Michael Heller
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 3596936 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Michael Heller |
| NOMBRES | Michael |
| APELLIDO | Heller |
| FIRMA | HELLER M |
| AFILIACIONES | Brunel University of London |
| ORCID | 0009-0007-3299-1047 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 37 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 213 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 35 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 1 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1976 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 5 |
Marking history and making history
Reframing the past
This introduction positions microhistory as a promising and underexplored analytical orientation within management and organizational history. Emerging in response to the homogenizing tendencies of macrohistorical grand narratives, microhistory foregrounds contingency, contradiction, and agency through a methodological reduction of scale and a close reading of marginal or fragmented sources. While recent scholarship in business and organization s…
The very latest, modom’
Content marketing involves the production of creative content by organisations to engage and develop relations with consumers. It has been practiced since at least the eighteenth century. Despite its longevity, there has been no detailed historical study of content marketing. This article seeks to fill this lacuna by examining the use of content marketing by the British gas industry in the interwar period (1918–1939). During this period, the gas …
Can contract emancipate? contract theory and the law of work
Contract and employment law have grown apart. Long ago, each side gave up on the other. In this Article, we reunite them to the betterment of both. In brief, we demonstrate the emancipatory potential of contract for the law of work. Today, the dominant contract theories assume a widget transaction between substantively equal parties. If this were an accurate description of what contract is, then contract law would be right to expel workers. Worke…
Autonomy for Contract, Refined
In ‘The Choice Theory of Contracts’, we advance a claim about the centrality of autonomy to contract. Since publishing Choice Theory , we have engaged dozens of reviews and responses; here, we reply to Robert Stevens, Arthur Ripstein, and Brian Bix. All this rigorous debate confirms for us one core point: contract’s ultimate value must be autonomy, properly understood and refined. Autonomy is the telos of contract and its grounding principle. In …
Coda
This essay focuses on Duncan’s Tribunals: Passages 31-35, originally published as a separate chapbook in 1970, and the prose surrounding it, such as the earlier “The Sweetness and Greatness of Dante’s Divine Comedy” of 1964, as a central focus of the struggle of Duncan’s war with and for form, the site of risk, undoing and resolution. The “war” in which he is a protagonist most often wrestling with himself but also with the cultural and political…
Reclaiming the heterogeneity of the Arab states
Purpose This paper addresses the clustering of several Arab states on Hofstede's national culture dimensions and its implications for international firms targeting the Middle East and North African (MENA) region. It is imperative to distinguish the region's various national cultures, in order to enable enhanced segmenting strategies. The authors argue that reexamining the Arab states' national cultures can provide interested firms with a better u…
The British house magazine 1945 to 2015
This article examines the history of British house magazines from 1945 to 2015. It discusses their content, audience and function within companies. From tools of internal public relations, house magazines switched to being used as mediums of industrial relations in the 1960s and 1970s, and by the late 1980s were increasingly applied to the creation of corporate identity, organisational culture and internal marketing. They were also forced to acco…
The Many Facets of National Culture
Due to its wide usage in vast fields of study, there is a lack of studies synthesizing the many aspects of national culture theory. The authors argue that given the proliferation of national culture theories in various disciplines, the need to integrate and provide an analytical review is fundamental for further research. As such, they have reviewed 110 empirical and conceptual studies on the concept of national culture and recounted the differen…
A bittersweet past
In this article, we call for increased focus on the historicity of corporate heritage brands, emphasizing that perceptions of the past in the present do change as time goes by. Building on the idea of corporate brand historicity, we introduce the notion of “Negative Heritage Brand Equity” to capture the historically contingent downside potentially associated with corporate heritage brands. We use the Danish consumer-cooperative COOP as an exempla…
Orpheus unglued
In the late 1980s, sound archivists discovered that many of their tapes were crumbling into dust. A condition known as sticky shed syndrome was causing several tape stocks from the 1970s to grow unstable, due to a problem with the adhesive binding that affixed the magnetic oxide to its polyester backing. In the worst cases, an affected tape would literally shed off its oxide the moment it was played, irrevocably destroying the item. Although pres…
Foucault, Discourse, and the Birth of British Public Relations
This article analyzes the emergence of public relations among corporations in interwar Britain. It adopts a discursive approach and applies the philosophy of Michel Foucault. It argues that public relations was a result of state propaganda during World War I, the emergence of a mass-media society, and criticism from a range of groups toward corporations during the period. It acted as an emergent institutional text, which taught corporations how t…
The development of integrated marketing communications at the British General Post Office, 1931–39
In the 1930s, the General Post Office (GPO) in Great Britain became one of the nation's most innovative pioneers of marketing communication.Following criticism of the organisation in the 1920s for its conservative use of publicity, the GPO embarked upon a series of creative publicity campaigns that applied, amongst other methods, advertising, public relations, promotions, cinema, events and artistic posters.Through an overview of its publicity, a…
London Clerical Workers, 1880–1914
This study is based on a wide range of business sources as well as newspapers, journals, novels and oral history, allowing Heller to put forward a new interpretation of working conditions for London clerks, highlighting the ways in which clerical work changed and modernized over this period.
