Language and Culture in a Liverpool Merchant Family Firm, 1870–1950
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9622020 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Gordon Boyce (0000-0002-8351-3420, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2010 |
| Volume | 84 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 1-26 |
| Publication date | 2010-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Business History Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0007-6805 • E-ISSN: 2044-768X |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0007680500001227 |
| OpenAlex | W2103441361 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 9 |
| References cited | 19 |
Ethnographic methods are applied to this investigation of the links between language and business culture found in letters exchanged in the 1880s, 1900s, 1930s, and 1940s among members of a long-lived family-owned business. The letters are contained in three sets of correspondence between three different generations of the Bates family, who were merchants, shipowners, and private bankers based in Liverpool. The aim is to develop a different perspective from which to consider communicating processes, business culture, social mobility, and the socialization of managers. The study invites consideration of the appropriateness of accepted behavioral assumptions attributed to economic actors and the significance of judgment and instinct in decision-making
BATES · Economics · Ethnography · Family business · Instinct · Management · Perspective (graphical · Social science · Socialization · Sociology · Anthropology · Computer Science · Linguistic Variation and Morphology · Migration, Ethnicity, and Economy · Multilingual Education and Policy
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Control through Communication
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Scale and Scope
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| Unique citing works | 9 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,64 |
| Citation span | 2012 - 2022 (11) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 9 |