Rethinking history and memory in organization studies: The case for historiographical reflexivity
dc.contributor.author | Decker, S | |
dc.contributor.author | Hassard, J | |
dc.contributor.author | Rowlinson, M | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2020-12-18T08:32:35Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2020-06-03 | |
dc.description.abstract | The historic turn in organization studies has led to greater appreciation of the potential contribution from historical research. However, there is increasing emphasis on integrating history into organization studies, rather than on recognizing how accommodating history might require a reorientation. As a result, key conceptual and methodological insights from historiography have been overlooked or at times misrepresented. We identify four modes of enquiry that highlight distinctions from history about ‘how to conceptualize’ and ‘how to research’ the past. First, historical organization studies research the past primarily through reference to archival sources. Second, retrospective organizational history reconstructs the past principally from retrospective accounts, such as those generated in oral history. Third, retrospective organizational memory uses ethnography and interviews to explore the role of memory in the present. Fourth, historical organizational memory traces the institutionalization of organizational memory through archival research. From the analysis, we argue that historical organization studies are increasingly established, and interest in ‘uses of the past’ has contributed to the rise of retrospective organizational memory. However, historiographical reflexivity – a new concept for organization studies – focuses attention on engaging with both history and collective memory, and on the distinct methodological choices between archival and retrospective methods. | en_GB |
dc.identifier.citation | Published online 3 June 2020 | en_GB |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.1177/0018726720927443 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10871/124209 | |
dc.language.iso | en | en_GB |
dc.publisher | SAGE Publications | en_GB |
dc.rights | © The Author(s) 2020. Open access. This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) which permits non-commercial use, reproduction and distribution of the work without further permission provided the original work is attributed as specified on the SAGE and Open Access pages (https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/open-access-at-sage). | en_GB |
dc.subject | Historic turn | en_GB |
dc.subject | organizational history | en_GB |
dc.subject | organizational memory | en_GB |
dc.subject | retrospective methods | en_GB |
dc.subject | rhetorical history | en_GB |
dc.title | Rethinking history and memory in organization studies: The case for historiographical reflexivity | en_GB |
dc.type | Article | en_GB |
dc.date.available | 2020-12-18T08:32:35Z | |
dc.identifier.issn | 0018-7267 | |
dc.description | This is the final version. Available on open access from SAGE Publications via the DOI in this record | en_GB |
dc.identifier.journal | Human Relations | en_GB |
dc.rights.uri | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ | en_GB |
rioxxterms.version | VoR | en_GB |
rioxxterms.licenseref.startdate | 2020-06-03 | |
rioxxterms.type | Journal Article/Review | en_GB |
refterms.dateFCD | 2020-12-18T08:30:39Z | |
refterms.versionFCD | VoR | |
refterms.dateFOA | 2020-12-18T08:32:38Z | |
refterms.panel | C | en_GB |
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