Guest editorial

摘要

It brought us great pleasure to lead a special issue on "Black Business and Management History," the first of its kind for the Journal of Management History. There appears to be a growing interest in this research area, especially since there has been a call in recent times to "decolonize" the curriculum. In this issue, that call has been answered and there are six compelling articles that are poised to make a meaningful contribution to the literature. The first paper, written by J. Kalu Osiri, presented the Igbo management philosophy as having the potential to bring about success in Africa. Osiri proposed a framework that comprised a set of values and three key institutions: the marketplace, the family and the apprenticeship system, and the paper showed that effective leaders are servant-leaders who sacrifice for others. The researcher concluded that Igbos developed a management system based on a philosophy that is African, which is different from the Western system. The second paper, written by Neil Stott and Michelle Fava, reviewed the history of black and minority ethnic housing associations in England since the arrival of Commonwealth migrants. The paper examined how marginalized, racialized groups have achieved and sustained institutional agency over time, through an exploration of the history of BME Housing Associations in England, describing the different types of "institutional work" involved in challenging racialized institutions and establishing new institutions.