Staff Profile

Professor of Business History and Management and Director of the Centre for Research on Entrepreneurship, Wealth and Philanthropy

Qualifications

BSc (Bristol), Economics and Economic History
PhD (Bristol), International Business History

Previous Positions

Pro-Vice-Chancellor, Humanities and Social Sciences, Newcastle University, (2008-15)

Dean, Strathclyde Business School (2005-08)

Dean, Bristol Business School (1999-2005)

Director, Royal Holloway School of Management (1990-99)

Chairman, Central Middlesex Hospital NHS Trust (1994-99)

Research Interests

Business strategy. Business elites. Entrepreneurship. Philanthropy. Historical organization studies. 

Current Work

I am currently engaged in three main sets of projects:

1. Entrepreneurship and Philanthropy conducted with various members of the Centre for Research on Entrepreneurship Wealth and Philanthropy (REWP): http://www.ncl.ac.uk/rewp.

• Inequality and large scale giving in the U.S. (with Gerhard Kling and Mairi Maclean)

• Philanthropic identities (with Mairi Maclean).

• Philanthropy, enterprise and society in the North East of England (with Mairi Maclean, Michael Price and Vesela Harizanova)

• Cross-national diffusion of philanthropic models (with Frank Mueller, Ruomei Yang and Mairi Maclean)
  

• Philanthropy and higher education (with Alison Gibson and Frank Mueller)

• Events and elite philanthropic networking (PhD student Ruomei Yang, jointly supervised with Frank Mueller)

• Philanthropy and socio-economic development in Pakistan (PhD student Muhammad Khan, jointly supervised with Michael Price).

2. Business Elites and the Field of Power conducted with Mairi Maclean and Gerhard Kling. This long standing project has entered a new phase focused on the survival strategies of business elites within the field of power using Boardex data for the U.S. and applying the original quantitative methodology we detail in ‘Establishing causal order in longitudinal studies combining binary and continuous dependent variables’, Organizational Research Methods, vol. 20(4), 2017: 770-799.  

3. Historical Organization Studies conducted with Mairi Maclean, Stewart Clegg, Roy Suddaby and Bill Foster: https://www.researchgate.net/project/Historical-Organization-Studies. We define historical organization studies as ‘organizational research that draws extensively on historical data, methods and knowledge to promote historically informed theoretical narratives attentive to both disciplines’. Group members have written extensively on conceptual and methodological issues and are responsible for developing and applying key constructs such as dual integrity and rhetorical history.

Postgraduate Supervision

Professor Harvey has supervised fifty doctoral projects to a successful conclusion. He undertakes supervision in the fields of Strategy, Leadership, Entrepreneurship, Organization Studies, Philanthropy and Historical Organization Studies.

Esteem Indicators

Board member of the Community Foundation for Tyne & Wear and Northumberland. (2009-18). Visiting Professor Hunter Centre for Entreprenuership, Strathclyde University. Co-Editor, Association of Business Schools "Guide to Academic Journal Quality". Former joint editor (1988-2007) of Business History, Chairman (1994-99) of Central Middlesex NHS Trust, member (1993-97) Research Grants Board, ESRC.

Industrial Relevance

Professor Harvey has worked as consultant and management educator on major assignments for numerous organisations, including IBM, Sainsburys, J P Morgan, Babcock International, Bombardier Transportation and several NHS Trusts.

Research Methods

I contribute sessions to the Humanities and Social Sciences doctoral training programme on effectiveness in doctoral supervision and research design and the social-cultural theories of Pierre Bourdieu.

