North American Society for Intelligence History,  2023 conference, U. Calgary

Abstract:

As a young man, he experienced the Russian Revolution, imprisonment, and coercion by Soviet
counterintelligence. He moved to Switzerland and then London, the city in which he spent years
working as a professional journalist, befriending and interviewing people ranging from military
trainees to ministers, playwrights to publishers, gathering information on everything from garden
parties to labor unions to foreign policy. He wrote four books and hundreds of articles, was
watched by intelligence agencies in multiple countries, and eventually was deported by Britain as
a spy who wrote secret reports read by Adolf Hitler.
No one remembers him, but now his story is being uncovered. It raises tantalizing questions
about known and unknown historical events, and poses opportunities for further research.

North American Society for Intelligence History, 2022 annual meeting

What can we learn when we mix three ingredients rarely found in the same bowl—intelligence
history, business concepts, and postage stamps? What can we learn about the mindset of an
intelligence organization which offers the world, and itself, an outsized portion of falsehood?
What price does an organization pay when it cannot separate its own facts from fiction?
The paper takes an unusual approach to explore Soviet/Russian state security. Perspectives from
business research about strategic management and decision-making processes are applied to the
complex world of postage stamps. The approach can be used beyond this specific setting—stamps
are sources of information, and they provide an effective anchor for research.
Material from Russian archives and other sources shows that an astonishing number of post-Soviet
postage stamps—about two hundred—have direct or indirect links to state security and intelligence.
This paper discusses a subset—three sets of Russian stamps which commemorate seventeen people
in counterintelligence and military intelligence: a 2002 set of Cheka/OGPU/NKVD agents, a 2018
set of SMERSH agents, and a 2022 set of former KGB counterintelligence chiefs.

Entrepreneurial share relationships: Initial and evolutionary determinants. Pruett, M., & Winter, G. Presented paper at International Council for Small Business (ISCB) World Conference, Halifax, Canada 2008.

Presented paper at Academy of International Business-Southeast Conference, St. Petersburg, FL 2008.

Presented paper at International Council for Small Business (ICSB) World Conference, Halifax, Canada 2008.

Presented teaching case in workshop at North American Case Research Association, Cape Cod, 2005

 Presented paper at NCEC annual meeting.

Paper presented by co-author Ken Kovach at SMA meeting. Later version published in LLJ.

  Southern Management Association, 2003.

    Presented paper at America Online/Center for Innovative Technology Common Ground research conference, Herndon, VA 2002.

 Paper presented by second author Hun Lee at Strategic Management Society, Paris 2002.

Presented paper at Strategic Management Society, San Francisco 2001.

Presented paper at Strategic Management Society, Vancouver 2000.

Paper presented by second author Pandian, J.  at International Research Conference on Quality Management, Melbourne Australia 1996.

Presented paper at Strategic Management Society, Chicago 1993.

  Presented paper at Academy of Management, Las Vegas 1992.