Aligning to disadvantage: How corporate political activity and strategic homophily create path dependence in the firm
Journal Article
Perchard, A., & MacKenzie, N. G. (2021)
Aligning to disadvantage: How corporate political activity and strategic homophily create path dependence in the firm. Human Relations, 74(7), 978-1006. https://doi.org/10.1177/0018726720908923
To what extent should firms get close to government for competitive advantage? What happens if they get too close? In this article we explore how corporate political activity ...
This Thing Called Goodwill: The Reynolds Metals Company and Political Networking in Wartime America
Journal Article
Perchard, A. (2019)
This Thing Called Goodwill: The Reynolds Metals Company and Political Networking in Wartime America. Enterprise and Society, 20(4), 1044-1083. https://doi.org/10.1017/eso.2019.25
This article examines the Reynolds Metals Company’s political networking activities in Washington, D.C., and the state capitals of the U.S. South in the 1940s and 1950s. It ar...
Tin and Global Capitalism, 1850-2000: A History of the "Devil's Metal"
Book
Ingulstad, M., Perchard, A., & Storli, E. (Eds.)
(2014). Tin and Global Capitalism, 1850-2000: A History of the "Devil's Metal". New York: Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781317816157
For most of the twentieth century tin was fundamental for both warfare and welfare. The importance of tin is most powerfully represented by the tin can - an invention which cr...
Business-government relations and national economic models: A review and future research directions in varieties of capitalism and beyond
Journal Article
MacKenzie, N. G., Perchard, A., Miller, C., & Forbes, N. (2021)
Business-government relations and national economic models: A review and future research directions in varieties of capitalism and beyond. Business History, 63(8), 1239-1252. https://doi.org/10.1080/00076791.2021.1924687
This special issue complements and extends existing work in business history to show how the discipline can contribute to the Varieties of Capitalism (VoC) literature. The wor...