Christopher Kobrak (1950–2017)
Subjects, Sources, and Serendipity
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9626316 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Jeff Fear (0000-0003-4029-9396, University of Glasgow, corresponding author), Jeffrey Fear |
| Year | 2017 |
| Volume | 91 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 365-375 |
| Publication date | 2017-01-01 |
| 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/s0007680517000757 |
| OpenAlex | W2740484392 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 22 |
a few days before his sixty- seventh birthday. He was a trustee of many of our business history associations and a personal friend. He was a larger-than-life presence at most of the major business history conferences, with his booming voice easily heard above the din of the general conversation. Speaking with Christopher McKenna of the Sad Business School at Oxford University, he and I both realized we had lost one of our consummate academic-social networkers for the field, a person who brought together people on both sides of the Atlantic for vigorous discussions over dinners, in meetings, at workshops, and over glasses of wine. Planning to work with Chris on yet another collaboration in January, I had spent the 2017 New Year's Eve with him. He was in excellent spirits. As usual, he was talkative, engaged, energetic, and combative in his entertaining way; he was debating with his guests, glass of wine in hand, and enjoying being back
Action (physics · Advertising · Business · Content (measure theory · Epistemology · Physics · Serendipity · Computer Science · Contemporary Sociological Theory and Practice · Historical Economic and Social Studies · Mathematics · Philosophy · Political and Economic history of UK and US
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Varieties of business history
Army, Industry, and Labor in Germany, 1914-1918
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| Unique citing works | 1 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,14 |
| Citation span | 2019 - 2019 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |