishment of the Journal of Management History ( JMH ). This was merged with Management Decision in 2001 and became a subsection of that journal – itself not at all historical in orientation – with the title “Focus on Management History.” However, prospects for the field seem to be improving in this respect, with the demerger and relaunching of JMH currently planned, and a new journal, Management and Organizational ... log in or subscribe to read full text