Between silence and pain
As an axiomatic condition of sound, loudness is implicated at all levels of aural perception. Ever in contest, loudness asserts its importance in noise ordinances and stage whispers, on the battlefield and by the infant's bedside. Yet despite its pervasiveness, loudness remains among the least-analyzed components of the sonic encounter. Focusing on musical applications and listener accounts, this article considers the role of loudness as a genera…
Always In Trouble
Salaries and promotion opportunities in the English banking industry, 1890–1936
The article is a rejoinder to Andrew J. Seltzer's article, published in Business History in August 2010, which critiqued an article published in May 2008 on the topic of clerical salaries in London, 1870–1914. It examines trends in salaries and promotions of branch clerks at the London, County and Westminster Bank and at the National Provincial Bank, and focuses on the London area for the period 1880–1913. It argues that salaries increased betwee…
Emotional Brain Revisited
Suburbia, marketing and stakeholders
This article examines the development and marketing of suburbia through a case-study of the suburb of Ilford, Essex, between 1880 and 1914. It discusses how Ilford positioned itself, the white-collar clerical workers it targeted, its principal developers and the marketing and development strategies it pursued. It is argued that Ilford achieved success through a comprehensive and integrated marketing strategy which involved a policy of clear posit…
The Tragedy of the Anticommons
This article gives a concise introduction to the ‘tragedy of the anticommons.’ The anticommons thesis is simple: when too many people own pieces of one thing, nobody can use it. Usually, private ownership creates wealth. But too much ownership has the opposite effect – it leads to wasteful underuse. This is a free market paradox that shows up all across the global economy. If too many owners control a single resource, cooperation breaks down, wea…
Philosophy in Science
Infinity
This interdisciplinary study of infinity explores the concept through the prism of mathematics and then offers more expansive investigations in areas beyond mathematical boundaries to reflect the broader, deeper implications of infinity for human intellectual thought. More than a dozen world-renowned researchers in the fields of mathematics, physics, cosmology, philosophy and theology offer a rich intellectual exchange among various current viewp…
Global Warming Gridlock
Global warming is one of today's greatest challenges. The science of climate change leaves no doubt that policies to cut emissions are overdue. Yet, after twenty years of international talks and treaties, the world is now in gridlock about how best to do this. David Victor argues that such gridlock has arisen because international talks have drifted away from the reality of what countries are willing and able to implement at home. Most of the les…
Philosophy in Science
Freud on Madison Avenue
Freud on Madison Avenue: motivation research and subliminal advertising in America, by Lawrence R. Samuel, Philadelphia and Oxford, University of Pennsylvania Press, 2010, 232 pp., £19.50 (hardback
The Tragedy of the Anticommons
1 Bob Ellickson and I developed and co-taught "From Marx to Markets
Between silence and pain
As an axiomatic condition of sound, loudness is implicated at all levels of aural perception. Ever in contest, loudness asserts its importance in noise ordinances and stage whispers, on the battlefield and by the infant's bedside. Yet despite its pervasiveness, loudness remains among the least-analyzed components of the sonic encounter. Focusing on musical applications and listener accounts, this article considers the role of loudness as a genera…
Sport, bureaucracies and London clerks 1880–1939
From the late nineteenth century a number of large-scale bureaucracies appeared in Britain, employing hundreds and sometimes thousands of clerical workers. An interesting feature of most of these bodies was a generous provision of sponsored sport for their employees. Examining a number of major employers of clerical workers in London between 1880 and 1939, this article will ask why sport was provided on such a large scale, what benefits it offere…
Work, income and stability
The article questions the view that the economic position of male clerical workers in London was deteriorating over the period 1870–1914. It is generally accepted that clerical work for men suffered a downturn due to the impact of the Second Industrial Revolution which transformed office work as a result of the application of technology, the introduction of a female workforce, rational working practices and the rise of large-scale, complex bureau…
