ABSTRACT
Historical organization studies is ‘organizational research that draws extensively on historical sources, methods and knowledge to promote historically informed theoretical narratives attentive to both disciplines’. By historicizing organizational research, it is argued, the contexts and forces bearing upon organizations might be more fully recognized and analyses of organizational dynamics might be improved. This introduction presents an overview of the key concepts discussed in the subsequent chapters of this book. The book takes stock by evaluating the current state of play, explores recent scholarly exemplars on theorized history, while looking at the possibilities offered for future research. It is concerned the seemingly mundane practices performed in the rural parishes of the Churches of Scotland and England, which in turn shed light on differing ecclesiastical routines performed in the two churches. The book explores the notion of historical consciousness in the production of critical historical studies, focusing on the relationship between the researcher, the practice of doing history and historical methods.
