Hugo van Driel
Biographic Data
| ID | 5244402 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Hugo van Driel |
| GIVEN NAMES | Hugo |
| FAMILY NAME | van Driel |
| SIGNATURE | VAN DRIEL H |
| AFFILIATIONS | Erasmus University Rotterdam |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3917-481X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 59 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2002 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
A co-evolutionary analysis of longevity: Pakhoed and its predecessors
In this study of the warehousing company Pakhoed and its predecessors over a period of 200 years, we analyse the configuration of environmental forces, exploitation and exploration, and three firm-level longevity factors: a tolerant management style and decentralised structure; a strong sense of identity; and a conservative financial policy. The idiosyncratic set-up of Pakhoed's forerunners enabled their long-term survival through co-evolution wi…
Towards a new business history
This article calls for a discussion about business history research. We advocate that the current typical approach in business history – dominantly case study analysis – maintains its prominent position, but the purpose and relevance of this type of research in the scientific method for business history is made more explicit. Moreover, the article proposes the application of additional approaches in business history, which specifically aim to dev…
Hans Boot, Opstandig volk. Neergang en terugkeer van losse havenarbeid
TSEG (Tijdschrift voor Sociale en Economische Geschiedenis) - The Low Countries Journal of Social and Economic History, is het Nederlands-Vlaamse vaktijdschrift op het gebied van de sociale en economische geschiedenis
You too, Brutus? Category demise in Rotterdam warehousing, 1871-2011
To counterbalance the proliferation of studies on the emergence of new organizational categories, this study asked how organizational categories disappear. In a historical case study of vemen in Rotterdam warehousing, specific mechanisms contributing to the demise of that category are identified, paying particular attention to category labels, schemas, and members' positioning within categories. A comparison with a similar but more persistent cat…
The Rhetoric of Restraint: The Struggle for Legitimacy of the Dutch Temporary Work Agency Industry, 1961–1996
In many countries governments and labor unions have contested the post-war rise of temporary agency work, arguing that this innovation infringed on workers' rights and security. We investigate the rhetorical strategies used by Dutch temporary work agencies (TWAs) to gain legitimacy for their business between 1961 and 1996. Our conclusion is that the TWAs' trade association ABU developed a sophisticated rhetoric of “self-restraint” to legitimize t…
Ruud Filarski en Gijs Mom, Van transport naar mobiliteit. Deel 1: De transportrevolutie (1800-1900), Deel 2: De mobiliteitsexplosie (1895-2005)
TSEG (Tijdschrift voor Sociale en Economische Geschiedenis) - The Low Countries Journal of Social and Economic History, is het Nederlands-Vlaamse vaktijdschrift op het gebied van de sociale en economische geschiedenis
De veerkracht van de zelfstandige ondernemer. Ondernemers en midden- en kleinbedrijf in Nederland, de Verenigde Staten en Groot-Brittannië vanaf 1950
TSEG (Tijdschrift voor Sociale en Economische Geschiedenis) - The Low Countries Journal of Social and Economic History, is het Nederlands-Vlaamse vaktijdschrift op het gebied van de sociale en economische geschiedenis
Memory and learning: Selecting users in the port of Rotterdam, 1883–1900
During the closing decades of the nineteenth century, the port of Rotterdam experienced very strong growth. Changing views and concrete experiences induced the port to widen the initially limited circle of regular users of berths. We study this case in order to increase our understanding of the dynamic interrelationship between organisational memory and learning. While organisational memory guides the application of routines, this practical exper…
Path Dependence in Ports: The Persistence of Cooperative Forms
The concept of path dependence is used to compare the evolution of the organizational forms of two groups of transportation and warehousing firms, the Dutch vemen and the Antwerp naties , that operated in seaports between c.1500 and 1900 and beyond. Their adoption of cooperative forms reflected the corporative guild creed that prevailed in early modern European cities. After 1815, when their businesses were no longer regulated by local government…