British Company Magazines, 1878–1939
In the 1880s company magazines began to appear in large-scale British organizations. By the 1930s almost every corporation had one. Based on business archives and using a combination of business and media history, this article attempts to map the rise and spread of the company magazine. At the same time, it examines the organizational roles and functions of this media. Company magazines came to perform a number of important roles within large-sca…
The Tragedy of the Anticommons
This article gives a concise introduction to the ‘tragedy of the anticommons.’ The anticommons thesis is simple: when too many people own pieces of one thing, nobody can use it. Usually, private ownership creates wealth. But too much ownership has the opposite effect – it leads to wasteful underuse. This is a free market paradox that shows up all across the global economy. If too many owners control a single resource, cooperation breaks down, wea…
Company magazines 1880–1940
This introduction performs three functions. It provides a historiography within which to site company magazines in Britain and United States between 1880–1940, it briefly examines the history and functions of these journals and it summarizes the articles found in this special edition. In relation to historiography, it argues that while research on the subject is sparse, the study of company magazines should be located in a much wider field of his…
Reclaiming the heterogeneity of the Arab states
Purpose This paper addresses the clustering of several Arab states on Hofstede's national culture dimensions and its implications for international firms targeting the Middle East and North African (MENA) region. It is imperative to distinguish the region's various national cultures, in order to enable enhanced segmenting strategies. The authors argue that reexamining the Arab states' national cultures can provide interested firms with a better u…
Salaries and promotion opportunities in the English banking industry, 1890–1936
The article is a rejoinder to Andrew J. Seltzer's article, published in Business History in August 2010, which critiqued an article published in May 2008 on the topic of clerical salaries in London, 1870–1914. It examines trends in salaries and promotions of branch clerks at the London, County and Westminster Bank and at the National Provincial Bank, and focuses on the London area for the period 1880–1913. It argues that salaries increased betwee…
The National Insurance Acts 1911-1947, the Approved Societies and the Prudential Assurance Company
The role of the British major life assurance companies in administering the National Insurance Acts in the guise of approved societies has long been controversial. The companies have been accused of profiteering rather than civic duty or social altruism. This article, using the Prudential Assurance Company as a case study, questions this argument. Life assurance companies such as the Prudential were fundamental to the operational running of natio…
Suburbia, marketing and stakeholders
This article examines the development and marketing of suburbia through a case-study of the suburb of Ilford, Essex, between 1880 and 1914. It discusses how Ilford positioned itself, the white-collar clerical workers it targeted, its principal developers and the marketing and development strategies it pursued. It is argued that Ilford achieved success through a comprehensive and integrated marketing strategy which involved a policy of clear posit…
A bittersweet past
In this article, we call for increased focus on the historicity of corporate heritage brands, emphasizing that perceptions of the past in the present do change as time goes by. Building on the idea of corporate brand historicity, we introduce the notion of “Negative Heritage Brand Equity” to capture the historically contingent downside potentially associated with corporate heritage brands. We use the Danish consumer-cooperative COOP as an exempla…
Foucault, Discourse, and the Birth of British Public Relations
This article analyzes the emergence of public relations among corporations in interwar Britain. It adopts a discursive approach and applies the philosophy of Michel Foucault. It argues that public relations was a result of state propaganda during World War I, the emergence of a mass-media society, and criticism from a range of groups toward corporations during the period. It acted as an emergent institutional text, which taught corporations how t…
The development of integrated marketing communications at the British General Post Office, 1931–39
