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CfP: EURAM “Historical Research in Management Studies”

Steph

SIG 12 – RM&RP – Research Methods and Research Practice 

We invite you to submit your research to explore the theme of 

FOSTERING INNOVATION TO ADDRESS GRAND CHALLENGES 

for the EURAM 24th Conference. 

We look forward to receiving your submissions. 

T12_04 – Historical Research in Management Studies 

Proponents: 

Matteo Cristofaro, University of Rome Tor Vergata; Kevin Tennent, University of York; Massimo Sargiacomo, University of Pescara; Michael Weatherburn, Imperial College London; James Fowler, University of Essex; Adoración Álvaro-Moya, CUNEF (Colegio Universitario de Estudios Financieros); David Boughey, University of Exeter Business School; Sébastien Damart, Paris Dauphine-PSL University 

Short description: 

The track “Historical Research in Management Studies” addresses the historical development of management and related areas (e.g., entrepreneurship, international business, marketing, retailing, strategy, accounting, auditing, management tools, etc.), concepts, theories, and practices as well as the application and evolution of historical research methods. We aim to encourage theoretically orientated social science history, and its methods, with a clear relationship to present-day debates and practices in the management discipline; from that, the types of contributions that are looked for fall into the following two categories. First, historical analyses of management concepts, theories, and practices. Second, contributions regarding revisitation or new directions in management historical research. 

Long description: 

The track “Historical Research in Management Studies” addresses the historical development of management and related areas (e.g., entrepreneurship, international business, marketing, retailing, strategy, accounting, auditing, management tools, etc.) concepts, theories, and practices as well as the application and evolution of historical research methods. The types of contributions that are looked for fall into two categories. 

First, works that make historical assessments of the social consequences of management, reexaminations of established historical concepts, the historical development of management of present-day companies, and topics that draw on historical data/firmly rooted in a historical perspective. In fact, the historical analysis of management concepts and theories helps to EURAM 2024 

AUTHORS GUIDELINES https://conferences.euram.academy/2024conference/authors-guidelines-for-full-papers/ 

understand how scholars accepted or rejected them. According to a practical point of view, historical research constitutes the starting point for analyzing and interpreting the mechanisms that interact with the life of companies. The observation, analysis, and comparison of past experiences can constitute the “lifeblood” for the development of new and more advanced management and governance models, to guide companies beyond the current uncertain times. For example, the historical study of the crisis and their external shocks – e.g., wars, plagues, natural disasters, and social problems – is a stream of investigation that is still largely to be explored and that can develop insights into why some external factors are influential according to the peculiarities of the territory in which they develop. Some other, but not exclusively, interesting management topics to be historically studied may be the management of education institutions, the realization of artistic pieces and their activities, sporting organisations, accounting tools and financial statements – these latter are considered as expressions of the intuitions and ideas of the organizational members and related actions. 

Being based on archival evidence, historical methods feature named organisations within their contexts, making it easier for scholars and learners to relate to and emphasise with them. Second, this track invites contributions able to discuss the ways of using historical materials, new directions in management historical research and oral history, and the importance of a historical perspective in management. Historic-based business studies have the advantage of being teachable and we believe that the historical methods – thanks to their unique understandings of historical context, chronology, continuity, and change – create a sort of narrative that aids the sensemaking of management concepts, theories, and practices. Case studies, longitudinal analysis, micro-history approach, ANTI-history approach, history as rhetoric, and genealogical pragmatic analysis constitute only examples of the welcomed submissions. 

