Methodologies in management history / guest editors, Wim Van Lent and Gabrielle Durepos.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Van Lent, Wim, editor.

Durepos, Gabrielle, editor.

Series:

Journal of management history ; Volume 25, Number 4

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Management--History.

Management.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (177 pages).

Place of Publication:

[Place of publication not identified] : Emerald Publishing, [2019]

Summary:

Ever since Booth and Rowlinson (2006) proposed a "historic turn" in management and organization studies (MOS), scholars have increasingly recognized the importance of history to understanding organizational life (e.g., Durepos and Mills, 2012; Rowlinson, Hassard and Decker, 2014; Bucheli and Wadhwani, 2014; Suddaby, 2016). Indeed, the historical discipline provides an alternative to the dominant science paradigms in organization studies (Zald, 1993; Kieser, 1994), so studies using a historical approach have the potential to inform various aspects of organization theory (Álvaro-Moya and Donzé, 2016; Söderlund and Lenfle, 2013; Suddaby, 2016; Maclean, Harvey and Clegg, 2016). The last decade has witnessed the growth of a body of work on how, if at all, business historians can bridge the gap between the discipline of history and MOS (e.g., Rowlinson, et al., 2014; De Jong, Higgins and Van Driel, 2015; Whittle and Wilson, 2015; Suddaby, 2016; Durepos, 2015). Collectively, the eight articles featured in the ebook offer examples of innovative and historically sensitive methodology that we feel, increase the management historian toolkit and ultimately enhance the methodological pluralism of historical organization studies as a field.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-83982-137-X