Editorial
Author(s)
Bowden, Bradley
Griffith University Author(s)
Year published
2016
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n my first editorial in this journal, published in Vol. 22, No. 2, I observed that: “Research should […] be organised and written so as to appeal and have meaning to the widest possible audience”. In the first article, co-authored by Andrew Cardow (an Associate Editor for this journal) and Bill Wilson, is evidence that significant stories can be told in a highly readable fashion. Their account of the history of New Zealand’s savings and postal banks between the 1840s and 1907 speaks not only to these institutions but to the whole national experience. Cardow and Wilson take up their story in the 1840s, when the newly formed ...
View more >n my first editorial in this journal, published in Vol. 22, No. 2, I observed that: “Research should […] be organised and written so as to appeal and have meaning to the widest possible audience”. In the first article, co-authored by Andrew Cardow (an Associate Editor for this journal) and Bill Wilson, is evidence that significant stories can be told in a highly readable fashion. Their account of the history of New Zealand’s savings and postal banks between the 1840s and 1907 speaks not only to these institutions but to the whole national experience. Cardow and Wilson take up their story in the 1840s, when the newly formed colony faced difficulties on many fronts: a chronic lack of infrastructure, a penurious government and ongoing frontier wars with the indigenous Maori – one of the proudest and most formidable people on the planet. In legislating for the formation of savings banks, so Cardow and Wilson demonstrate, the New Zealand Government sought to use a British-born financial model for fundamental different goals to that intended by its original instigators.
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View more >n my first editorial in this journal, published in Vol. 22, No. 2, I observed that: “Research should […] be organised and written so as to appeal and have meaning to the widest possible audience”. In the first article, co-authored by Andrew Cardow (an Associate Editor for this journal) and Bill Wilson, is evidence that significant stories can be told in a highly readable fashion. Their account of the history of New Zealand’s savings and postal banks between the 1840s and 1907 speaks not only to these institutions but to the whole national experience. Cardow and Wilson take up their story in the 1840s, when the newly formed colony faced difficulties on many fronts: a chronic lack of infrastructure, a penurious government and ongoing frontier wars with the indigenous Maori – one of the proudest and most formidable people on the planet. In legislating for the formation of savings banks, so Cardow and Wilson demonstrate, the New Zealand Government sought to use a British-born financial model for fundamental different goals to that intended by its original instigators.
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Journal Title
Journal of Management History
Volume
22
Issue
4
Subject
Marketing
History and philosophy of specific fields
Social Sciences
Management
Business & Economics