This funded PhD will use one of our recent accessions, the archive of Fair Trade pioneer Robin Murray. More details at the link below...

Fancy doing a funded PhD in the Business History field?

We are looking for someone to work on some business archives donated to the @uoyborthwick.bsky.social by the #Fairtrade pioneer Robin Murray. More details below!

www.york.ac.uk/business-soc...

Makes you wonder what else they are overlooking.

Soft budget constraints in action.

Astonishing that some of the earlier studies on the economic impacts of world cups actually looked at USA '94 but this has all been forgotten.

US hotels slash summer room rates as World Cup demand falls short Industry executives say fans are being put off by expensive match tickets, inflation fears and anti-American sentiment

Successive studies, including my own on this topic, have shown that sporting megaevents such as the FIFA World Cup do not cause tourist boosts; indeed, they often suppress demand as non-sporting tourists stay away. #football #soccer

www.ft.com/content/7fd5...

It is half term, or half semester at universities, or at least at York and others using a semester system, where our spring semester runs from February to June.

No idea why schools would use that terminology though.

Why should motoring be sexy in the first place?

Love that random branch down to the Gulf Coast.

Some praise of the BBC - its good that they've ditched the IPL and are covering the County Championship in the afternoons on 5 Live Sports Extra once more.

Nothing against the IPL as competition, I just could never relate to it. #cricket

Awesome!

I am pretty sure Lima made a model that you could buy in the UK as well, never had it though!

Actually retired quicker than steam!

Nice to see. Never saw them in these colours in the real world but saw pictures often!

@martycricket.bsky.social in Derby can't miss the Brunswick near the railway station, excellent real ale place!

Carribean stuff is on YouTube, no need for expensive TNT etc!

At least the Caribbean four day is starting today if this one gets rained off or doesn't go the distance.

Competitive Advantages of Family Firms - Xavier Jou-Badal Exploring the rise of a 19th-century Barcelona chocolatier, Jou-Badal traces the business strategies that turned a food manufacturer into a bourgeois industrialist, exemplified by the iconic Casa Amatller. Through an analysis of competitive advantages over generations, it offers a case study methodological approach for business historians.

Plesed to announce the latest book in our Frontiers of Management History series with Emerald is now out in ebook format.

Competitive Advantages of Family Firms by Xavier Jou-Badal explores the history of the Barcelona chocolate firm, Chocolate Amatller.

bookstore.emerald.com/competitive-...

Weather forecast looks a bit variable though...

If its Gauge 3 it must be massive, no?

Feels like a good chance if they get back out there today.

The always amazing National Library of Scotland have uploaded a new set of maps - the OS 25 inch 1st edition georeferenced layer, 1855-1880 - Glasgow and Lanarkshire. Facsinating from an urban, transport and architectural history perspective.

maps.nls.uk/additions/#197

Left, because it has the ridiculous thing of Great British Railways written in full beside the logo.

Great to see the submission by @kickitoutofficial.bsky.social to the Independent Football Regulator on #EDI in #football, which we contributed to.

www.kickitout.org/sites/defaul...

How did he get permission to go inside their property if it wasn't official?

A breakthrough: Sport as explanans in management and business history A long time contributor to the book review section of idrottsforum.org, over the years Hans Martin Lundberg has lamented the state of sport studies and research, the problem to his mind being that spo...

Alex Gillett and I's recent book is 'a breakthrough' for sport studies and research.

idrottsforum.org/lunhan_gille...

An accountability moment is what makes AI work for learning Students aren't confused about AI – they're making rational choices in a system that has removed the incentives to learn. Jim Dickinson and Mack Marshall preview findings from new research on learning...

So many universities lack accountability opportunities in their assessments that you can get a reasonable grade with the use of generative AI.

This undermines the claim of universities to be training students for public life.

wonkhe.com/blogs/an-acc...

So popular in Dundee that he was booted out by Edwin Scrymgeour, a Prohibition campaigner. His popularity was such that even the conservative DC Thompson newspapers campaigned against him...

I love a good bullwhip effect to sort out.

An excellent example which I think @leomc76.bsky.social will appreciate!

Yep. Regional policy has bascially been the same thing for 100 years.