Reva Berman Brown
Biographic Data
| ID | 3955950 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Reva Berman Brown |
| GIVEN NAMES | Reva Berman |
| FAMILY NAME | Brown |
| SIGNATURE | BROWN R B |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Essex |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 18 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1994 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
The Exchequer of the Jews Revisited: The Operation and Effect of the Scaccarium Judeorum
The Jewish branch of the Great Exchequer of England was created some time during the last decade of the twelfth century during the reign of Richard I (1189–99). Jews arrived in England in significant numbers after 1066, invited by William the Conqueror to assist in the increase of English commerce and industry. They remained, as financiers, moneylenders and pawnbrokers, until expelled by Edward I in 1290. The article tells the story of the excheq…
Supporting Ethnic Community Businesses: Lessons from a West Midlands Asian Business Support Agency
Fallon G. and Berman Brown R. (2004) Supporting ethnic community businesses: lessons from a West Midlands Asian business support agency, Reg. Studies 38, 137-148. This paper contributes to the debate being conducted in academic and public policy-making circles concerning the promotion of work and self-employment opportunities from people facing social exclusion. Using data gathered from semi-structured interviews conducted in a West Midlands ethn…
Organizational Spirituality: The Sceptic's Version
This is not the paper I set out to write. That one was titled ‘Emotion and Organizational Spirituality’, and what I wished to do was to extract enough information from the literatures to address the issue of the connection between the two conceptual areas of ‘emotion ’ and ‘organiza
The Internal Exile of Medieval English Jewry
The history of the Jewish community of medieval England was relatively brief The chronicler William of Malmesbury states that the Jews of London were brought from Rouen by William I (the Conqueror) as part of a policy of stimulating commercial development. They worked mainly as financiers until they were expelled from England by Edward I in 1290. Their status was unique in that they were protected by, and 'belonged' to, the Crown. Their presence …
Cross Cultural Perspectives of Expatriate Managers Working in Egypt
This study focuses on western managers of organizations doing business in Egypt, and examines their perspectives on the interface between them and Egyptian culture, within an organizational framework. The research was carried out through a mailed questionnaire survey sent to foreign managers of organizations doing business in Egypt. Informal interviews and the relevant literature provided the topics for the survey. Four macro-themes emerged from …
Focusing on focus groups: Lessons from a research project involving a Bangladeshi community
This article examines the main issues and challenges associated with the use of the focus group method in a research study involving small business and entrepreneurship. The project concerned the education and training needs of a Bangladeshi community in a West Midlands city, commissioned by the local Chamber of Commerce Training and Enterprise. The article considers the advice provided in the literature on the conduct of focus groups, describes …
Humor in the hotel kitchen
What a good idea! a conceptual history of the paradigm in organizational theory
A home from home: The organization as family
The basic unit of human organization has always been the family, although the meaning and composition of “family” has altered over the millennia of human existence. The current view in Western thought is that there is a distinct schism between the family and other social organizations, particularly those organizations associated with work. As a broad distinction, the family is held to be in the private sphere of human interaction and work organiz…
The Need to Eat: The Psychological and Philosophical Components of Bounded Rationality
This article examines the decision making preceding a particular event—the 50th anniversary dinner-dance held for employees of a British chemical firm—and the factors influencing the choice of activity and venue. Through the analysis of influences on the decision process, the article seeks to demonstrate that although the process fell generally into Simon's bounded rationality model of satisficing behavior, other psychological and philosophical i…
Meetings and intersections
Knowledge and Knowing: A Feminist Perspective
This article describes a number of classifications of knowledge present in the sociological literature about knowledge. The second section is concerned with a discussion about knowing about knowledge; the third section gives some consideration to the knowledge industry; and the article concludes with a survey of aspects of the utilization of knowledge by organizations and managers. Throughout, examples of views of knowledge are drawn from an earl…
Focusing on focus groups: Lessons from a research project involving a Bangladeshi community
This article examines the main issues and challenges associated with the use of the focus group method in a research study involving small business and entrepreneurship. The project concerned the education and training needs of a Bangladeshi community in a West Midlands city, commissioned by the local Chamber of Commerce Training and Enterprise. The article considers the advice provided in the literature on the conduct of focus groups, describes …
Humor in the hotel kitchen
The Exchequer of the Jews Revisited: The Operation and Effect of the Scaccarium Judeorum
