Home›Open QuestionsCategoryOpen Questions14 entries. Click any to see everything it connects to.BrowseCompareCompare At A Past YearEnter a year to compare these entries as the atlas records them at that moment. Leave it empty for the present. A year before the common era is entered with a minus sign, so 44 BCE is minus 44.Show This YearSelect all 14Does direct-to-consumer have a defensible single origin year, or only a long practice history with a distinct modern resurgence?Open Questions2 linksIn what era did licensing emerge as a distinct commercial business model, rather than only a legal instrument?Open Questions2 linksIn what specific year, and by which publisher, did the subscription business model for periodicals first take hold?Open Questions2 linksIn what year did Douglas McGregor first publish Theory X and Theory Y?Open Questions2 linksIn what year, and in what industry, did business process outsourcing first take the form recognized today, rather than only general contracting-out of a business function?Open Questions2 linksIn what year, or decade, did dropshipping emerge as a named retail practice distinct from ordinary mail-order drop-shipping arrangements?Open Questions2 linksIn what year, or in what industry first, did white-label manufacturing emerge as a named practice distinct from ordinary private contract manufacturing?Open Questions2 linksIs there a documented year or event that marks the origin of horizontal integration as a named business strategy?Open Questions2 linksWhat is the earliest documented specific instance of the subscription business model, beyond the century Wikipedia gives for its origin?Open Questions2 linksWhat is the earliest documented use of loss-leader pricing as a deliberate retail strategy, as distinct from the later, well-dated instances the source article actually names?Open Questions2 linksWhat year, and by whom, did the razor-and-blades pricing model actually emerge?Open Questions2 linksWhat year, and by whom, is total quality management's coinage and rise to prominence best dated?Open Questions2 linksWhether Entrepreneurship Is Best Explained by Trait or ProcessOpen Questions2 linksWho actually originated SWOT analysis, and is the popular attribution to Albert S. Humphrey alone accurate?Open Questions2 links