• Articles

  • Price M, Wong N, Harvey C, Maclean M. Strategic sensemaking by social entrepreneurs: Creating strategies for social innovation. International Journal of Entrepreneurial Behaviour & Research 2023, 29(11), 292-311.
  • Sarpong D, Maclean M, Harvey C. Relational interdependencies and the intra-EU mobility of African European Citizens. Human Relations 2024, 77(2), 200-232.
  • Khan MSM, Harvey C, Price M, Maclean M. Philanthropy and socioeconomic development: The role of large voluntary organizations in bridging social divides in Pakistan. VOLUNTAS: International Journal of Voluntary and Nonprofit Organizations 2023, 35, 1335–1346.
  • Maclean M, Harvey C, McGovern T, Shaw G. Elite solidarity, social responsibility, and the contested origins of Britain's first business schools. Academy of Management Learning & Education 2023, 22(2), 191-215.
  • Harvey C, Gibson A, Maclean M, Mueller F. Philanthropy and the sustaining of global elite university domination. Organization 2024, 31(3), 433-457.
  • Maclean M, Shaw G, Harvey C, Stringer G. Methodological Openness in Business History Research: Looking Afresh at the British Interwar Management Movement. Business History Review 2022, 96(4), 805-832.
  • Maclean M, Harvey C, Suddaby R. Institutional biography and the institutionalization of a new organizational template: Building the global branded hotel chain. Business History 2024, 66(1), 311-339.
  • Maclean M, Shaw G, Harvey C. Business as service? Human relations and the British interwar management movement. Human Relations 2022, 75(8), 1585-1614.
  • Yang R, Harvey C, Mueller F, Maclean M. The role of mediators in the diffusion of the community foundation model of philanthropy. Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly 2021, 50(5), 959-982.
  • Maclean M, Harvey C, Golant B, Sillince J. The role of innovation narratives in accomplishing organizational ambidexterity. Strategic Organization 2021, 19(4), 693-721.
  • Harvey C, Gordon J, Maclean M. The ethics of entrepreneurial philanthropy. Journal of Business Ethics 2021, 171, 33-49.
  • Maclean M, Harvey C, Yang R, Mueller F. Elite philanthropy in the United States and United Kingdom in the new age of inequalities. International Journal of Management Reviews 2021, 23(3), 330-352.
  • Maclean M, Shaw G, Harvey C, Booth A. Management Learning in Historical Perspective: Rediscovering Rowntree and the British Interwar Management Movement. Academy of Management Learning & Education 2020, 19(1), 1-20.
  • Harvey C, Maclean M, Price M. Executive remuneration and the limits of disclosure as an instrument of corporate governance. Critical Perspectives on Accounting 2020, 69, 102089.
  • Harvey C, Yang R, Mueller F, Maclean M. Bourdieu, strategy and the field of power. Critical Perspectives on Accounting 2020, 73, 102199.
  • Suddaby R, Coraiola D, Harvey C, Foster W. History and the Micro‐foundations of Dynamic Capabilities. Strategic Management Journal 2019, 41(3), 530-556.
  • Harvey C, Maclean M, Suddaby R. Historical perspectives on entrepreneurship and philanthropy. Business History Review 2019, 93(3), 443-471.
  • Maclean M, Harvey C, Suddaby R, O'Gorman K. Political ideology and the discursive construction of the multinational hotel industry. Human Relations 2018, 71(6), 766-795.
  • Maclean M, Harvey C, Sillince JAA, Golant BD. Intertextuality, Rhetorical History and the Uses of the Past in Organizational Transition. Organization Studies 2018, 39(12), 1733-1755.
  • Price M, Harvey C, Maclean M, Campbell D. From Cadbury to Kay: Discourse, intertextuality and the evolution of UK corporate governance . Accounting, Auditing & Accountability Journal 2018, 31(5), 1542-1562.
  • Maclean M, Harvey C, Clegg S. Organization Theory in Business and Management History: Present Status and Future Prospects. Business History Review 2017, 91(3), 457-481.
  • Maclean M, Harvey C, Stringfellow L. Narrative, metaphor and the subjective understanding of historic identity transition. Business History 2017, 59(8), 1218-1241.
  • Kling G, Harvey C, Maclean M. Establishing causal order in longitudinal studies combining binary and continuous dependent variables. Organizational Research Methods 2017, 20(4), 770-799.
  • Maclean M, Harvey C, Kling G. Elite Business Networks and the Field of Power: A Matter of Class?. Theory, Culture & Society 2017, 34(5-6), 127-151.
  • Maclean M, Harvey C. 'Give it back, George': Network dynamics in the philanthropic field. Organization Studies 2016, 37(3), 399-423.
  • Maclean M, Harvey C, Clegg S. Conceptualizing historical organization studies. Academy of Management Review 2016, 41(4), 609-632.
  • Golant B, Sillince J, Harvey C, Maclean M. Rhetoric of stability and change: The organizational identity work of institutional leadership. Human Relations 2015, 68(4), 607-631.
  • Maclean M, Harvey C, Gordon J, Shaw E. Identity, storytelling and the philanthropic journey. Human Relations 2015, 68(10), 1623-1652.
  • Rowlinson M, Harvey C, Kelly A, Morris H, Todeva E. Accounting for Research Quality: Research Audits and the Journal Rankings Debate. Critical Perspectives on Accounting 2015, 26, 2-22.
  • Rowlinson M, Harvey C, Kelly A, Morris H. The Use and Abuse of Journal Quality Lists. Organization 2014, 18(4), 443-446.
