ABSTRACT

The field of management and organizational history has reached a level of maturity that means an overview is long overdue.

Written by a team of globally renowned scholars, this comprehensive companion analyses management and organizational history, reflecting on the most influential periods and highlighting gaps for future research. From the impact of the Cold War to Global Warming, it examines the field from a wide array of perspectives from humanities to the social sciences.

Covering the entire spectrum of the field, this volume provides an essential resource for researchers of business and management.

part |10 pages

The historic turn in management and organization studies: critical responses

chapter |8 pages

Introduction

The historic turn in management and organizational studies: a companion reading

chapter |2 pages

Twenty years after

Why organization theory needs historical analyses

part |15 pages

Debates in management and organizational history

chapter |16 pages

A history of management histories

Does the story of our past and the way we tell it matter?

chapter |15 pages

History in management textbooks

Adding, transforming, or more?

part |16 pages

Methods: doing management and organizational history

chapter |14 pages

Managing the past

chapter |28 pages

ANTi-History

Toward amodern histories

chapter |16 pages

Avec frontières

The discourse of humanitarianism

chapter |9 pages

The future of history

Posthumanist entrepreneurial storytelling, global warming, and global capitalism

chapter |16 pages

Mothership reconnection

Microhistory and institutional work compared

part |14 pages

Rewriting management and organizational history

chapter |12 pages

History of management thought in context

The case of Elton Mayo in Australia

chapter |15 pages

A critical historiography of public relations in Canada

Rethinking an ahistorical symmetry

part |15 pages

Management and organizational history at the margins

chapter |3 pages

Is there any future for critical management studies in Latin America?

Moving from epistemic coloniality to ‘trans-discipline'

part |11 pages

Commentaries on the future of management and organizational history: does it have a past?

chapter |9 pages

Processing history

Bringing process-oriented research to management and organizational history

chapter |8 pages

Turning how and where?

The potential for history in management and organizational studies

part |17 pages

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