Economia Aziendale

Management andAccounting

in Historical Perspective

Una ricerca interdisciplinare

• Irrilevanza dei SSD

• Management and Accounting- accounting history- strategia in prospettiva storica- ma anche mktg history? etc.

• Contatti con storici diversi: - storici di business- storici economici- paesi/mondi diversi

Storia: pensiero o pratiche?

• history of thought- evolution of management and accounting thought- “histories of accounting histories”- lack of historicity in mngt research/literatures

But even more interesting/intriguing:

• history of practices- mngt & accounting as an “old issue”- before industrial revolution- back to the renaissance

Main focus (so far): Venice Arsenal, 1580-1640

WHY caring for history• Several reasons.

One in particular:theory falsification

• History as“extreme management”:

what’s left of management- as we know it / teach it -when usingtime anomalies

Bringing in in the tool-kit:the debate on decision-making

Current/future research

Implications for the Great Divergence debate:

• from a micro focus

• e.g. comparing Venice/Ottoman Arsenalse.g. comparing Venice with earlier Chinese contextse.g. the Jesuit in knowledge transfer from W to E (with Rebecca?)….

• Management & accounting history in broaderintellectual debates

An international research network

International network:

• EIASM series

• co-authorships: S. Carmona, GSB, Spain;M. Martini, Université Paris Diderot, Paris;F. Rossi, Archivio di Stato, Venezia;S. Zambon, Università di Ferrara;Q. Xue, Nanjin University)

• joint research: Bulent Ari, Dolmabahce Palace, Istanbul;Kent Deng, LSE, London;Qingmei Xue, Nanjin University