Kevin Tennent
Biographic Data
| ID | 5244396 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Kevin Tennent |
| GIVEN NAMES | Kevin |
| FAMILY NAME | Tennent |
| SIGNATURE | TENNENT K |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of York |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1952-5969 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 26 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Association football and the administrators who made it, c. 1863–1914
The game of ‘association football’ or ‘soccer’ emerged as an English amateur pastime, to metamorphize into the ‘world’s game’. In this historiographical contribution we consider the formative history of football by highlighting the entrepreneurial role of the amateur administrators who imported the logic of bureaucratic organization from other sectors, identifying their influence on the entities which govern and organize the sport. We demonstrate…
The Price of Everything and the Cost of Nothing: Evaluating London’s Underground Transport Infrastructure Projects 1900–2000
This paper explores the historical development of management thought around the cost of public infrastructure. We argue that swings between ex post pricing and ex ante discounting as temporal frameworks within which the public, managers, politicians, and the media appraised major transport infrastructure projects constitute a dominant but unrecognized narrative. We use London in the twentieth century as a case study, identifying major changes in …
Explicating archival ethnography: Helmut Käser’s business trip
Archival ethnography using microhistorical approaches has considerable untapped potential as a research approach in management and business history. We use a scrapbook compiled by the mid-twentieth century football administrator Dr Helmut Käser on a business trip to Northern Ireland and London in 1967 to illustrate the ethnographic potential of narrating microhistorical cases. The scrapbook demonstrates Käser’s interaction with several contexts w…
Hybrid goals: Institutional complexity and ‘legacy’ in a global sporting mega-event
Definitions of social enterprise and hybrid organizations are compatible and allow application to a variety of organizational forms. We analyse the not-for-profit enterprise formed specifically to deliver the regional element of a global mega-sporting event: The 1994 FIFA (soccer) World Cup. The organization planned a sporting spectacle with commercial objectives to provide long-term benefits for society and a short-term economic boost.This longi…
Changing corporate domicile: The case of the Rhodesian Selection Trust companies
This article explores the transfer of corporate domicile of the Rhodesian Selection Trust group of ‘Free-Standing Companies’ (FSCs) from the UK to Northern Rhodesia. To explore the ‘nationality of the company’ we question how political and economic factors affected strategic decision-making. We contribute further understanding of the impact of international double taxation to the history of FSCs. The article illustrates how the ‘nationality of th…
Dejan Petkov, Tramway Renaissance in Western Europe: A Socio-technical Analysis
Progressive strategies of municipal trading: The policies of the London County Council Tramways c. 1891–1914
This article explores the role played by municipal traders in the development of fin de siècle London’s tramway system. Influenced by progressive politics, the Highways Committee of the London County Council developed a trading organisation that also had a social mission of improving living and working conditions for tramway users and employees alike. The Committee also enacted major urban change through the Kingsway Tunnel Project, which was an …
The limits of the narratives of strategy: Three stories from the history of music retail
This paper examines the role of narrative framing in the perception of strategic success by exploring the construction of notions of strategy in relation to the perspective of different actors in the same historical episode. Our article is about the UK music retailing industry from the late 1950s until the present. We narrate three stories/accounts – one focusing on the perspective of larger firms in the industry, acting as a normative business h…
Filip’ or flop? Managing public relations and the Latin American reaction to the 1966 Fifa World Cup
The 1966 FIFA World Cup has become part of the iconography of its hosts and champions, England. Extant literature has tended to focus on the cultural and symbolic legacy of the tournament, or engaged with diplomatic relations between Britain and North Korea. Contrastingly, we use archival sources from footballing and government institutions to explore the less studied topic of how the tournament was reported and perceived in Latin America, where …
Opportunities for all the Team: Entrepreneurship and the 1966 and 1994 Soccer World Cups
Little research has been published as to the ways in which the commercial aspects of the Fédération Internationale de Football Association’s (FIFA) World Cups are organized. Extant literature has instead tended to focus upon infrastructure issues, economic geography, and cultural aspects. Drawing upon ‘swarm theory’ and historian Wray Vamplew’s typologies of entrepreneurial activity in sport, we compare and contrast the commercial aspects of two …
Sim Harris, The Railway Dilemma: The Perpetual Problems of Ownership, Costs and Control
Foundations of Managing Sporting Events: Organising the 1966 Fifa World Cup
2016 marks the 50th anniversary of the 1966 FIFA World Cup, hosted in England. Unlike previous literature, which has tended to focus activities on the field, this book brings an institutional level approach to organizing the 1966 FIFA World Cup and examines the management process in the buildup and execution of the event. This intriguing new volume looks at the first significant UK government intervention in football and how this created a signif…
When the shopping was good: Woolworths and the Irish main street
Management and the Free-Standing Company: The New Zealand and Australia Land Company c . 1866–1900
