Historical Methods in Management and Organizational Research: A Bibliography

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In preparation for the development workshops devoted to methods (see Clio Palooza above) we have created a preliminary bibliography of references of papers, chapters, and books devoted to historical methods in management and organizational research. If you’ve got suggested additions to the list please let us know by coming to one of the sessions or by commenting on this post.

Historical Methods in Management and Organizational Research:
A Bibliography
August 2017

Coraiola, D.M., Foster, W.M. and Suddaby, R., 2015. Varieties of history in organization studies. The Routledge companion to management and organizational history, pp.206-221.

Decker, S., 2013. The silence of the archives: Business history, post-colonialism and archival ethnography. Management & Organizational History, 8(2), pp.155-173.

Decker, S., 2015. Mothership reconnection. The Routledge Companion to Management and Organizational History, p.222.

Durepos, G. and Mills, A.J., 2012. Actor-network theory, ANTi-history and critical organizational historiography. Organization, 19(6), pp.703-721.

Forbes, Daniel P., and David A. Kirsch. “The study of emerging industries: Recognizing and responding to some central problems.” Journal of Business Venturing 26, no. 5 (2011): 589-602.

Godfrey, P.C., Hassard, J., O’Connor, E.S., Rowlinson, M. and Ruef, M., 2016. What is organizational history? Toward a creative synthesis of history and organization studies. Academy of Management Review, 41(4), pp.590-608.

Heller, M. (20016). ‘Foucault, Discourse and the Birth of Public Relations’, Enterprise & Society, 17(3): 651-677.

Harvey, C. and Press, J., 1996. Databases in historical research: Theory, methods and applications. London: Macmillan.

Kirsch, D., Moeen, M. and Wadhwani, R.D., 2014. Historicism and industry emergence: industry knowledge from pre-emergence to stylized fact. Organizations in time: History, theory, methods, 217.

Kipping, M., Wadhwani, R.D. and Bucheli, M., 2014. Analyzing and interpreting historical sources: A basic methodology. Organizations in time: History, theory, methods, pp.305-329.

Lipartito, K., 2014. Historical sources and data. Organizations in time: History, theory, methods, pp.284-304.

Maclean, M., Harvey, C. and Clegg, S.R., 2016. Conceptualizing historical organization studies. Academy of Management Review, 41(4), pp.609-632.

Maclean, M., Harvey, C. and Clegg, S.R., 2017. Organization Theory in Business and Management History: Present Status and Future Prospects. Business History Review, 91(4), forthcoming.

Murmann, J. P. (2010). “Constructing Relational Databases to Study Life Histories on Your PC or Mac.” Historical Methods: A Journal of Quantitative and Interdisciplinary History 43(3): 109 – 123.

Pfefferman, T., 2016. Reassembling the archives: business history knowledge production from an actor-network perspective. Management & Organizational History, 11(4), pp.380-398.

Rowlinson, M., Hassard, J. and Decker, S., 2014. Research strategies for organizational history: A dialogue between historical theory and organization theory. Academy of Management Review, 39(3), pp.250-274.

Stutz, C. and Sachs, S., 2016. Facing the Normative Challenges: The Potential of Reflexive Historical Research. Business & Society, p.0007650316681989.

Taylor, S., 2015. Critical hermeneutics for critical organizational history. The Routledge Companion to Management and Organizational History, p.143.

Vaara, E. and Lamberg, J.A., 2016. Taking historical embeddedness seriously: Three historical approaches to advance strategy process and practice research. Academy of Management Review, 41(4), pp.633-657.

Taylor, S., Bell, E. and Cooke, B., 2009. Business history and the historiographical operation. Management & Organizational History, 4(2), pp.151-166.

Wadhwani, R.D., 2016. Historical Methods for Contextualizing Entrepreneurship Research. In A Research Agenda for Entrepreneurship and Context. Edward Elgar Publishing, Incorporated.

Wadhwani, R.D. and Decker, S. 2017. “Clio’s Toolkit: The Practice of Historical Methods in Organization Studies,” (with Stephanie Decker) In Sanjay Jain and Raza Mir (eds.) Routledge Companion to Qualitative Research in Organization Studies New York: Taylor and Francis, pp. 113-127.

JoAnne Yates, “Understanding Historical Methods in Organization Studies,” in Marcelo Bucheli and R. Daniel Wadhwani, eds., Organizations in Time: History, Theory, Methods (Oxford: Oxford University Press: 2013), pp. 265-283.

JoAnne Yates, “Time, History, and Materiality,” in Materiality and Time: Historical Perspectives on Organizations, Artefacts and Practices, ed. Francois-Xavier de Vaujany, Nathalie Mitev, Pierre Laniray, Emmanuelle Vaast (London: Palgrave McMillan: 2014), pp. 17-33.

 

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I am professor at University of Southern California and Copenhagen Business School. A historian by training, I use historical sources, methods, and reasoning to examine the foundations of entrepreneurial action and the origins and evolution of organizations and markets.

3 thoughts on “Historical Methods in Management and Organizational Research: A Bibliography”

  1. Thanks, Dan. May I suggest my chapter, ” Quantification and Cognitive History: Applying Social Science Theory and Method to Historical Data,” in Gasman, M., The History of U.S. Higher Education: Methods for Understanding the Past. Routledge, 2010. Using examples drawn from research on policy, governance, and management in universities, It examines the contributions and limitations of traditional empirical methods in institutional and policy history, and discusses and provides examples of examination of reasoning for understanding the history of organizational/institutional change. Jane Robbins

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  2. At the (inevitable) risk of of blowing my own trumpet, I think several of my publications are relevant:

    Ericson, Mona, Leif Melin and Andrew Popp, ‘Studying Strategizing through Historical Methods.’ In Rouleau, Linda, Eero Vaara, and Damon Golsorkhi (eds.) Cambridge Handbook of Strategy as Practice (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2014).

    Fellman, Susanna and Andrew Popp, ‘The Business Historian in Distress: Lost in the Archive.’ In Czarniawska, Barbara and Orvar Löfgren, Coping with Excess: How Organizations, Communities and Individuals Manage Overflows (Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, 2013)

    Fellman, Susanna and Andrew Popp, ‘Creating Narratives: Writing Business History.’ Business History, published online November 2016

    Popp, Andrew (2013), ‘Making Choices in Time.’ Enterprise and Society, Vol. 14, No.3: pp. 467–474, which is part of a wider symposium, all of which is of great relevance.

    Popp, Andrew (2009), ‘History, A Useful “Science” for Management: A Response.’ Enterprise and Society, Vol. 10, No. 4, pp. 831-836, which is again part of a symposium of general relevance.

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