Bearing ‘the burden and heat of the day’
The experience of business failure in Douglas & Grant Ltd
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8420495 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Robin Mackie (0000-0002-7534-409X, The Open University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2012 |
| Volume | 54 |
| Issue | 5 |
| Pages | 689-712 |
| Publication date | 2012-08-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Business History (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0007-6791 • E-ISSN: 1743-7938 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/00076791.2012.683418 |
| OpenAlex | W2077675625 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 28 |
This article looks at the role of business culture in a business failure. Using the extensive records of the Scottish engineering firm of Douglas & Grant Ltd., it explores how the choices made by the firm's leaders were shaped by their values and assumptions. The article argues that the failure of the firm to manage expansion in the first decades of the twentieth century was rooted in these values, which both encouraged its leaders to take risks and constrained their ability to manage change
Business · Business failure · Business history · Economics · Management · Political science · Finance · Historical Economic and Social Studies
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| Citations per year | 0.17 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2014 - 2015 (2) |
| Highly cited | No |