In the 1930s, the General Post Office (GPO) in Great Britain became one of the nation's most innovative pioneers of marketing communication.Following criticism of the organisation in the 1920s for its conservative use of publicity, the GPO embarked upon a series of creative publicity campaigns that applied, amongst other methods, advertising, public relations, promotions, cinema, events and artistic posters.Through an overview of its publicity, a…
The British house magazine 1945 to 2015
This article examines the history of British house magazines from 1945 to 2015. It discusses their content, audience and function within companies. From tools of internal public relations, house magazines switched to being used as mediums of industrial relations in the 1960s and 1970s, and by the late 1980s were increasingly applied to the creation of corporate identity, organisational culture and internal marketing. They were also forced to acco…
The Many Facets of National Culture
Due to its wide usage in vast fields of study, there is a lack of studies synthesizing the many aspects of national culture theory. The authors argue that given the proliferation of national culture theories in various disciplines, the need to integrate and provide an analytical review is fundamental for further research. As such, they have reviewed 110 empirical and conceptual studies on the concept of national culture and recounted the differen…
Objurgations
In the Builded Place
With a Telescope in the Sangre de Cristos
Can Patents Deter Innovation? The Anticommons in Biomedical Research
The “tragedy of the commons” metaphor helps explain why people overuse shared resources. However, the recent proliferation of intellectual property rights in biomedical research suggests a different tragedy, an “anticommons” in which people underuse scarce resources because too many owners can block each other. Privatization of biomedical research must be more carefully deployed to sustain both upstream research and downstream product development…
The Tragedy of the Anticommons
1 Bob Ellickson and I developed and co-taught "From Marx to Markets
The National Insurance Acts 1911-1947, the Approved Societies and the Prudential Assurance Company
The role of the British major life assurance companies in administering the National Insurance Acts in the guise of approved societies has long been controversial. The companies have been accused of profiteering rather than civic duty or social altruism. This article, using the Prudential Assurance Company as a case study, questions this argument. Life assurance companies such as the Prudential were fundamental to the operational running of natio…
Company magazines 1880–1940
This introduction performs three functions. It provides a historiography within which to site company magazines in Britain and United States between 1880–1940, it briefly examines the history and functions of these journals and it summarizes the articles found in this special edition. In relation to historiography, it argues that while research on the subject is sparse, the study of company magazines should be located in a much wider field of his…
Sport, bureaucracies and London clerks 1880–1939
From the late nineteenth century a number of large-scale bureaucracies appeared in Britain, employing hundreds and sometimes thousands of clerical workers. An interesting feature of most of these bodies was a generous provision of sponsored sport for their employees. Examining a number of major employers of clerical workers in London between 1880 and 1939, this article will ask why sport was provided on such a large scale, what benefits it offere…
Work, income and stability
The article questions the view that the economic position of male clerical workers in London was deteriorating over the period 1870–1914. It is generally accepted that clerical work for men suffered a downturn due to the impact of the Second Industrial Revolution which transformed office work as a result of the application of technology, the introduction of a female workforce, rational working practices and the rise of large-scale, complex bureau…
Monk’s Music
Additional informationNotes on contributorsMichael C. HellerEditor’s Note: As Gabriel Solis is this journal’s book reviews editor, Michael C. Heller’s contribution to this issue was both commissioned and edited by the Editor‐in‐Chief, John Howland
British Company Magazines, 1878–1939
In the 1880s company magazines began to appear in large-scale British organizations. By the 1930s almost every corporation had one. Based on business archives and using a combination of business and media history, this article attempts to map the rise and spread of the company magazine. At the same time, it examines the organizational roles and functions of this media. Company magazines came to perform a number of important roles within large-sca…