  • Maclean M, Harvey C, Kling G. Pathways to Power: Class, Hyper-Agency and the French Corporate Elite. Organization Studies 2014, 35(6), 825-855.
  • Maclean M, Harvey C, Sillince JAA, Golant BD. Living up to the past? Ideological sensemaking in organizational transition. Organization 2014, 21(4), 543-567.
  • Maclean M, Harvey C. Elite connectivity and concerted action in French organization. International Journal of Organizational Analysis 2014, 22(4), 449-469.
  • Shaw E, Gordon J, Harvey C, Maclean M. Exploring contemporary entrepreneurial philanthropy. International Small Business Journal 2013, 31(5), 580-599.
  • Kelly A, Harvey C, Morris H, Rowlinson M. Accounting Journals and the ABS Guide: A Review of Evidence and Inference. Management and Organizational History 2013, 8(4), 415-431.
  • Maclean M, Harvey C, Gordon J. Social Innovation, Social Entrepreneurship and the Practice of Contemporary Entrepreneurial Philanthropy. International Small Business Journal 2012, 31(7), 747-763.
  • Maclean M, Harvey C, Chia R. Sensemaking, storytelling and the legitimization of elite business careers. Human Relations 2012, 65(1), 17-40.
  • Maclean M, Harvey C, Chia R. Reflexive practice and the making of elite business careers. Management Learning 2012, 43(4), 385-404.
  • Harvey C, Press J, Maclean M. William Morris, Cultural Leadership, and the Dynamics of Taste. Business History Review 2011, 85(2), 245-271.
  • Morris H, Harvey C, Kelly A, Rowlinson M. Food for Thought? A Rejoinder on Peer-review and RAE2008 Evidence. Accounting Education: An International Journal 2011, 20(6), 561-673.
  • Harvey C, Maclean M, Gordon J, Shaw E. Andrew Carnegie and the foundations of contemporary entrepreneurial philanthropy. Business History 2011, 53(3), 425-450.
  • Maclean M, Harvey C, Chia R. Dominant Corporate Agents and the Power Elite in France and Britain. Organization Studies 2010, 31(3), 327-348.
  • Morris H, Harvey C, Kelly A. Journal rankings and the ABS Journal Quality Guide. Management Decision 2009, 47(9), 1441-1451.
  • Finkelstein S, Harvey C, Lawton T. Vision by Design: A Reflexive Approach to Enterprise Regeneration. Journal of Business Strategy 2008, 29(2), 4-13.
  • Harvey C, Maclean M. Capital theory and the dynamics of elite business networks in Britain and France. The Sociological Review 2008, 56(s1), 103-120.
  • Maclean M, Harvey C, Press J. Managerialism and the Post-war Evolution of the French National Business System. Business History 2007, 49(4), 531-551.
  • Mueller F, Sillince J, Harvey C, Howorth C. ‘A Rounded Picture is What We Need: Rhetorical Strategies, Arguments, and the Negotiation of Change in a UK Hospital Trust’. Organization Studies 2004, 25(1), 75-93.
  • Mueller F, Harvey C, Howorth C. The Contestation of Archetypes: Negotiating Scripts in a UK Hospital Trust Board. Journal of Management Studies 2003, 40(8), 1971-1995.
  • Howorth C, Mueller F, Harvey C. The Diffusion of an Organisational Innovation: Adopting Patient Focused Care in an UK NHS Trust. Competition and Change 2002, 6(2), 213-232.
  • Simpson P, French R, Harvey C. Leadership and Negative Capability. Human Relations 2002, 55(10), 1209-1226.
  • Corfield P, Green E, Harvey C. Westminster Man: Charles James Fox and His Electorate. Parliamentary History 2001, 20(2), 157-185.
  • Sillince J, Harindranath G, Harvey C. Getting Acceptance that Radically New Working Practices are Required: Institutionalization of Arguments about Change in a Healthcare Organization. Human Relations 2001, 54(11), 1421-1454.
  • Harvey C, Hayward T, Maclean M. ‘Good Luck or Fine Judgement? The Growth and Development of the Japanese Electronics Industry, 1945 – 1995’. Asia Pacific Business Review 2001, 8(1), 102-126.
  • Harvey C, Press J. Management and the Taff Vale Strike of 1900. Business History 2000, 42(2), 63-86.
  • Harvey C, Denton J. To Come of Age: The Antecedents of Organisational Learning. Journal of Management Studies 1999, 36(7), 897-918.
  • Harvey C, Green E, Corfield P. Continuity, change and specialization within metropolitan London: the economy of Westminster, 1750 – 1820. Economic History Review 1999, 52(3), 469-493.
  • Harvey, C. and Press, J. ‘John Ruskin and the Ethical Foundations of Morris & Company’. Journal of Business Ethics, 14 (3), pp. 181-194. ‘John Ruskin and the Ethical Foundations of Morris & Company’. Journal of Business Ethics 1995, 14 (3), pp. 181-194.
  • Harvey, C. and Press, J. ‘The City and International Mining’. Business History 1990, 32 (3), pp. 98-119.
  • Harvey, C. and Press, J. ‘Overseas Investment and the Professional Advance of British Metal Mining Engineers, 1851 – 1914’. Economic History Review 1989, 42 (1) pp. 64-86.
  • Harvey, C. and Taylor, P. Mineral Wealth and Economic Development, Foreign Direct Investment in Spain, 1850 – 1913’. Economic History Review 1987, 40 (2), pp. 185-207.
  • Harvey, C. and Press, J. ‘William Morris and the Marketing of Art’. Business History 1986, 28 (4), pp. 36-54.
  • Alford, B. and Harvey, C. ‘Copperbelt Merger: The Formation of the Rhokana Corporation’. Business History Review 1980, pp. 330-358.
  • Harvey, C. ‘Business History and the Problem of Entrepreneurship’. Business History 1979, 21 (1), pp. 45-69.
  • Harvey, C. ‘Politics and Pyrites during the Spanish Civil War’. Economic History Review 1978, 31 (1), pp. 89-104.

