Editorial

摘要

We begin this fourth year of Journal of Management History's (JMH's) reincarnation with an issue that is replete with synchronicity, a concept brought to attention by Jung (1972). The first paper, a literary biography of two of management history's outstanding contributors, Dan Wren and Art Bedeian, is followed by an example of Dan Wren's continuing contribution to the field, and then a paper involving one of Art Bedeian's favourite subjects, scientific management. The second-half of the issue has a series of interconnected papers relating to the positive influence of religion and spirituality on behaviour and organizational performance, an exploration of the differences between accountability and responsibility in a public service context and, finally, the influence of CEO values on a firm's ethics and behaviour. Attempts to represent the achievements of colleagues can descend into hagiography rather than biography, but this is not a problem for Abraham et al. (2009), who provide a balanced analysis of the histories of two outstanding management historians, Dan Wren and Art Bedeian. Abraham and his colleagues trace Wren's and Bedeian's intellectual and institutional pedigrees, utilising, inter alia, video interviews of each author. One focus of this effort is to be able to discern how their own narration of the past might explain their present-day achievements. It also provides important insights into the way these two prolific contributors to the body of management knowledge have gone about their work of interpretation and analysis and how they have arrived at the various conclusions reflected in their publications.