Ian G. Jones

Lecturer in Strategy, University of Sheffield

Banking, British business, Modern Britain, Strategy, international business & strategy, International and strategic management, Financial Services
Business Historians at Business Schools

I am a Lecturer in Strategy at the University of Sheffield whose work has focused on British banking over the last 200 years, the wrestling industry, corporate strategy, corporate ethics, organisational memory, corporate archives, and uses of the past.

Recent Conference Participation

2026 BHC Meeting: Presenter, "Cartels and the Co-Creation of Legitimacy: The Case of the National Wrestling Alliance, 1948-88" Discussant, Databasing Co-Creation from Structured and Unstructured Historical Sources
2026 BHC Meeting: Presenter, "Lack of Archives: Methodological Implications from Research on the Ge Family Business" Discussant, Databasing Co-Creation from Structured and Unstructured Historical Sources
2024 BHC Meeting: Presenter, "‘A passing of the guard’? Governance and strategy in the ‘Big Four’ British clearing banks, 1973-2005"
2024 BHC Meeting: Presenter, "“Having been a slave owner and much dissatisfied in being so”: A microhistory of David Barclay and the sale of the Unity Valley Penn"