Freud on Madison Avenue
Freud on Madison Avenue: motivation research and subliminal advertising in America, by Lawrence R. Samuel, Philadelphia and Oxford, University of Pennsylvania Press, 2010, 232 pp., £19.50 (hardback
Philosophy in Science
Infinity
This interdisciplinary study of infinity explores the concept through the prism of mathematics and then offers more expansive investigations in areas beyond mathematical boundaries to reflect the broader, deeper implications of infinity for human intellectual thought. More than a dozen world-renowned researchers in the fields of mathematics, physics, cosmology, philosophy and theology offer a rich intellectual exchange among various current viewp…
Global Warming Gridlock
Global warming is one of today's greatest challenges. The science of climate change leaves no doubt that policies to cut emissions are overdue. Yet, after twenty years of international talks and treaties, the world is now in gridlock about how best to do this. David Victor argues that such gridlock has arisen because international talks have drifted away from the reality of what countries are willing and able to implement at home. Most of the les…
Philosophy in Science
Suburbia, marketing and stakeholders
This article examines the development and marketing of suburbia through a case-study of the suburb of Ilford, Essex, between 1880 and 1914. It discusses how Ilford positioned itself, the white-collar clerical workers it targeted, its principal developers and the marketing and development strategies it pursued. It is argued that Ilford achieved success through a comprehensive and integrated marketing strategy which involved a policy of clear posit…
The Tragedy of the Anticommons
This article gives a concise introduction to the ‘tragedy of the anticommons.’ The anticommons thesis is simple: when too many people own pieces of one thing, nobody can use it. Usually, private ownership creates wealth. But too much ownership has the opposite effect – it leads to wasteful underuse. This is a free market paradox that shows up all across the global economy. If too many owners control a single resource, cooperation breaks down, wea…
Always In Trouble
Salaries and promotion opportunities in the English banking industry, 1890–1936
The article is a rejoinder to Andrew J. Seltzer's article, published in Business History in August 2010, which critiqued an article published in May 2008 on the topic of clerical salaries in London, 1870–1914. It examines trends in salaries and promotions of branch clerks at the London, County and Westminster Bank and at the National Provincial Bank, and focuses on the London area for the period 1880–1913. It argues that salaries increased betwee…
Emotional Brain Revisited
London Clerical Workers, 1880–1914
This study is based on a wide range of business sources as well as newspapers, journals, novels and oral history, allowing Heller to put forward a new interpretation of working conditions for London clerks, highlighting the ways in which clerical work changed and modernized over this period.
Between silence and pain
As an axiomatic condition of sound, loudness is implicated at all levels of aural perception. Ever in contest, loudness asserts its importance in noise ordinances and stage whispers, on the battlefield and by the infant's bedside. Yet despite its pervasiveness, loudness remains among the least-analyzed components of the sonic encounter. Focusing on musical applications and listener accounts, this article considers the role of loudness as a genera…
Foucault, Discourse, and the Birth of British Public Relations
This article analyzes the emergence of public relations among corporations in interwar Britain. It adopts a discursive approach and applies the philosophy of Michel Foucault. It argues that public relations was a result of state propaganda during World War I, the emergence of a mass-media society, and criticism from a range of groups toward corporations during the period. It acted as an emergent institutional text, which taught corporations how t…
The development of integrated marketing communications at the British General Post Office, 1931–39
In the 1930s, the General Post Office (GPO) in Great Britain became one of the nation's most innovative pioneers of marketing communication.Following criticism of the organisation in the 1920s for its conservative use of publicity, the GPO embarked upon a series of creative publicity campaigns that applied, amongst other methods, advertising, public relations, promotions, cinema, events and artistic posters.Through an overview of its publicity, a…
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