• Authored Books

  • Green EM, Corfield PJ, Harvey C. Elections in Metropolitan London Volume 2: Metropolitan Polls. Bristol: Bristol Academic Press, 2013.
  • Green EM, Corfield PJ, Harvey C. Elections in Metropolitan London Volume 1: Arguments and Evidence. Bristol: Bristol Academic Press, 2013.
  • Finkelstein S, Harvey C, Lawton T. Breakout Strategy: Meeting the Challenge of Double-Digit Growth. New York: McGraw-Hill, 2007.
  • Maclean M, Harvey C, Press J. Business Elites and Corporate Governance in France and the UK. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006.
  • Lewis, M., Fitzgerald, R. and Harvey, C. The Growth of Nations: Culture, Competitiveness and the Problem of Globalisation. Bristol: Bristol Academic Press, 1996.
  • Harvey, C. and Press, J. Databases in Historical Research: Theory, Methods and Applications. London: Macmillan, 1996.
  • Harvey, C. and Press, J. Art, Enterprise and Ethics: The Life and Works of William Morris. London: Frank Cass, 1996.
  • Harvey, C. and Press, J. William Morris: Design and Enterprise in Victorian Britain. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1991.
  • Harvey, C. The Rio Tinto Company, 1873-1954: An Economic History of a Leading International Mining Concern. Penzance: Alison Hodge, 1981.

