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On capitalism, business networks, and entreprencurship
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- Commercial networks; |
- Western capitalism development process; |
- Forms of management and business that structure governance; |
- Central analysis in the western context of Europe and the USA. |
| - Family business; |
- Commercial partnerships tha expand the market; |
- Market and trade in a comparative focus between countries; |
- Predominance of macro factors as opposed to the micro context; |
| - Institutional arrangements; |
- Institutional environment that favors entrepreneurship and commercial expansion. |
- Institutional structures that influenced market integration. |
- Lack of comparative studies that show distinctions from regional markets. |
| - Entrepreneurial field; |
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| - History of capitalism; |
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| - Governance networks. |
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About strategies, investments, and internationalization
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- Business life eyele; |
- Business communities and the list of (de) investmentsin the market; |
- Factors that promote investment and divestment of multinational companies in regional markets; |
- Analyzes excessively focused on "M" companies; |
| - Chandlerian paradigm; |
- Business internationalization and business mutuality |
- Organizational capabilities that drive business internationalization |
- Option for the case study as a research strategy; |
| - Multinational companies |
- Are new business stratrgies the result of altered organizational structuras? |
- Companies' life eyele ande control of asynetric information |
- Statistical analysis and "T" hypotesis testing as a priority; |
| - transactional Commerce; |
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- Evidence discrepancies in the causal relationship between structure and strategy. |
| - Foreign direct investment; |
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| - Theory of business internationalization |
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About regulatory systems and commercial law
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- Legal systems and financial regulation; |
- Government regulatory pressures on the market. |
- Legislative changes and opportunities for commercial growth; |
- Lack of historical analysis between legislative systems in different countries; |
| - Socio-legal organization and responsabilities. |
- Legislative system and taxes; |
- Regulation and market strtegies as competitive advantages; |
- Absence of analysis of the effects of regulation on the development of the retail market; |
| - Political agenda and market impact. |
- (De)regulation and changes in the behavior of companies; |
- Convergence between government regulation and business actions. |
- Little attention on company mergers and political-legal influence. |
| - Business regulation and adaptation. |
- Regulatory capture and corporate mergers. |
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On historiography, method, and historical sources
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- Preservation of archives, historiography, and the historian; |
- Archives between neutrality and historical realism; |
- Expansion of the concept of archives beyond textual and official sources; |
- Little exchange between qualitative and quantitative methods. |
| - Varieties of quantitative and qualitative methods; |
- Commissioned history and methodological implications; |
- Various interpretative or statistical approaches; |
- Difficulty in accessing historical data and information; |
| - Documented history and marginalized issues; |
- The silence caused by the official archives and the history of marginalized groups; |
- Transparency in the construction of the argument based on historical sources; |
- Weak interdisciplinary engagement between historiographic approaches; |
| - Polyphonic historical studies; |
- How to expand the analysis of the past in different versions of history; |
- treatment of data and historical information by researchers; |
- Tendency to anachronism and limited perception of the past. |
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- Causal relationship between historical events; |
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On the critical approach, historical narratives and memories
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- Utilitarian business strategies from the past; |
- Strategic use of memories, narratives, and history in business management; |
- Benefits of cultural and narrative vision as a historiographical approach; |
- Excessive relativization of the past and history; |
| - Institutional arangements and symbolic forms of representation of the past; |
- Characteristics of creating collective identity in the value of the business; |
- Increase in interviews as a method of oral history; |
- Limitations of the oral history approach; |
| - Narratives and organizational identity; |
- Historical narratives and traditions invented as the basis for unequal power relations; |
- Criticizes the utilitarian view of the past and the conscious manipulation of historical narratives; |
- Criticism of scientificity in the elaboration of the argument and empirical evidence; |
| - The role of history and traditions in organizations. |
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- Memory assets, history, and specific narratives; |
- Wide scope of analytical inferences in research |
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- Not so clear paradigmatic limits. |
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On management, work, and managerial ideologies
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- Management and Administration as a discipline in education; |
- Changes, differences, and similarities in management in organizations in time and space; |
- Rescue of assumptions and key concepts in the management and administration area; |
- Analysis method with an excessive focus on the priodization of history; |
| - Rescue of classics thinkers; |
- Management practices, organizational problems, and work coordination; |
- Application and limits of managerial ideologies in disparate socioeconomic contexts; |
- Strong need to demonstrate the contemporary relevance of information obtained from the past; |
| - Work organizational and management; |
- Modernization of management, human nature, and managerial behavior. |
- Organization history, valuation, and knowledge production. |
- Difficult defining the management area as a clear and unified scientific field of research. |
| - Authority and control processes in organizations. |
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