The Jewish branch of the Great Exchequer of England was created some time during the last decade of the twelfth century during the reign of Richard I (1189–99). Jews arrived in England in significant numbers after 1066, invited by William the Conqueror to assist in the increase of English commerce and industry. They remained, as financiers, moneylenders and pawnbrokers, until expelled by Edward I in 1290. The article tells the story of the excheq…
The Need to Eat: The Psychological and Philosophical Components of Bounded Rationality
This article examines the decision making preceding a particular event—the 50th anniversary dinner-dance held for employees of a British chemical firm—and the factors influencing the choice of activity and venue. Through the analysis of influences on the decision process, the article seeks to demonstrate that although the process fell generally into Simon's bounded rationality model of satisficing behavior, other psychological and philosophical i…
Knowledge and Knowing: A Feminist Perspective
This article describes a number of classifications of knowledge present in the sociological literature about knowledge. The second section is concerned with a discussion about knowing about knowledge; the third section gives some consideration to the knowledge industry; and the article concludes with a survey of aspects of the utilization of knowledge by organizations and managers. Throughout, examples of views of knowledge are drawn from an earl…
Meetings and intersections
A home from home: The organization as family
The basic unit of human organization has always been the family, although the meaning and composition of “family” has altered over the millennia of human existence. The current view in Western thought is that there is a distinct schism between the family and other social organizations, particularly those organizations associated with work. As a broad distinction, the family is held to be in the private sphere of human interaction and work organiz…
The Need to Eat: The Psychological and Philosophical Components of Bounded Rationality
This article examines the decision making preceding a particular event—the 50th anniversary dinner-dance held for employees of a British chemical firm—and the factors influencing the choice of activity and venue. Through the analysis of influences on the decision process, the article seeks to demonstrate that although the process fell generally into Simon's bounded rationality model of satisficing behavior, other psychological and philosophical i…
What a good idea! a conceptual history of the paradigm in organizational theory
Humor in the hotel kitchen
Cross Cultural Perspectives of Expatriate Managers Working in Egypt
This study focuses on western managers of organizations doing business in Egypt, and examines their perspectives on the interface between them and Egyptian culture, within an organizational framework. The research was carried out through a mailed questionnaire survey sent to foreign managers of organizations doing business in Egypt. Informal interviews and the relevant literature provided the topics for the survey. Four macro-themes emerged from …
Focusing on focus groups: Lessons from a research project involving a Bangladeshi community
This article examines the main issues and challenges associated with the use of the focus group method in a research study involving small business and entrepreneurship. The project concerned the education and training needs of a Bangladeshi community in a West Midlands city, commissioned by the local Chamber of Commerce Training and Enterprise. The article considers the advice provided in the literature on the conduct of focus groups, describes …
Organizational Spirituality: The Sceptic's Version
This is not the paper I set out to write. That one was titled ‘Emotion and Organizational Spirituality’, and what I wished to do was to extract enough information from the literatures to address the issue of the connection between the two conceptual areas of ‘emotion ’ and ‘organiza
The Internal Exile of Medieval English Jewry
The history of the Jewish community of medieval England was relatively brief The chronicler William of Malmesbury states that the Jews of London were brought from Rouen by William I (the Conqueror) as part of a policy of stimulating commercial development. They worked mainly as financiers until they were expelled from England by Edward I in 1290. Their status was unique in that they were protected by, and 'belonged' to, the Crown. Their presence …
Supporting Ethnic Community Businesses: Lessons from a West Midlands Asian Business Support Agency
Fallon G. and Berman Brown R. (2004) Supporting ethnic community businesses: lessons from a West Midlands Asian business support agency, Reg. Studies 38, 137-148. This paper contributes to the debate being conducted in academic and public policy-making circles concerning the promotion of work and self-employment opportunities from people facing social exclusion. Using data gathered from semi-structured interviews conducted in a West Midlands ethn…
The Exchequer of the Jews Revisited: The Operation and Effect of the Scaccarium Judeorum
The Jewish branch of the Great Exchequer of England was created some time during the last decade of the twelfth century during the reign of Richard I (1189–99). Jews arrived in England in significant numbers after 1066, invited by William the Conqueror to assist in the increase of English commerce and industry. They remained, as financiers, moneylenders and pawnbrokers, until expelled by Edward I in 1290. The article tells the story of the excheq…
Sociology (10 works) · Political science (6 works) · Epistemology (5 works) · Business (4 works) · Management and Organizational Studies (4 works) · Philosophy (4 works) · Psychology (4 works) · Art (3 works) · Computer Science (3 works) · Law (3 works)