Paul J Miranti
Biographic Data
| ID | 1066445 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Paul J Miranti |
| GIVEN NAMES | Paul J |
| FAMILY NAME | Miranti |
| SIGNATURE | MIRANTI P J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 43 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 15 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1986 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Remembering Paul Miranti
A pioneer historian of finance and accounting
The Search for Order in Municipal Administration: Herman A. Metz and the New York City Experience, 1898–1909
This paper examines the administrative and accounting reforms coordinated by Herman A. Metz around the turn of the 20th century in New York City. Reform efforts were motivated by deficiencies in administering New York City's finances, including a lack of internal control over monetary resources and operational activities, and opaque financial reports. The activities of Comptroller Metz, who collaborated with institutions such as the New York Bure…
Information in an Industrial Culture: Walter A. Shewhart and the Evolution of the Control Chart, 1917–1954
This study analyzes the factors that shaped Walter Shewhart’s 1924 development of the control chart at Bell Telephone Laboratories. The control chart is a graphical construct that uses probability theory to analyze deviations from expected levels of performance within systems of repetitive action. Although Shewhart’s innovative use of probabilistic information focused on monitoring conformity to production standards in mass manufacturing, his bas…
Noise: Living and Trading in Electronic Finance by Alex Preda
Reviewed by: Noise: Living and Trading in Electronic Finance by Alex Preda Paul Miranti (bio) Noise: Living and Trading in Electronic Finance. By Alex Preda. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2017. Pp. 264. Paperback $35. In this brilliant study, Professor Alex Preda extends our understanding of the sociological significance of "noise trading," an important concept in financial economics advanced by Fischer Black in the 1980s. Black's term wa…
Marketing Shareholder Democracy in the Regions: Bell Telephone Securities, 1921–1935
This study widens the historical perspectives of how a firm coordinates its activities to simultaneously achieve financial and political ends while using regional efforts to enact a national strategy. It examines how AT&T organized Bell Telephone Securities (BTS), a transitional subsidiary during the period 1921–1935, to broaden ownership of corporate shares and to develop political and cultural identities with Bell among small investors, particu…
Innovation's Golden Triangle: Finance, Regulation, and Science at the Bell System, 1877–1940
This article explains how the Bell System succeeded during the presidency of Theodore N. Vail (1907–1919) in reversing a declining business trend by laying the foundations for sustained technological achievement through the development of an operating model that satisfied corporate imperatives related to finance, regulation, and research. By exploiting the potentials of rate-base regulation, Bell was able to create strong scientific capabilities …
Technology and Learning: Automating Odd-Lot Trading at the New York Stock Exchange, 1958-1976
This study analyzes how embedded beliefs about the proper ordering of financial market activities shaped the automation of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) during the period, 1958 to 1976. Specifically, it focuses on how technological innovation led to the unanticipated eclipse of its odd-lot dealer function, a unique niche for handling nonstandard trades of less than 100 shares. The decision to automate through computerization initially respon…
Chandler's Paths of Learning
In his last two major works, Inventing the Electronic Century and Shaping the Industrial Century , Alfred Chandler extended his well-known historical model put forth originally in Strategy and Structure, The Visible Hand , and Scale and Scope by drawing on insights from scholarship dealing with organizational learning and evolutionary economics. In the earlier works, he won high praise, as evinced by the awarding of the Bancroft and Pulitzer priz…
Global Knowledge Transfer and Telecommunications: The Bell System in Japan, 1945–1952
This study evaluates the Bell System's role in the revival of Japanese telecommunications during the post-World War II occupation. Civilian and military personnel who had worked for the firm and who served in the Civil Communications Service (CCS) of the Supreme Command Allied Powers represented the primary agents for knowledge transfer to Japan's Ministry of Communications (MOC) and its supporting independent equipment manufacturers. The MOC bec…
Corporate Learning and Traffic Management at the Bell System, 1900–1929: Probability Theory and the Evolution of Organizational Capabilities
This study analyzes the evolution of organizational capabilities for assessing market growth and capital budgeting in the traffic management operations of the Bell System from 1900 to 1929. The initial impetus for developing the complex procedures that were integrated into this process was the need to enhance firm competitiveness, particularly in response to the threats to its survival during the financial panic of 1907. The resultant new organiz…
Accountancy Comes of Age: The Development of an American Profession, 1886- 1940
Journal Article Accountancy Comes of Age: The Development of an American Profession, 1886–1940. By Paul J. Miranti, Jr. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1990. xii + 275 pp. $29.95.) Get access JoAnne Yates JoAnne Yates Massachusetts Institute of Technology Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 78, Issue 2, September 1991, Pages 690–691, https://doi.org/10.2307…
