The Correspondence of Will & Ju Stockton 1845-1869

The letters of Colonel William T. Stockton and his wife Julia Telfair Stockton to each other and a few others between 1845-1869 as transcribed by Herman Ulmer Jr.https://digitalcommons.unf.edu/northeast_fla_books/1009/thumbnail.jp

Through a Glass, Darkly:The CIA and Oral History

This article broaches the thorny issue of how we may study the history of the CIA by utilizing oral history interviews. This article argues that while oral history interviews impose particular demands upon the researcher, they are particularly pronounced in relation to studying the history of intelligence services. This article, nevertheless, also argues that while intelligence history and oral history each harbour their own epistemological perils and biases, pitfalls which may in fact be pronounced when they are conjoined, the relationship between them may nevertheless be a productive one. Indeed, each field may enrich the other provided we have thought carefully about the linkages between them: this article's point of departure. The first part of this article outlines some of the problems encountered in studying the CIA by relating them to the author's own work. This involved researching the CIA's role in US foreign policy towards Afghanistan since a landmark year in the history of the late Cold War, 1979 (i.e. the year the Soviet Union invaded that country). The second part of this article then considers some of the issues historians must confront when applying oral history to the study of the CIA. To bring this within the sphere of cognition of the reader the author recounts some of his own experiences interviewing CIA officers in and around Washington DC. The third part then looks at some of the contributions oral history in particular can make towards a better understanding of the history of intelligence services and the CIA

Virtual executive leadership in the multinational engineering service industry

Virtual executive leaders in the multinational engineering service industry are playing a crucial role in organizational success and new business development. This qualitative grounded study explores virtual executive leaders in predominantly the multinational engineering service industry to determine common themes concentrating on the participants, ideas, opinions, impressions, and feelings. The underlining objective of the study was to determine the common themes in the virtual construct within the multinational engineering service industry. The second objective was to develop a meaningful and straightforward virtual organizational leadership model that would provide added value to the industry and corporate executives faced with leading within the new virtual domain. Participants described a unique picture depicting the importance of: (a) building trust, (b) creating a combined view or objectives, (c) addressing the soft issues with an increased emphasis on interpersonal skills, and (d) managing information overload

Developing historical consciousness in management learners

This article argues and advocates strategies for the development of historical consciousness to stimulate both first- and second-order critical reflexivity in management students with the goal of creating critical management learners. The historic turn in management and organizational studies has demonstrated that history is not the same as the past. This understanding has had implications for many areas of investigation but has not been felt as significantly as it might be in management learning and education. To make our argument, we discuss how archives can be used to stimulate the process of historical consciousness in management learners and we provide an illustrative example of how this can be done, together with a checklist to aid instructors in facilitating student use of archival material