Viewing Corporations as Information Ecosystems: The Case of IBM, 1914–1980s

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-34
Author(s):  
JAMES W. CORTADA
Keyword(s):  
Corporate History ◽  
History Of

Corporations can be viewed as large information ecosystems, not more narrowly as corporate entities, and the author uses the example of IBM to defend this point. This essay illustrates issues and topics that can be studied to enhance understanding of corporate history, building on prior methods used by scholars. It builds on research the author performed in writing a history of IBM from the 1880s to the present.

Selling the Songbook

Jazz Bubble ◽  
2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dale Chapman
Keyword(s):  
Corporate Strategy ◽  
Music Industry ◽  
Corporate History ◽  
Commercial Viability ◽  
History Of

Chapter 3 addresses the corporate history of Verve Records, the erstwhile independent label founded by Norman Granz and subsequently acquired by PolyGram. The revitalization of the Verve legacy under the stewardship of PolyGram A&R executive Richard Seidel, beginning in the early 1980s, provides us with an intriguing window onto corporate strategy in the music industry at the height of the neoclassical jazz “boomlet”: what began as the jazz division’s effort to take advantage of PolyGram’s strengths in the marketing of classical records and back catalog soon expanded into a more ambitious strategy of new artist development, as Seidel sought to cultivate what Verve saw as the commercial viability of the “young lions” movement.

Selling the Storied Stone Crab: Eating, Ecology, and the Creation of South Florida Culture

2006 ◽  
Vol 6 (4) ◽  
pp. 32-43
Author(s):  
nicolaas mink
Keyword(s):  
Cultural History ◽  
Cultural Landscape ◽  
Regional Identity ◽  
South Florida ◽  
Massive Growth ◽  
Corporate History ◽  
Stone Crab ◽  
The Social ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Common

"Selling the Storied Stone Crab" examines the intersection between eating and the environment in South Florida using the stone crab, a highly-prized local delicacy, and the world-renowned restaurant that purportedly first began serving them, Joe's Stone Crab, as lenses through which to analyze regional identity, conceptions of place, and the social, cultural, generational and class distinctions that have arisen through consuming the crustacean over the twentieth-century. The work is both an institutional and corporate history of Joe's Stone Crab and an environmental and cultural history of the stone crab. In an area defined by striking transience, tourism, and massive growth, the essay argues that people envisioned themselves becoming indigenous to South Florida's unique natural and cultural landscape through the ingestion of a food that they believed could only be attained in the region. But the common perception that most gourmands hold--that the stone crab can only be procured in South Florida--is in itself a myth. The stone crab can be purchased worldwide, it is not strictly indigenous to South Florida, nor did Joe's Stone Crab first serve the decapod. Nevertheless, "Selling the Storied Stone Crab" concludes that these points are inconsequential for most visitors and residents who continue to relish both the crustacean's sweet meat and the myths that surround its eating.

J. Walter Thompson, the Good Neighbor Policy, and Lessons in Mexican Business Culture, 1920–1950

2004 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 254-280
Author(s):  
Julio E. Moreno
Keyword(s):  
World War Ii ◽  
Business Culture ◽  
Security Measures ◽  
Good Neighbor Policy ◽  
Local Conditions ◽  
The Great Depression ◽  
Corporate History ◽  
History Of ◽  
Good Neighbor

This article looks at the corporate history of J. Walter Thompson to examine the nature of U.S.-Mexican relations in the aftermath of the Great Depression and World War II. It contends that local conditions, along with a cadre of “progressive” Good Neighbor Policy diplomats, forced American companies to adopt the role of “commercial diplomats,” altering the nature of what, up to 1940, had been a tense and bitter binational relationship. The article shows how Thompson's role as a commercial diplomat changed its previous “capitalist missionary” approach and how it complemented American diplomacy, including national security measures to displace German commercial influence in Mexico during Word War II.

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