Keywords: 

  • Management history 
  • Business history 
  • Accounting history 
  • Historical Methods 

UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDG): 

Goal 4: Quality education,Goal 8: Decent work and economic growth,Goal 9: Industry, Innovation, and Infrastructure,Goal 11: Sustainable cities and communities,Goal 16: Peace, justice and strong institutions,Goal 17: Partnerships for the goals 

Publication Outlet: 

  • Fast-track process for the Journal of Management History at the end of each EURAM Conference 
  • Edited Book will be launched for each edition of the EURAM Conference. The publisher can be Information Age Publishing. A book series in Management History is present and the past editors are passing to Matteo Cristofaro Editorial duties. https://www.info 

For more information contact: 

Matteo Cristofaro, University of Rome Tor Vergata – matteo.cristofaro@uniroma2.it 

20th World Economic History Congress

Steph

Call for sessions

The 20th World Economic History Congress will convene from 28 July–1 August 2025 in Lund, Sweden. The theme for the Congress is Equality and Sustainability Challenges, which highlights some of the central issues facing humanity today and also connects to a broad and diverse range of historical problems. To address both the challenges and to find insights from the historical record for that endeavour, a range of perspectives will be necessary.

The IEHA has a particularly strong desire to attract sessions related to this theme. However, submissions are welcome on the economic and social histories of all places and periods, and on the exploration of varied sources and methods, and on the theory and uses of economic history itself. We also invite members to employ and analyse diverse strategies for representing the past.

Sessions may be proposed by any member of the international economic history community, whatever their institutional affiliation or status, as well as by scholars in related disciplines. Given the diversity of our membership, we will consider any submission that advances the study, teaching and public presentation of economic history. We welcome panel proposals that highlight scholarship emerging from economic history, business history, financial history, demographic history, environmental history, global and world history, social history, urban and agrarian history, gender studies, material culture, methodological approaches to historical research, history of economics and economic thought, science and technology studies, and other related fields.

The programme of the Lund Congress will be organised on the same principles as previous Congresses. The 5-day Congress will have approximately 180 sessions, with each day divided into time blocks of 90 minutes each (two before lunch and two after lunch). As in the past, it will be possible to combine two sessions into larger coherent units.

The session proposals should contain:

  • Name, title, affiliation, and contact information of the session organiser
  • Possible co-organisers (optional)
  • Title of the session
  • Description of the session’s aim, contribution, and relevance (max 5,000 characters with blanks)
  • Researchers invited to participate in the session, or those already confirmed, and their affiliations

The call for sessions will close on January 31, 2024. Sessions should be submitted via the portal at at this link. Please note that unlike in past years, there will be ONLY ONE call for sessions. Decisions will be finalised in June 2024.

Accounting History International Conference

Steph

The 12th Accounting History International Conference will be held September 4-6 2024 in Siena, Italy. The conference theme is “Accounting for arts, culture and heritage in historical perspectives”. Papers on this topic are encouraged, but any accounting history paper will be considered for presentation at the 12AHIC. Paper submission is by 31 March 2024.

The website for the conference is now live –  http://www.congressi.unisi.it/12ahic/

Business History Conference Events & Dates

Steph

Organized by BHC President Sharon Murphy, the 2024 conference is on the theme of “Doing Business in the Public Interest” and will be held in Providence, Rhode Island, on March 14th – March 16th.  The call for papers, which was shared earlier this year, can be found here on the BHC website: https://thebhc.org/index.php/call-papers-bhc-2024

The deadline for receipt of all paper and session proposals for Providence is November 1, 2023.  

In 2023 the BHC members elected four new trustees, and a new member of the nominating committee.  Grace Ballor, Victoria Barnes, Chinmay Tumbe, and Paula Vedoveli will serve three-year terms as trustees through the 2026 meeting. Christy Chapin was elected to the nominating committee for a two-year term, 2023 to 2025. Members also picked Stephen Mihm as our president-elect. Leaving our board of trustees after three years of noteworthy service (and with many thanks) were Jennifer Black, Paula de la Cruz-Fernández, Eric Godelier, and Julia Yongue.  Shennette Garrett-Scott also completed her two-year term on the nominating committee.  Dan Wadhwani serves as past president, whilst Andrea Lluch became past president-on-board, having finished her term as past president, president, and president-elect.  Our deep appreciation to all these officers and committee members who continue to volunteer their valuable time serving our scholarly organization.

