Nicholas D Wong
Biographic Data
| ID | 4071505 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Nicholas D Wong |
| GIVEN NAMES | Nicholas D |
| FAMILY NAME | Wong |
| SIGNATURE | WONG N D |
| AFFILIATIONS | Northumbria University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4667-978X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 17 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
How do firms manage ethically-contested organisational paradoxes? Insights from two historical case studies of modern slavery
Management researchers, particularly those focused on socially important issues such as worker exploitation, are increasingly interested in what this study terms ethically-contested organisational paradoxes. Such paradoxes occur when there is an incongruity between the ethical dimensions of a firm’s action in one area, geographical or functional, and another. To understand how firms manage ethically-contested organisational paradoxes, this study …
Bourdieusian capital conversion during crises of socio-political legitimacy: Sponsorship of the arts by Barclays Bank, 1972 to 1987
This paper advances our understanding of how organisations engage in the process of Bourdieusian capital conversion during crises of socio-political legitimacy. We do so by analysing the arts sponsorship strategies of Barclays between 1972 and 1987. During this period, Barclays faced numerous challenges to its organisational legitimacy as a result of its continued dealings in apartheid South Africa and its ability to generate extraordinary profit…
Entrepreneurial strategies in a family business: Growth and capital conversions in historical perspective
This article focuses on the entrepreneurial and pro-social activities of William Rushworth II from 1897 to 1944. He inherited a family business modest in scale, which eventually became one of the largest music houses in the world. The Company business model incorporated entrepreneurial and pro-social activities. Our theoretical model shows the transmutability of the forms of capital and how they were utilised by William to identify productive opp…
Business History: A Research Overview
A history of business history
This chapter concerns charting what can only be described as a transformational process, capturing how a specific discipline emerged out of a variety of influences. Interestingly, though, in none of the rapidly growing British business schools did business history feature specifically in either staff recruitment or their programmes, establishing a tradition that persists into the 2020s. Similarly, some social scientists were utilizing business hi…
Business history, international business and strategy scholarship
Perchard et al. have also attempted to develop an effective bridging mechanism between historical research and disciplines such as strategy, international business and entrepreneurship. Kobrak et al. speak only to business history audiences, resulting in what they call the ‘echo chamber effect’ that inhibits a meaningful conversation between the disciplines. The key to a resolution to this ‘echo chamber effect’ is much greater use of history by I…
Business history
This chapter elaborates on why business history has failed to make deeper inroads into the mindsets of practitioners and policymakers and offers some practical ideas on how business historians can engage with the world of policy and practice. Consequently, business history research seems to have failed to make much of an impact in this area. A key strength of business history research stems from its ability to put current issues in proper context…
The Market Makers: Creating Mass Market Consumer Durables in Inter-War Britain
The Market Makers: Creating Mass Market Consumer Durables in Inter-War Britain." Business History, 63(8), pp. 1449–1450
Classroom composition and language skills: The role of school class and friend characteristics
The present study addresses the question to what extent language skills among students are influenced by the composition of the overall classroom context and the composition of friendship networks within school classes. Furthermore, we ask whether the effects differ between stratified school systems, with a more homogenous student body in school classes, and comprehensive school systems, with a more heterogeneous student body. Focusing only on cl…
Religiosity, emotional states, and strategy in the family firm: Edm. Schluter & Co Ltd., 1953-1980
Religiosity, emotional states, and strategy in the family firm: Edm. Schluter & Co Ltd., 1953-1980
Centré sur le cas de l’entreprise de négoce international de matières premières Edm. Schluter & Co. Ltd. dans la période 1953-1980, cet article contribue à un tournant affectif croissant dans l’histoire des entreprises et les études d’entreprises familiales en examinant comment la religiosité familiale partagée a généré des émotions positives qui ont créé un avantage concurrentiel pour cette firme pendant une période de turbulences externes accru…
In the best position to reap mutually beneficial results’: Sole-agency agreements and the distribution of consumer durables in inter-war Britain
This article uses a case-study approach to explore the use of exclusive sole-agency agreements in the distribution and retailing of specialty branded consumer durables in inter-war Britain, a neglected topic in the business history literature. Utilising an extensive correspondence between piano manufacturer Broadwood and Sons, and Liverpool-based musical instrument retailer Rushworth and Dreaper (with comparisons made with two smaller sets of man…
Entrepreneurial strategies in a family business: Growth and capital conversions in historical perspective
This article focuses on the entrepreneurial and pro-social activities of William Rushworth II from 1897 to 1944. He inherited a family business modest in scale, which eventually became one of the largest music houses in the world. The Company business model incorporated entrepreneurial and pro-social activities. Our theoretical model shows the transmutability of the forms of capital and how they were utilised by William to identify productive opp…
Bourdieusian capital conversion during crises of socio-political legitimacy: Sponsorship of the arts by Barclays Bank, 1972 to 1987
This paper advances our understanding of how organisations engage in the process of Bourdieusian capital conversion during crises of socio-political legitimacy. We do so by analysing the arts sponsorship strategies of Barclays between 1972 and 1987. During this period, Barclays faced numerous challenges to its organisational legitimacy as a result of its continued dealings in apartheid South Africa and its ability to generate extraordinary profit…
Classroom composition and language skills: The role of school class and friend characteristics
