ESRC seminar – Page 2 – Organizational History Network

“The narrative construction of memory”

Our next event in the ESRC seminar series will be hosted jointly with Copenhagen Business School on 10 December, 2015, from 9:00-17:00.

The seminar bring together scholars from history, organization studies and management, with interest in narrative construction of history and memory and organizations.

Speakers:

Tor Hernes (Copenhagen Business School): ‘Temporal trajectory and organizational narrative’
Sjoerd Keulen (Independent Scholar) & Ronald Kroeze (Free University of Amsterdam): ‘The use of history and the creation of narratives by Dutch companies’
Per Hansen (Copenhagen Business School): ‘Narratives as the basis of memory and history”
Dan Wadhwani (University of the Pacific): ‘Projecting Plausible Futures: Uses of historical narratives in the Entrepreneurial Process’
Roy Suddaby (University of Victoria & Newcastle University Business School): ‘Rhetorical history and narrative history’
Robin Holt (Copenhagen Business School): ‘Memory and Mnemosyne’

To sign up, please go to: http://goo.gl/forms/oBsZXfj1UG

For more information see the flyer: Biz_His Narrative Memory

Please note that CBS will host a PDW on 9 December in conjunction with the ESRC event as part of their Business History Initiative.

As an interdisciplinary field of study, there are a range of different groups interested in organizational history or historical research on organizations, but from different angles. It is not always clear which of these would be of interest to scholars.

There are some ongoing iniatives, such as the ESRC seminar series in Organizational History (2015-2016) in the UK, run by Stephanie Decker, Mick Rowlinson & John Hassard, or the CBS Initiative in Business History, based in the Centre for Business History (Denmark).

This year’s AOM in Vancouver (2015) features a significant number of well-attended sessions on management & organizational history, which highlights an increased interest in historical approaches in management and organization studies. In fact several professional organizations in management and organization studies have regular tracks on organizational history, such as:

The European Group for Organization Studies, Standing Working Group 8 on Historical Perspectives in Organization Studies (2011-2016), contact Dan Wadhwani, Stephanie Decker or Matthias Kipping.
Management History division at Academy of Management
British Academy of Management, regular track on history run by Kevin Tennent
The Management History Research Group hosts annual conferences in the UK.

There are several professional associations in business history, which also include some work on organizational history, such as

The Association of Business Historians (UK)
The Business History Conference (USA)
The European Business History Association (European)
Arbeitskreis fuer kritische Unternehmensgeschichte (Germany)

A fascinating EU-funded project in organizational history is the Enterprise of Culture .

The International Network for the Theory of History offers a broader perspective on generic issues for organizational history.

But this is hardly an exhaustive list, so we would be very interested in hearing about any additional initiatives or groups that we should include here.