Journal of Management History: Volume 25 Issue 4

Nurturing the historic turn: “history as theory” versus “history as method”

Wim Van Lent, Gabrielle Durepos

This paper aims to explore the turn in management and organization studies (MOS) and reflect on “history as theory” versus “history as method”.

Intersectional history: exploring intersectionality over time

Ellen C. Shaffner, Albert J. Mills, Jean Helms Mills

This paper aims to outline the possibilities of intersectional history as a novel method for management history. Intersectional history combines intersectionality and the study of…

Gendering multi-voiced histories of the North American space industry: the GMRD White women

Stefanie Ruel, Albert J. Mills, Jean Helms Mills

The authors focus on “writing women into ‘history’” in this study, embracing the notion of cisgender and ethnicity in relation to the “historic turn”. As such, the authors bring…

In search of transparency: ANTi-History, memorials and resistance

Renata Guimarães Quelha de Sá, Alessandra de Sá Mello da Costa

This paper aims to discuss the constitution of the Memorial of Resistance of São Paulo (MRSP) by adopting the ANTi-History approach, thereby providing greater transparency to the…

Contextual analysis and newspaper archives in management history research

David Bowie

The purpose of this paper is to reveal, how newspaper archives can support contextualisation in management history research by providing quantitative and/or qualitative, accurate…

Corpus linguistics, newspaper archives and historical research methods

Chinmay Tumbe

The purpose of this paper is to demonstrate the utility of corpus linguistics and digitised newspaper archives in management and organisational history.

Finding a turn in Canadian management through archival sources

Jason Russell

The purpose of this paper is to reveal something about a turn that occurred in Canadian management from the 1960s to 1980s through an empirical analysis of three different…

In search of continuity: Theoretical and methodological insights from a case study of a Polish centennial company

Tomasz Olejniczak, Anna Pikos, Toshio Goto

This study aims to represent an early attempt to define the notion of continuity and empirically illustrate its explanatory potential and methodological challenges.

Managing projects in war-torn societies: A case study from Kosovo principles, practices and challenges of “project management” in conflict zones

James Earnest

Planning and implementing reconstruction projects in areas that are affected by conflict has proven to be far more challenging than expected and has often been considered to be…