The scholarly reappraisal of the British imperial system as the ‘British World’ has given scholars the opportunity to examine anew the financial, commercial and industrial ties which held the empire together. This article examines the experience of one such tie, the New Zealand and Australian Land Company, a Scottish-based agricultural and land company which operated in late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Australasia. This company contri…
A distribution revolution: Changes in music distribution in the UK 1950–76
Little business history has been written on the popular music industry while sociological study has tended to focus on the effect of the industry on society. This paper concentrates on how recorded popular music reached the customer, charting the evolution of the industry in the UK from a cartel structure distributing only to specialists, into an industry which allowed upstream entry freely but increasingly emphasised large-scale distribution thr…
Peterson and Berger revisited: Changing market dominance in the British popular music industry, c.1950–80
In studies of the popular music industry, there has been much interest in the market share of the leading firms (majors), and the apparent connections between a high level of concentration and musical innovation and diversity. Peterson and Berger argued that in the United States the majors lost market share to independent companies in 1955–62, then recovered their position to 1973. This article uses a newly-constructed database and concentration …
Management and the Free-Standing Company: The New Zealand and Australia Land Company c . 1866–1900
The scholarly reappraisal of the British imperial system as the ‘British World’ has given scholars the opportunity to examine anew the financial, commercial and industrial ties which held the empire together. This article examines the experience of one such tie, the New Zealand and Australian Land Company, a Scottish-based agricultural and land company which operated in late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Australasia. This company contri…
Explicating archival ethnography: Helmut Käser’s business trip
Archival ethnography using microhistorical approaches has considerable untapped potential as a research approach in management and business history. We use a scrapbook compiled by the mid-twentieth century football administrator Dr Helmut Käser on a business trip to Northern Ireland and London in 1967 to illustrate the ethnographic potential of narrating microhistorical cases. The scrapbook demonstrates Käser’s interaction with several contexts w…
Progressive strategies of municipal trading: The policies of the London County Council Tramways c. 1891–1914
This article explores the role played by municipal traders in the development of fin de siècle London’s tramway system. Influenced by progressive politics, the Highways Committee of the London County Council developed a trading organisation that also had a social mission of improving living and working conditions for tramway users and employees alike. The Committee also enacted major urban change through the Kingsway Tunnel Project, which was an …
A distribution revolution: Changes in music distribution in the UK 1950–76
Little business history has been written on the popular music industry while sociological study has tended to focus on the effect of the industry on society. This paper concentrates on how recorded popular music reached the customer, charting the evolution of the industry in the UK from a cartel structure distributing only to specialists, into an industry which allowed upstream entry freely but increasingly emphasised large-scale distribution thr…
Peterson and Berger revisited: Changing market dominance in the British popular music industry, c.1950–80
In studies of the popular music industry, there has been much interest in the market share of the leading firms (majors), and the apparent connections between a high level of concentration and musical innovation and diversity. Peterson and Berger argued that in the United States the majors lost market share to independent companies in 1955–62, then recovered their position to 1973. This article uses a newly-constructed database and concentration …
Opportunities for all the Team: Entrepreneurship and the 1966 and 1994 Soccer World Cups
Little research has been published as to the ways in which the commercial aspects of the Fédération Internationale de Football Association’s (FIFA) World Cups are organized. Extant literature has instead tended to focus upon infrastructure issues, economic geography, and cultural aspects. Drawing upon ‘swarm theory’ and historian Wray Vamplew’s typologies of entrepreneurial activity in sport, we compare and contrast the commercial aspects of two …
The limits of the narratives of strategy: Three stories from the history of music retail
This paper examines the role of narrative framing in the perception of strategic success by exploring the construction of notions of strategy in relation to the perspective of different actors in the same historical episode. Our article is about the UK music retailing industry from the late 1950s until the present. We narrate three stories/accounts – one focusing on the perspective of larger firms in the industry, acting as a normative business h…
Peterson and Berger revisited: Changing market dominance in the British popular music industry, c.1950–80
In studies of the popular music industry, there has been much interest in the market share of the leading firms (majors), and the apparent connections between a high level of concentration and musical innovation and diversity. Peterson and Berger argued that in the United States the majors lost market share to independent companies in 1955–62, then recovered their position to 1973. This article uses a newly-constructed database and concentration …
Management and the Free-Standing Company: The New Zealand and Australia Land Company c . 1866–1900
The scholarly reappraisal of the British imperial system as the ‘British World’ has given scholars the opportunity to examine anew the financial, commercial and industrial ties which held the empire together. This article examines the experience of one such tie, the New Zealand and Australian Land Company, a Scottish-based agricultural and land company which operated in late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Australasia. This company contri…
A distribution revolution: Changes in music distribution in the UK 1950–76
