ABSTRACT
A series of diagrams, based on those by R. Daniel Wadhwani, to show how the historical method differs from other social scientific scholarship. One of the author's own designs is a triangle diagram of history, archeology, and journalism. On the x-axis is the historical time under study from ancient on the left, to modern on the right. The social sciences are self-constrained, use models, and aim for replication—but history is open to exploring more broadly. History is, in fact, a supra-discipline, and people can envision it as a comprehensive study of everything empirical and theoretical. In explaining the historical method to colleagues in the field of organizational management, R. Daniel Wadhwani uses an ingenious set of images designed to contrast the historical method with the longitudinal and cross-sectional analysis types common to business school scholarship.