To continue this cycle of leadership, elections will take place beginning in January 2024. To that end, the BHC Nominating Committee invites your nominations for BHC president-elect, trustees, and member of the nominating committee.  If you are new to the organization and would like to know more about these roles and the structure of the BHC, I encourage you to look at https://thebhc.org/officers-current. Please send all nominations for these positions to committee chair, Dan Wadhwani, at dwadhwani@marshall.usc.edu by Wednesday, November 1, 2023.

Similarly, the BHC Grants and Prizes Committee invites nominations for the BHC Lifetime Achievement Award; the recipient will be announced at the Providence, R.I. meeting’s awards banquet. The criteria for this prestigious award are outlined here: https://thebhc.org/lifetime  Please email the committee chair, Pamela Laird, pamela.laird@ucdenver.edu  with any nominations by Monday, December 4, 2023.

I hope to see many of you at the 2023 mid-year virtual meeting held via Zoom on September 29th.  More information about this meeting, titled “Doing Business History as Public History,” can be found at https://thebhc.org/index.php/2023-mid-year-meeting. 

And finally, The Exchange, the BHC’s weblog, will now be sent as a monthly newsletter. You should have received the first issue on September 1st (please check your Spam folder in case the notification went there). To post announcements in The Exchange, please contact Paula de la Cruz-Fernández (web-editor@thebhc.org). You may use this link to subscribe. 

Management & Business History at British Academy of Management

Steph

If you are a member of the MBH SIG at BAM, or if you are thinking of becoming one, please remember that elections are coming up. The below if

The following roles are open for election for this SIG, and we are now calling for candidates in the SIG leadership (Chair, Treasurer, Secretary). Only BAM and SIG members can either self-nominate or nominate another academic (with their prior agreement, of course) for election to one or more of these roles. The SIG and BAM are open to new members (https://www.bam.ac.uk/membership/create-an-account.html), and under the current leadership the SIG has gone from strength to strength. Elected candidates will serve for a 3-year term of office, and nominations need to be submitted before 28th September (Smart Survey Link HERE ).

You may contact the SIG Chair by email for an informal discussion of what the role entails.

The Elections will be held online in October – don’t forget to vote!

AOM PDW Craft & Organizations

Steph

The ultimate goal for this PDW is to introduce the audience to the topic of craft and organizations in a way that emphasizes both its theoretical and practical significance and provide participants with an opportunity to discuss pre-submitted extended abstracts with editorial board members of diverse management journals.

This PDW will be divided into halves. In the first half, open to everyone, guest speakers will introduce the topic of craft and organizations. In the second half, participants who submit abstracts will be grouped at tables with editorial board members of diverse management journals that have affinity with craft-related research. Each participant will have an opportunity to introduce their abstract with the rest of the table and receive developmental feedback from an editorial board member.

We want to create a friendly and developmental environment for everyone interested on this line of research. We invite interested participants that are currently engaged or interested in engaging in craft and organizations research to submit extended abstracts (Max 900 words) for research on craft and organizations, both broadly defined.

Please use the following link to submit your abstract by July 14th. 

Organizers:

Jose A. Cerecedo Lopez, UT San Antonio

Jochem Kroezen, Erasmus University

Speakers:

Innan Sasaki, University of Warwick 

Michael G. Pratt, Boston College 

Editorital Board Members:

Tobias Pret, Illinois State University

Silviya Svejenova Velikova, Copenhagen Business School

Jo-Ellen Pozner, Santa Clara University

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Jose A. Cerecedo Lopez
The University of Texas at San Antonio
jose.cerecedolopez@utsa.edu
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AOM 2023 PDW: Developing Theory from Historical Research

Steph

CALL FOR APPLICATIONS: AOM 2023 PDW 

Developing Theory from Historical Research 

Session # 17948 | Sponsors: MH, OMT, RM, TIM, STR 

Aug 5, 2023 from 3:15PM to 05:15PM ET 

Submission Deadline: July 17, 2023 

Who is this PDW for? 