Little business history has been written on the popular music industry while sociological study has tended to focus on the effect of the industry on society. This paper concentrates on how recorded popular music reached the customer, charting the evolution of the industry in the UK from a cartel structure distributing only to specialists, into an industry which allowed upstream entry freely but increasingly emphasised large-scale distribution thr…
When the shopping was good: Woolworths and the Irish main street
Foundations of Managing Sporting Events: Organising the 1966 Fifa World Cup
2016 marks the 50th anniversary of the 1966 FIFA World Cup, hosted in England. Unlike previous literature, which has tended to focus activities on the field, this book brings an institutional level approach to organizing the 1966 FIFA World Cup and examines the management process in the buildup and execution of the event. This intriguing new volume looks at the first significant UK government intervention in football and how this created a signif…
Opportunities for all the Team: Entrepreneurship and the 1966 and 1994 Soccer World Cups
Little research has been published as to the ways in which the commercial aspects of the Fédération Internationale de Football Association’s (FIFA) World Cups are organized. Extant literature has instead tended to focus upon infrastructure issues, economic geography, and cultural aspects. Drawing upon ‘swarm theory’ and historian Wray Vamplew’s typologies of entrepreneurial activity in sport, we compare and contrast the commercial aspects of two …
Sim Harris, The Railway Dilemma: The Perpetual Problems of Ownership, Costs and Control
Filip’ or flop? Managing public relations and the Latin American reaction to the 1966 Fifa World Cup
The 1966 FIFA World Cup has become part of the iconography of its hosts and champions, England. Extant literature has tended to focus on the cultural and symbolic legacy of the tournament, or engaged with diplomatic relations between Britain and North Korea. Contrastingly, we use archival sources from footballing and government institutions to explore the less studied topic of how the tournament was reported and perceived in Latin America, where …
The limits of the narratives of strategy: Three stories from the history of music retail
This paper examines the role of narrative framing in the perception of strategic success by exploring the construction of notions of strategy in relation to the perspective of different actors in the same historical episode. Our article is about the UK music retailing industry from the late 1950s until the present. We narrate three stories/accounts – one focusing on the perspective of larger firms in the industry, acting as a normative business h…
Dejan Petkov, Tramway Renaissance in Western Europe: A Socio-technical Analysis
Progressive strategies of municipal trading: The policies of the London County Council Tramways c. 1891–1914
This article explores the role played by municipal traders in the development of fin de siècle London’s tramway system. Influenced by progressive politics, the Highways Committee of the London County Council developed a trading organisation that also had a social mission of improving living and working conditions for tramway users and employees alike. The Committee also enacted major urban change through the Kingsway Tunnel Project, which was an …
Hybrid goals: Institutional complexity and ‘legacy’ in a global sporting mega-event
Definitions of social enterprise and hybrid organizations are compatible and allow application to a variety of organizational forms. We analyse the not-for-profit enterprise formed specifically to deliver the regional element of a global mega-sporting event: The 1994 FIFA (soccer) World Cup. The organization planned a sporting spectacle with commercial objectives to provide long-term benefits for society and a short-term economic boost.This longi…
Changing corporate domicile: The case of the Rhodesian Selection Trust companies
This article explores the transfer of corporate domicile of the Rhodesian Selection Trust group of ‘Free-Standing Companies’ (FSCs) from the UK to Northern Rhodesia. To explore the ‘nationality of the company’ we question how political and economic factors affected strategic decision-making. We contribute further understanding of the impact of international double taxation to the history of FSCs. The article illustrates how the ‘nationality of th…
Explicating archival ethnography: Helmut Käser’s business trip
Archival ethnography using microhistorical approaches has considerable untapped potential as a research approach in management and business history. We use a scrapbook compiled by the mid-twentieth century football administrator Dr Helmut Käser on a business trip to Northern Ireland and London in 1967 to illustrate the ethnographic potential of narrating microhistorical cases. The scrapbook demonstrates Käser’s interaction with several contexts w…
Association football and the administrators who made it, c. 1863–1914
The game of ‘association football’ or ‘soccer’ emerged as an English amateur pastime, to metamorphize into the ‘world’s game’. In this historiographical contribution we consider the formative history of football by highlighting the entrepreneurial role of the amateur administrators who imported the logic of bureaucratic organization from other sectors, identifying their influence on the entities which govern and organize the sport. We demonstrate…
The Price of Everything and the Cost of Nothing: Evaluating London’s Underground Transport Infrastructure Projects 1900–2000
This paper explores the historical development of management thought around the cost of public infrastructure. We argue that swings between ex post pricing and ex ante discounting as temporal frameworks within which the public, managers, politicians, and the media appraised major transport infrastructure projects constitute a dominant but unrecognized narrative. We use London in the twentieth century as a case study, identifying major changes in …
Business (7 works) · Economics (7 works) · Political science (7 works) · Marketing (6 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Historical Economic and Social Studies (4 works) · History (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Sport and Mega-Event Impacts (4 works)