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History in Management and Organization Studies: From Margin to Mainstream book cover

1st Edition

History in Management and Organization Studies From Margin to Mainstream

By Behlül Üsdiken, Matthias Kipping Copyright 2021
326 Pages 2 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

326 Pages 2 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

326 Pages 2 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge
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There has, in recent times, been an increasing interest in history, broadly defined, among management scholars. But what specifically a historical approach or perspective can contribute to research on organizational fields, organizations, strategy etc. and how exactly such historical research should be carried out remain questions that have been answered only partially, if at all. Building on... Read more

1. The Objective: Finding History in Management Research. PART I. 2. Origins: History and Management Becoming "Sciences". 3. Bringing History and Management Studies (Back) Together. 4. Looking at the Evidence: History in Top Management Journals. PART II. 5. Histories of Management: Early Writings. 6. Management History: Establishing and Defending Orthodoxy. 7. Emergence and expansion of critical views. PART III 8. History to Theory: Studies of Organizations and Organizational Fields. 9. History to Theory: Organizational Ecology, Economics and Resource Dependence. 10. History in Theory: Imprinting and Path Dependence. 11. History in Theory: Ecology, Strategy and Co-evolution. 12. Not a Conclusion: The Ways Forward.

Biography

Behlül Üsdiken is Emeritus Professor of Management & Organization at Sabancı University and Adjunct Professor in the Faculty of Business at Özyeğin University, both in Istanbul, Turkey.

Matthias Kipping is Professor of Policy and Richard E. Waugh Chair in Business History in the Schulich School of Business at York University in Toronto, Canada.

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