Testing the Chandler Thesis: Comparing middle management and administrative intensity in Dutch and US industries, 1900–1950
This article tests Alfred Chandler's thesis that the managerial revolution, that is, the building of managerial hierarchies, clustered in a selected set of industries where the need for co-ordination was particularly high. These fast-growing, capital-intensive, and high-volume producing industries are denoted as Chandlerian industries. We compare the latter with the other industries in the Netherlands and the USA using census data covering the fi…
De Managerial Revolution in de VS en Nederland in de twintigste eeuw
TSEG (Tijdschrift voor Sociale en Economische Geschiedenis) - The Low Countries Journal of Social and Economic History, is het Nederlands-Vlaamse vaktijdschrift op het gebied van de sociale en economische geschiedenis
Radical Innovation as a Multilevel Process: Introducing Floating Grain Elevators in the Port of Rotterdam
No abstract
De geschenken van Pallas Athena. Discussiedossier over kenniseconomie en economische groei
TSEG (Tijdschrift voor Sociale en Economische Geschiedenis) - The Low Countries Journal of Social and Economic History, is het Nederlands-Vlaamse vaktijdschrift op het gebied van de sociale en economische geschiedenis
Grenzen aan de verklaringkracht van 'kennis
TSEG (Tijdschrift voor Sociale en Economische Geschiedenis) - The Low Countries Journal of Social and Economic History, is het Nederlands-Vlaamse vaktijdschrift op het gebied van de sociale en economische geschiedenis
The Role of Middlemen in the International Coffee Trade since 1870: The Dutch Case
The tendency to cut out middlemen (disintermediation) is a common theme in the literature. This article focuses on the functions performed by middlemen for buyers and sellers. If there are large gaps between the conditions of supply and demand, uncertainty for buyers and sellers is relatively high. Middlemen are particularly suited to reduce this uncertainty by bridging the gaps. Four dimensions are distinguished: place, time, quantity, and quali…
Innovation and Integration in Mineral Bulk Handling in the Port of Rotterdam, 1886-1923
Between around 1885 and 1920 the handling of mineral bulk cargo in the port of Rotterdam was mechanised by a series of innovations. During this process, the identity of the main innovators shifted from the local government and integrated or integrating trading and transport firms to stand-alone service providers, the so-called stevedoring firms. In order to understand this pattern, a framework of the functional sources of innovation is related to…
Towards a new business history
This article calls for a discussion about business history research. We advocate that the current typical approach in business history – dominantly case study analysis – maintains its prominent position, but the purpose and relevance of this type of research in the scientific method for business history is made more explicit. Moreover, the article proposes the application of additional approaches in business history, which specifically aim to dev…
Radical Innovation as a Multilevel Process: Introducing Floating Grain Elevators in the Port of Rotterdam
No abstract
The Role of Middlemen in the International Coffee Trade since 1870: The Dutch Case
The tendency to cut out middlemen (disintermediation) is a common theme in the literature. This article focuses on the functions performed by middlemen for buyers and sellers. If there are large gaps between the conditions of supply and demand, uncertainty for buyers and sellers is relatively high. Middlemen are particularly suited to reduce this uncertainty by bridging the gaps. Four dimensions are distinguished: place, time, quantity, and quali…
You too, Brutus? Category demise in Rotterdam warehousing, 1871-2011
To counterbalance the proliferation of studies on the emergence of new organizational categories, this study asked how organizational categories disappear. In a historical case study of vemen in Rotterdam warehousing, specific mechanisms contributing to the demise of that category are identified, paying particular attention to category labels, schemas, and members' positioning within categories. A comparison with a similar but more persistent cat…
Path Dependence in Ports: The Persistence of Cooperative Forms
