Historical organization studies: theory and applications

Table of Contents

Part I: Introduction
1. Historical Organization Studies: Advancing New Directions for Organizational Research
Mairi Maclean, Charles Harvey, Roy Suddaby and Stewart R. Clegg

Part II: Conceptual Advances
2. Writing the Practices of History
Alistair Mutch
3. Towards a Theory of Historical Reflexivity
Gabrielle Durepos and Russ Vince
4. The Organization-as-Iceberg as a Counter Metaphor
Richard Badham, Todd Bridgman and Stephen Cummings
5. Working Towards Critical Historical Studies: An Emancipatory Ontology
Christiane Chihadeh
6. Don’t Talk about History: Indigenous Views about the Past and their Implication for Organization Studies
François Bastien, William M. Foster and Diego M. Coraiola

Part III: Theoretical Applications
7. The Canadian Alouette Women: Reclaiming their Space
Stefanie Ruel, Linda Dyer and Albert J. Mills
8. The Enduring Presence of the Founder: A Historical and Interdisciplinary Perspective on the Organizational Identity of Collection Museums
Sonia Coman and Andrea Casey
9. Institutional Entrepreneurship and the Field of Power: The Emergence of the Global Hotel Industry
Mairi Maclean, Charles Harvey and Roy Suddaby
10. ‘Remember Mackintosh!’ Historical Homology and Historical Affinity in the Design of the Scottish Parliament Building
Ron Kerr and Sarah Robinson
11. Institutional Change as Historical Confluence: The Development of the Nursing Profession in Japan
Ken Sakai
12. Studying the Processes of Managerial Legitimacy and Control of Former State-owned Enterprises in Post-communist Societies: A Longitudinal Study
Anna Soulsby

Part IV: Conclusion
13. At the Intersection of Theory and History: A Research Agenda for Historical Organization Studies
Stewart R. Clegg, Roy Suddaby, Charles Harvey and Mairi Maclean

We are now entering a new phase in the establishment of historical organization studies as a distinctive methodological paradigm within the broad field of organization studies. This book serves both as a landmark in the development of the field and as a key reference tool for researchers and students.

For two decades, organization theorists have emphasized the need for more and better research recognizing the importance of the past in shaping the present and future. By historicizing organizational research, the contexts and forces bearing upon organizations will be more fully recognized, and analyses of organizational dynamics improved. But how, precisely, might a traditionally empirically oriented discipline such as history be incorporated into a theoretically oriented discipline such as organization studies? This book evaluates the current state of play, advances it and identifies the possibilities the new emergent field offers for the future. In addition to providing an important work of reference on the subject for researchers, the book can be used to introduce management and organizational history to a student audience at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels.

The book is a valuable source for wider reading, providing rich reference material in tutorials across organizational studies, or as recommended or required reading on courses with a connection to business or management history.

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