If you are: 

  1. a.) engaged in (or interested in) conducting research with historical data, and 
  2. b.) doing inductive (i.e. theory-building rather than hypothesis-testing) work, and 
  3. c.) hoping to publish your work in top management journals 

then this is the PDW for you! 

Overview 

This PDW brings together a distinguished panel of scholars to stimulate an interactive and developmental exchange on conducting inductive research using historical data. Our core focus will be on the theory-building / theoretical contribution part of the research process – how do we understand the past to inform the present? How do we move from the setting being studied to higher-level conceptualizations, while maintaining a balance between generalization and contextualization? 

Importantly, our aim will be to focus on these questions from a practical standpoint, taking away useful advice that scholars can adopt in their research practices. And for those of you who have the opportunity to discuss ongoing projects with the panelists, you will also get advice tailored to your specific projects. 

Panelists 

  • Andrew Nelson, University of Oregon, Lundquist College of Business 
  • Roy Suddaby, University of Victoria, Gustavson School of Business and Washington State University, Carson College of Business 
  • Dan Wadhwani, USC, Marshall School of Business 
  • JoAnne Yates, MIT, Sloan School of Management 

Organizers: Rohin Borpujari, London Business School & Chelsea Lei, Boston College 

Structure 

1. Panel Talk and Group Q&A: For the first part of the PDW, our panelists will lead exchanges around topics such as which research questions are best suited to historical case studies; how to balance the needs for contextualization vs. generalization in theorizing; how to write up a historical case study for publication in management journals, etc. 

2. Roundtables and Individual Feedback: Pre-selected participants will have the opportunity to engage in quick, entrepreneur-style “pitches” to the experts (separated into 4 different roundtables), with a view to receiving developmental feedback specific to their projects. 

Each participant will have 20 minutes in total – 10 minutes to describe their project (or project idea) and what areas they would like feedback on, and 10 minutes to receive feedback / engage in discussion with the expert. 

How to Apply 

Part 1 is open to all attendees and does not require any application in advance. 

For Part 2, in order to ensure quality interactions with panelists, we are limiting the number of “pitches” to 16 (i.e. 4 per panelist). If you are interested in receiving feedback on a project that you are currently working on, please submit your interest to the organizers at rborpujari@london.edu, by 11:59 pm Eastern Time (Boston time) on July 17, 2023. 

Specifically, please submit an abstract or overview of your project, including two questions that you would like to ask the panelists to receive feedback about that project. Please keep this document limited to 1 page, single-spaced, in PDF format. 

In addition, in your email, please rank order your preference for which panelist roundtable you would like to be a part of (with the number “1” referring to your first choice panelist and “4” referring to your fourth choice panelist). 

Note: In addition to the 1-page abstract, you may, if you wish, submit a theoretical model or diagram that you are working on in case your project is at a more advanced stage and you would like comments on the model you are building. 

If you have any questions about the PDW or the application process, please feel free to reach out at either rborpujari@london.edu or leicd@bc.edu. 

Annual Meeting Scholarships for Management History Early Career Scholars

Steph

We invite early career scholars to apply for annual meeting registration scholarships. 

The following criteria must be met for eligibility:

  • A current member of AOM and the Management History Division.
  • A paper accepted for presentation, or a panelist on a PDW or symposium, in the Management History Division at this year’s annual meeting.
  • Have graduated from a doctoral program within the past five years.

Additional criteria on which decisions will be made include:

  • Geographic distance from Boston
  • Additional funding available from your university or research grants

Please apply via email to Trish McLaren, MH Division Chair (pmclaren@wlu.ca) by Monday, June 26th, 2023. In your application include information/evidence as to the five criteria identified above.