• Book Chapters

  • Harvey C, Maclean M. Historical organization studies. In: Decker,S;Foster,WM;Giovannoni,E, ed. Handbook of Historical Methods for Management. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, 2023, pp.17-34.
  • Harvey C, Press J. The Businessman. In: Anna Mason, ed. William Morris. London, UK: Thames & Hudson/V&A, 2021, pp.44-52.
  • Maclean M, Harvey C, Suddaby R. Institutional entrepreneurship and the field of power: The emergence of the global hotel industry. In: Maclean, M; Clegg, SR; Suddaby, R; Harvey, C, ed. Historical Organization Studies: Theory and Applications. London: Routledge, 2021, pp.149-169.
  • Maclean M, Harvey C, Suddaby R, Clegg SR. Historical organization studies: Advancing new directions for organizational research. In: Maclean, M; Clegg, SR; Suddaby, R; Harvey, C, ed. Historical Organization Studies: Theory and Applications. London: Routledge, 2021, pp.1-22.
  • Clegg SR, Suddaby R, Harvey C, Maclean M. At the intersection of theory and history: A research agenda for historical organization studies. In: Maclean, M; Clegg, SR; Suddaby, R; Harvey, C, ed. Historical Organization Studies: Theory and Applications. London: Routledge, 2021, pp.227-241.
  • Maclean M, Harvey C. Crafting philanthropic identities. In: Brown, A, ed. The Oxford Handbook of Identities in Organizations. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 2020, pp.637-653.
  • Harvey C, Press J, Maclean M. Business in the Creative Life of William Morris. In: Boos FS, ed. The Routledge Companion to William Morris. New York: Routledge, 2020, pp.40-57.
  • Maclean M, Harvey C, Kling G. Business elites and the field of power in France. In: Morgan, G.; Hirsch, P.; Quack, S, ed. Elites on Trial. Bingley: Emerald Group Publishing Limited, 2015, pp.189-219.
  • Harvey C, Maclean M. Transnational Boards and Governance Regimes in Britain and France. In: Djelic, M.-L., Quack, S, ed. Transnational Communities: Shaping Global Economic Governance. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010, pp.107-129.
  • French R, Simpson P, Harvey C. Negative Capability: A Contribution to the Understanding of Creative Leaders. In: Sievers, B, ed. Psychoanalytic Studies of Organizations. London: Karnac, 2010, pp.197-216.
  • Maclean M, Harvey C. The Continuing Diversity of Corporate Governance Regimes: France and Britain Compared. In: Strange, R., Jackson, G, ed. International Business and Corporate Governance: Strategy, Performance and Institutional Change. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008, pp.208-25.
  • Sillince JAA, Harvey C, Harindranath H. Conflicting rhetorical positions on trust and commitment: talk-as-action in IT project failure. In: Hodgson,D; Cicmil,S, ed. Making projects critical. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006, pp.294-315.
  • Sillince JAA, Mueller F, Harvey C, Howorth C. Biographical identity, social self and the role of authenticity in organizations. In: Kornberger, M., & Gudergan, S, ed. Only Connect: Neat Words, Networks and Identities. Lund: Liber and Copenhagen Business School Press, 2006, pp.48-69.

• Conference Proceedings (inc. Abstract)

  • Maclean M, Harvey C, Suddaby R. Multi-temporality and the Ghostly: Capturing the Spirit of Time Past and Yet to Come?. In: Academy of Management Proceedings. 2022, Seattle: Academy of Management.

• Edited Books

  • Maclean M, Clegg SR, Suddaby R, Harvey C, ed. Historical Organization Studies: Theory and Applications. London, UK: Routledge, 2021.
  • Harvey, C. and Jones, G. Eds, ed. Organisational Capability and Competitive Advantage. London: Frank Cass, 1992.
  • Harvey, C. and Press, J. Eds, ed. Studies in the Business History of Bristol. Bristol: Bristol Academic Press, 1988.

• Editorial

  • Mason C, Harvey C. Entrepreneurship: Contexts, opportunities and processes. Business History 2013, 55(1), 1-8.