The concept of path dependence is used to compare the evolution of the organizational forms of two groups of transportation and warehousing firms, the Dutch vemen and the Antwerp naties , that operated in seaports between c.1500 and 1900 and beyond. Their adoption of cooperative forms reflected the corporative guild creed that prevailed in early modern European cities. After 1815, when their businesses were no longer regulated by local government…
De Managerial Revolution in de VS en Nederland in de twintigste eeuw
TSEG (Tijdschrift voor Sociale en Economische Geschiedenis) - The Low Countries Journal of Social and Economic History, is het Nederlands-Vlaamse vaktijdschrift op het gebied van de sociale en economische geschiedenis
A co-evolutionary analysis of longevity: Pakhoed and its predecessors
In this study of the warehousing company Pakhoed and its predecessors over a period of 200 years, we analyse the configuration of environmental forces, exploitation and exploration, and three firm-level longevity factors: a tolerant management style and decentralised structure; a strong sense of identity; and a conservative financial policy. The idiosyncratic set-up of Pakhoed's forerunners enabled their long-term survival through co-evolution wi…
The Rhetoric of Restraint: The Struggle for Legitimacy of the Dutch Temporary Work Agency Industry, 1961–1996
In many countries governments and labor unions have contested the post-war rise of temporary agency work, arguing that this innovation infringed on workers' rights and security. We investigate the rhetorical strategies used by Dutch temporary work agencies (TWAs) to gain legitimacy for their business between 1961 and 1996. Our conclusion is that the TWAs' trade association ABU developed a sophisticated rhetoric of “self-restraint” to legitimize t…
Testing the Chandler Thesis: Comparing middle management and administrative intensity in Dutch and US industries, 1900–1950
This article tests Alfred Chandler's thesis that the managerial revolution, that is, the building of managerial hierarchies, clustered in a selected set of industries where the need for co-ordination was particularly high. These fast-growing, capital-intensive, and high-volume producing industries are denoted as Chandlerian industries. We compare the latter with the other industries in the Netherlands and the USA using census data covering the fi…
Innovation and Integration in Mineral Bulk Handling in the Port of Rotterdam, 1886-1923
Between around 1885 and 1920 the handling of mineral bulk cargo in the port of Rotterdam was mechanised by a series of innovations. During this process, the identity of the main innovators shifted from the local government and integrated or integrating trading and transport firms to stand-alone service providers, the so-called stevedoring firms. In order to understand this pattern, a framework of the functional sources of innovation is related to…
The Role of Middlemen in the International Coffee Trade since 1870: The Dutch Case
The tendency to cut out middlemen (disintermediation) is a common theme in the literature. This article focuses on the functions performed by middlemen for buyers and sellers. If there are large gaps between the conditions of supply and demand, uncertainty for buyers and sellers is relatively high. Middlemen are particularly suited to reduce this uncertainty by bridging the gaps. Four dimensions are distinguished: place, time, quantity, and quali…
De geschenken van Pallas Athena. Discussiedossier over kenniseconomie en economische groei
TSEG (Tijdschrift voor Sociale en Economische Geschiedenis) - The Low Countries Journal of Social and Economic History, is het Nederlands-Vlaamse vaktijdschrift op het gebied van de sociale en economische geschiedenis
Grenzen aan de verklaringkracht van 'kennis
TSEG (Tijdschrift voor Sociale en Economische Geschiedenis) - The Low Countries Journal of Social and Economic History, is het Nederlands-Vlaamse vaktijdschrift op het gebied van de sociale en economische geschiedenis
De Managerial Revolution in de VS en Nederland in de twintigste eeuw
TSEG (Tijdschrift voor Sociale en Economische Geschiedenis) - The Low Countries Journal of Social and Economic History, is het Nederlands-Vlaamse vaktijdschrift op het gebied van de sociale en economische geschiedenis
Radical Innovation as a Multilevel Process: Introducing Floating Grain Elevators in the Port of Rotterdam
No abstract
Path Dependence in Ports: The Persistence of Cooperative Forms