OAP Workshop online sessions

Steph

Interested in joining us online for the 13th OAP workshop on history, historicity and historical process in Management and Organization Studies (MOS)? While there are no more places for in-person attendance for the workshop jointly organized by ESADE, Université Paris Dauphine-PSL and ESSEC on 8th and 9th June in Barcelona, you can join us online for the hybrid events! Register on EventBrite for free: Remote access to OAP 2023 Historicity & OS Tickets| Eventbrite. The fantastic Keynotes by Profs Bill Foster and Paloma Fernandez Perez will be online!

Online sessions:

8 June

3 PM-4.15 PM CET (Hybrid mode)

Keynote lecture 1 by William Foster (University of Alberta) “Organizational Memory Work: The promise of the past”

9 June

11.30-12.30 CET

LIVE STREAMING YOUTUBE – Panel 1 – History in the making: historicizing memory with and for MOS. With Stéphanie Decker (Birmingham University), Laura Lucia Parolin (University of Southern Denmark) and Pierre Labardin (Université de la Rochelle). Animation: Daniel Arenas (ESADE) 

17.00-18.00 CET

STREAMING YOUTUBE – Keynote lecture 3 by Paloma Fernandez Perez (UB)  “Hybrid actors and networks and the history of global scientific and technological businesses.”

Event: Origins & evolution of professional football clubs

Steph

Register now for this in person event on The origins and evolution of professional football clubs from a business, management, and organizational history perspective taking place on the 22nd – 23rd June at Birkbeck, University of London. 

Professional football provides fertile ground for historians interested in exploring continuity and change. It has undergone considerable change and evolution in terms of its identification as an industry – historically football identified as a representative competition between locales, and in many countries profit or even turnover were not considered significant in the purpose of clubs. The entry of broadcasting and the opportunities for related entrepreneurship and licensing in the context of the game have created the opportunity for much of the change that the game has undergone, with a considerable increase the problem of “appropriability” (Buchanan, 1965; Demsetz, 1970; Coase, 1988), in which club owners have struggled to capture the benefits of these innovations, although they have often pushed to exploit them. Many of the benefits have flowed to players, who have seen increased status through the “economics of superstars” (Rosen, 1981) where highly talented played have seen their bargaining powers increase.

 We invite papers looking at club football from a management and business history perspective, especially those drawing on archival or oral history research.  Papers should seek to contribute to a developing stream of research including Dizin et al (2004), Walters and Hamil (2013), Gillett and Tennent (2017) and Fernández-de-Sevilla (2021). Secondly, following Gillett and Tennent (2020) we aim to broaden the realm of business and management history by providing opportunities to look at theoretical and empirical themes related to the professional football industry such as project-based enterprise, hybridity, or the role of not-for-profit organisations in business.

Benefits of attending 
  • Receive critical feedback on and review of in-progress academic work
  • Network with academics and practitioners in the field with the potential to encourage impact collaboration
  • Understand the current state of academic work on management and business in the football industry
Facilitators
  • Professor Geoff Walters, Birkbeck, University of London
  • Sean Hamil, Birkbeck, University of London
  • Dr Kevin Tennent, University of York
  • Dr Alex Gillett, University of York

Venue details:

  • School of Business, Economics and Infomatics
  • Birkbeck College
  • Malet St,
  • London
  • WC1E 7HX
Event Fee 
  • BAM Members: £10
  • BAM Student Members : Free (10 places available)
  • Non -BAM Members : £20
If you are booking multiple paid events as a Non-Member, it may be cheaper for you to purchase a BAM Membership as nearly all BAM Events are free or at a discounted rate for Members.

For more information, please visit BAM Membership

To register please login to your account and proceed with the registration for the event by pressing the “book now” button on the top right side of the workshop page. Please complete the registration by the 23.59 UK time on the 8th June.

Please contact us via e-mail at eventsofficer@bam.ac.uk should you have any queries.