Accountancy Comes of Age
Accountancy Comes of Age: The Development of an American Profession, 1886-1940
The Mind's Eye of Reform: The ICC's Bureau of Statistics and Accounts and a Vision of Regulation, 1887–1940
By examining the relationship between measurement and regulation at the Interstate Commerce Commission between 1887 and 1940, the following article sheds light on a little-studied component of the commission's work. It argues that the nature of the accounting and statistical tools used by the ICC had an impact on the regulatory process, specifically that the difficulties encountered in the development of accurate and relevant railroad statistics …
Associationalism, Statism, and Professional Regulation: Public Accountants and the Reform of the Financial Markets, 1896-1940
In this article Projessor Miranti contrasts the differing reactions of leaders in the public accounting profession to the structure of national economic regulation that emerged in America during the first decades of the twentieth century. Specifically, he focuses on the actions taken by two national professional organizations, the American Association of Public Accountants and its successor, the American Institute of Accountants, at two important…
The Mind's Eye of Reform: The ICC's Bureau of Statistics and Accounts and a Vision of Regulation, 1887–1940
By examining the relationship between measurement and regulation at the Interstate Commerce Commission between 1887 and 1940, the following article sheds light on a little-studied component of the commission's work. It argues that the nature of the accounting and statistical tools used by the ICC had an impact on the regulatory process, specifically that the difficulties encountered in the development of accurate and relevant railroad statistics …
Associationalism, Statism, and Professional Regulation: Public Accountants and the Reform of the Financial Markets, 1896-1940
In this article Projessor Miranti contrasts the differing reactions of leaders in the public accounting profession to the structure of national economic regulation that emerged in America during the first decades of the twentieth century. Specifically, he focuses on the actions taken by two national professional organizations, the American Association of Public Accountants and its successor, the American Institute of Accountants, at two important…
Corporate Learning and Traffic Management at the Bell System, 1900–1929: Probability Theory and the Evolution of Organizational Capabilities
This study analyzes the evolution of organizational capabilities for assessing market growth and capital budgeting in the traffic management operations of the Bell System from 1900 to 1929. The initial impetus for developing the complex procedures that were integrated into this process was the need to enhance firm competitiveness, particularly in response to the threats to its survival during the financial panic of 1907. The resultant new organiz…
Accountancy Comes of Age: The Development of an American Profession, 1886- 1940
Journal Article Accountancy Comes of Age: The Development of an American Profession, 1886–1940. By Paul J. Miranti, Jr. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1990. xii + 275 pp. $29.95.) Get access JoAnne Yates JoAnne Yates Massachusetts Institute of Technology Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 78, Issue 2, September 1991, Pages 690–691, https://doi.org/10.2307…
Technology and Learning: Automating Odd-Lot Trading at the New York Stock Exchange, 1958-1976
This study analyzes how embedded beliefs about the proper ordering of financial market activities shaped the automation of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) during the period, 1958 to 1976. Specifically, it focuses on how technological innovation led to the unanticipated eclipse of its odd-lot dealer function, a unique niche for handling nonstandard trades of less than 100 shares. The decision to automate through computerization initially respon…
Chandler's Paths of Learning
In his last two major works, Inventing the Electronic Century and Shaping the Industrial Century , Alfred Chandler extended his well-known historical model put forth originally in Strategy and Structure, The Visible Hand , and Scale and Scope by drawing on insights from scholarship dealing with organizational learning and evolutionary economics. In the earlier works, he won high praise, as evinced by the awarding of the Bancroft and Pulitzer priz…
Associationalism, Statism, and Professional Regulation: Public Accountants and the Reform of the Financial Markets, 1896-1940
In this article Projessor Miranti contrasts the differing reactions of leaders in the public accounting profession to the structure of national economic regulation that emerged in America during the first decades of the twentieth century. Specifically, he focuses on the actions taken by two national professional organizations, the American Association of Public Accountants and its successor, the American Institute of Accountants, at two important…
The Mind's Eye of Reform: The ICC's Bureau of Statistics and Accounts and a Vision of Regulation, 1887–1940
By examining the relationship between measurement and regulation at the Interstate Commerce Commission between 1887 and 1940, the following article sheds light on a little-studied component of the commission's work. It argues that the nature of the accounting and statistical tools used by the ICC had an impact on the regulatory process, specifically that the difficulties encountered in the development of accurate and relevant railroad statistics …