The present study addresses the question to what extent language skills among students are influenced by the composition of the overall classroom context and the composition of friendship networks within school classes. Furthermore, we ask whether the effects differ between stratified school systems, with a more homogenous student body in school classes, and comprehensive school systems, with a more heterogeneous student body. Focusing only on cl…
How do firms manage ethically-contested organisational paradoxes? Insights from two historical case studies of modern slavery
Management researchers, particularly those focused on socially important issues such as worker exploitation, are increasingly interested in what this study terms ethically-contested organisational paradoxes. Such paradoxes occur when there is an incongruity between the ethical dimensions of a firm’s action in one area, geographical or functional, and another. To understand how firms manage ethically-contested organisational paradoxes, this study …
In the best position to reap mutually beneficial results’: Sole-agency agreements and the distribution of consumer durables in inter-war Britain
This article uses a case-study approach to explore the use of exclusive sole-agency agreements in the distribution and retailing of specialty branded consumer durables in inter-war Britain, a neglected topic in the business history literature. Utilising an extensive correspondence between piano manufacturer Broadwood and Sons, and Liverpool-based musical instrument retailer Rushworth and Dreaper (with comparisons made with two smaller sets of man…
Religiosity, emotional states, and strategy in the family firm: Edm. Schluter & Co Ltd., 1953-1980
Religiosity, emotional states, and strategy in the family firm: Edm. Schluter & Co Ltd., 1953-1980
Centré sur le cas de l’entreprise de négoce international de matières premières Edm. Schluter & Co. Ltd. dans la période 1953-1980, cet article contribue à un tournant affectif croissant dans l’histoire des entreprises et les études d’entreprises familiales en examinant comment la religiosité familiale partagée a généré des émotions positives qui ont créé un avantage concurrentiel pour cette firme pendant une période de turbulences externes accru…
In the best position to reap mutually beneficial results’: Sole-agency agreements and the distribution of consumer durables in inter-war Britain
This article uses a case-study approach to explore the use of exclusive sole-agency agreements in the distribution and retailing of specialty branded consumer durables in inter-war Britain, a neglected topic in the business history literature. Utilising an extensive correspondence between piano manufacturer Broadwood and Sons, and Liverpool-based musical instrument retailer Rushworth and Dreaper (with comparisons made with two smaller sets of man…
Classroom composition and language skills: The role of school class and friend characteristics
The present study addresses the question to what extent language skills among students are influenced by the composition of the overall classroom context and the composition of friendship networks within school classes. Furthermore, we ask whether the effects differ between stratified school systems, with a more homogenous student body in school classes, and comprehensive school systems, with a more heterogeneous student body. Focusing only on cl…
The Market Makers: Creating Mass Market Consumer Durables in Inter-War Britain
The Market Makers: Creating Mass Market Consumer Durables in Inter-War Britain." Business History, 63(8), pp. 1449–1450
Business History: A Research Overview
A history of business history
This chapter concerns charting what can only be described as a transformational process, capturing how a specific discipline emerged out of a variety of influences. Interestingly, though, in none of the rapidly growing British business schools did business history feature specifically in either staff recruitment or their programmes, establishing a tradition that persists into the 2020s. Similarly, some social scientists were utilizing business hi…
Business history, international business and strategy scholarship
Perchard et al. have also attempted to develop an effective bridging mechanism between historical research and disciplines such as strategy, international business and entrepreneurship. Kobrak et al. speak only to business history audiences, resulting in what they call the ‘echo chamber effect’ that inhibits a meaningful conversation between the disciplines. The key to a resolution to this ‘echo chamber effect’ is much greater use of history by I…
Business history
This chapter elaborates on why business history has failed to make deeper inroads into the mindsets of practitioners and policymakers and offers some practical ideas on how business historians can engage with the world of policy and practice. Consequently, business history research seems to have failed to make much of an impact in this area. A key strength of business history research stems from its ability to put current issues in proper context…
Entrepreneurial strategies in a family business: Growth and capital conversions in historical perspective
This article focuses on the entrepreneurial and pro-social activities of William Rushworth II from 1897 to 1944. He inherited a family business modest in scale, which eventually became one of the largest music houses in the world. The Company business model incorporated entrepreneurial and pro-social activities. Our theoretical model shows the transmutability of the forms of capital and how they were utilised by William to identify productive opp…
Bourdieusian capital conversion during crises of socio-political legitimacy: Sponsorship of the arts by Barclays Bank, 1972 to 1987
This paper advances our understanding of how organisations engage in the process of Bourdieusian capital conversion during crises of socio-political legitimacy. We do so by analysing the arts sponsorship strategies of Barclays between 1972 and 1987. During this period, Barclays faced numerous challenges to its organisational legitimacy as a result of its continued dealings in apartheid South Africa and its ability to generate extraordinary profit…
How do firms manage ethically-contested organisational paradoxes? Insights from two historical case studies of modern slavery
Management researchers, particularly those focused on socially important issues such as worker exploitation, are increasingly interested in what this study terms ethically-contested organisational paradoxes. Such paradoxes occur when there is an incongruity between the ethical dimensions of a firm’s action in one area, geographical or functional, and another. To understand how firms manage ethically-contested organisational paradoxes, this study …
Business (6 works) · Business history (6 works) · Economics (6 works) · Historical Economic and Social Studies (5 works) · Political science (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · History (4 works) · African history and culture studies (3 works) · Economic history (3 works) · Law (3 works)