Historical Organization Studies

Mairi Maclean is Professor of International Business in the School of Management, University of Bath, where she is Associate Dean for Faculty. Stewart R. Clegg is Distinguished Professor of Management and Organization Studies at the University of Technology Sydney. Roy Suddaby is the Winspear Professor of Management at the University of Victoria and a Research Professor at the University of Liverpool Management School. Charles Harvey is Professor of Business History and Management at Newcastle University Business School and Director of the Centre for Research on Entrepreneurship, Wealth and Philanthropy (REWP).

Part I: Introduction 1. Historical Organization Studies: Advancing New Directions for Organizational Research Part II: Conceptual Advances 2. Writing the Practices of History 3. Towards a Theory of Historical Reflexivity 4. The Organization-as-Iceberg as a Counter Metaphor 5. Working Towards Critical Historical Studies: An Emancipatory Ontology 6. Don’t Talk about History: Indigenous Views about the Past and their Implication for Organization Studies Part III: Theoretical Applications 7. The Canadian Alouette Women: Reclaiming their Space 8. The Enduring Presence of the Founder: A Historical and Interdisciplinary Perspective on the Organizational Identity of Collection Museums 9. Institutional Entrepreneurship and the Field of Power: The Emergence of the Global Hotel Industry 10. ‘Remember Mackintosh!’ Historical Homology and Historical Affinity in the Design of the Scottish Parliament Building 11. Institutional Change as Historical Confluence: The Development of the Nursing Profession in Japan 12. Studying the Processes of Managerial Legitimacy and Control of Former State-owned Enterprises in Post-communist Societies: A Longitudinal Study Part IV: Conclusion 13. At the Intersection of Theory and History: A Research Agenda for Historical Organization Studies