Historical Organization Studies: Theory and Applications

Synopsis

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.

Copyright:

2021

Book Details

Book Quality:

Publisher Quality

Book Size:

250 Pages

ISBN-13:

9781000259520

Related ISBNs:

9780367471224, 9781003033592, 9780367471217

Publisher:

Taylor and Francis

Date of Addition:

11/26/20

Copyrighted By:

selection and editorial matter, Mairi Maclean, Stewart R. Clegg, Roy Suddaby and Charles Harvey

Adult content:

No

Language:

English

Has Image Descriptions:

No

Categories:

History, Nonfiction, Business and Finance, Sociology

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Bookshare Staff

Usage Restrictions:

This is a copyrighted book.

Edited by:

Mairi Maclean

Edited by:

Stewart R. Clegg

Edited by:

Roy Suddaby

Edited by:

Charles Harvey