The concept of path dependence is used to compare the evolution of the organizational forms of two groups of transportation and warehousing firms, the Dutch vemen and the Antwerp naties , that operated in seaports between c.1500 and 1900 and beyond. Their adoption of cooperative forms reflected the corporative guild creed that prevailed in early modern European cities. After 1815, when their businesses were no longer regulated by local government…
Testing the Chandler Thesis: Comparing middle management and administrative intensity in Dutch and US industries, 1900–1950
This article tests Alfred Chandler's thesis that the managerial revolution, that is, the building of managerial hierarchies, clustered in a selected set of industries where the need for co-ordination was particularly high. These fast-growing, capital-intensive, and high-volume producing industries are denoted as Chandlerian industries. We compare the latter with the other industries in the Netherlands and the USA using census data covering the fi…
Ruud Filarski en Gijs Mom, Van transport naar mobiliteit. Deel 1: De transportrevolutie (1800-1900), Deel 2: De mobiliteitsexplosie (1895-2005)
TSEG (Tijdschrift voor Sociale en Economische Geschiedenis) - The Low Countries Journal of Social and Economic History, is het Nederlands-Vlaamse vaktijdschrift op het gebied van de sociale en economische geschiedenis
De veerkracht van de zelfstandige ondernemer. Ondernemers en midden- en kleinbedrijf in Nederland, de Verenigde Staten en Groot-Brittannië vanaf 1950
TSEG (Tijdschrift voor Sociale en Economische Geschiedenis) - The Low Countries Journal of Social and Economic History, is het Nederlands-Vlaamse vaktijdschrift op het gebied van de sociale en economische geschiedenis
Memory and learning: Selecting users in the port of Rotterdam, 1883–1900
During the closing decades of the nineteenth century, the port of Rotterdam experienced very strong growth. Changing views and concrete experiences induced the port to widen the initially limited circle of regular users of berths. We study this case in order to increase our understanding of the dynamic interrelationship between organisational memory and learning. While organisational memory guides the application of routines, this practical exper…
The Rhetoric of Restraint: The Struggle for Legitimacy of the Dutch Temporary Work Agency Industry, 1961–1996
In many countries governments and labor unions have contested the post-war rise of temporary agency work, arguing that this innovation infringed on workers' rights and security. We investigate the rhetorical strategies used by Dutch temporary work agencies (TWAs) to gain legitimacy for their business between 1961 and 1996. Our conclusion is that the TWAs' trade association ABU developed a sophisticated rhetoric of “self-restraint” to legitimize t…
Hans Boot, Opstandig volk. Neergang en terugkeer van losse havenarbeid
TSEG (Tijdschrift voor Sociale en Economische Geschiedenis) - The Low Countries Journal of Social and Economic History, is het Nederlands-Vlaamse vaktijdschrift op het gebied van de sociale en economische geschiedenis
You too, Brutus? Category demise in Rotterdam warehousing, 1871-2011
To counterbalance the proliferation of studies on the emergence of new organizational categories, this study asked how organizational categories disappear. In a historical case study of vemen in Rotterdam warehousing, specific mechanisms contributing to the demise of that category are identified, paying particular attention to category labels, schemas, and members' positioning within categories. A comparison with a similar but more persistent cat…
A co-evolutionary analysis of longevity: Pakhoed and its predecessors
In this study of the warehousing company Pakhoed and its predecessors over a period of 200 years, we analyse the configuration of environmental forces, exploitation and exploration, and three firm-level longevity factors: a tolerant management style and decentralised structure; a strong sense of identity; and a conservative financial policy. The idiosyncratic set-up of Pakhoed's forerunners enabled their long-term survival through co-evolution wi…
Towards a new business history
This article calls for a discussion about business history research. We advocate that the current typical approach in business history – dominantly case study analysis – maintains its prominent position, but the purpose and relevance of this type of research in the scientific method for business history is made more explicit. Moreover, the article proposes the application of additional approaches in business history, which specifically aim to dev…
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