Accountancy Comes of Age: The Development of an American Profession, 1886- 1940
Journal Article Accountancy Comes of Age: The Development of an American Profession, 1886–1940. By Paul J. Miranti, Jr. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1990. xii + 275 pp. $29.95.) Get access JoAnne Yates JoAnne Yates Massachusetts Institute of Technology Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 78, Issue 2, September 1991, Pages 690–691, https://doi.org/10.2307…
Accountancy Comes of Age
Accountancy Comes of Age: The Development of an American Profession, 1886-1940
Corporate Learning and Traffic Management at the Bell System, 1900–1929: Probability Theory and the Evolution of Organizational Capabilities
This study analyzes the evolution of organizational capabilities for assessing market growth and capital budgeting in the traffic management operations of the Bell System from 1900 to 1929. The initial impetus for developing the complex procedures that were integrated into this process was the need to enhance firm competitiveness, particularly in response to the threats to its survival during the financial panic of 1907. The resultant new organiz…
Global Knowledge Transfer and Telecommunications: The Bell System in Japan, 1945–1952
This study evaluates the Bell System's role in the revival of Japanese telecommunications during the post-World War II occupation. Civilian and military personnel who had worked for the firm and who served in the Civil Communications Service (CCS) of the Supreme Command Allied Powers represented the primary agents for knowledge transfer to Japan's Ministry of Communications (MOC) and its supporting independent equipment manufacturers. The MOC bec…
Chandler's Paths of Learning
In his last two major works, Inventing the Electronic Century and Shaping the Industrial Century , Alfred Chandler extended his well-known historical model put forth originally in Strategy and Structure, The Visible Hand , and Scale and Scope by drawing on insights from scholarship dealing with organizational learning and evolutionary economics. In the earlier works, he won high praise, as evinced by the awarding of the Bancroft and Pulitzer priz…
Technology and Learning: Automating Odd-Lot Trading at the New York Stock Exchange, 1958-1976
This study analyzes how embedded beliefs about the proper ordering of financial market activities shaped the automation of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) during the period, 1958 to 1976. Specifically, it focuses on how technological innovation led to the unanticipated eclipse of its odd-lot dealer function, a unique niche for handling nonstandard trades of less than 100 shares. The decision to automate through computerization initially respon…
Innovation's Golden Triangle: Finance, Regulation, and Science at the Bell System, 1877–1940
This article explains how the Bell System succeeded during the presidency of Theodore N. Vail (1907–1919) in reversing a declining business trend by laying the foundations for sustained technological achievement through the development of an operating model that satisfied corporate imperatives related to finance, regulation, and research. By exploiting the potentials of rate-base regulation, Bell was able to create strong scientific capabilities …
Marketing Shareholder Democracy in the Regions: Bell Telephone Securities, 1921–1935
This study widens the historical perspectives of how a firm coordinates its activities to simultaneously achieve financial and political ends while using regional efforts to enact a national strategy. It examines how AT&T organized Bell Telephone Securities (BTS), a transitional subsidiary during the period 1921–1935, to broaden ownership of corporate shares and to develop political and cultural identities with Bell among small investors, particu…
Information in an Industrial Culture: Walter A. Shewhart and the Evolution of the Control Chart, 1917–1954
This study analyzes the factors that shaped Walter Shewhart’s 1924 development of the control chart at Bell Telephone Laboratories. The control chart is a graphical construct that uses probability theory to analyze deviations from expected levels of performance within systems of repetitive action. Although Shewhart’s innovative use of probabilistic information focused on monitoring conformity to production standards in mass manufacturing, his bas…
Noise: Living and Trading in Electronic Finance by Alex Preda
Reviewed by: Noise: Living and Trading in Electronic Finance by Alex Preda Paul Miranti (bio) Noise: Living and Trading in Electronic Finance. By Alex Preda. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2017. Pp. 264. Paperback $35. In this brilliant study, Professor Alex Preda extends our understanding of the sociological significance of "noise trading," an important concept in financial economics advanced by Fischer Black in the 1980s. Black's term wa…
The Search for Order in Municipal Administration: Herman A. Metz and the New York City Experience, 1898–1909
This paper examines the administrative and accounting reforms coordinated by Herman A. Metz around the turn of the 20th century in New York City. Reform efforts were motivated by deficiencies in administering New York City's finances, including a lack of internal control over monetary resources and operational activities, and opaque financial reports. The activities of Comptroller Metz, who collaborated with institutions such as the New York Bure…
Remembering Paul Miranti
A pioneer historian of finance and accounting
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