Methodological Openness in Business History Research: Looking Afresh at the British Interwar Management Movement
dc.contributor.author | Maclean, M | |
dc.contributor.author | Shaw, G | |
dc.contributor.author | Harvey, C | |
dc.contributor.author | Stringer, G | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2023-04-04T12:39:33Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2023-02-08 | |
dc.date.updated | 2023-04-04T11:43:25Z | |
dc.description.abstract | Much thought has been accorded to the evolving nature of business history. It is only relatively recently, however, that attempts have been made to articulate methodological issues in a more epistemologically explicit and reflexive fashion. This article contributes to this burgeoning agenda by examining the methodology underpinning an intensive archival study of the British interwar management movement (1918-1939), a major force in British management education between the wars. We explicate the methodology employed and question what this material tells us about the interwar management movement, in terms of its determination to modernize management, encourage openness between firms, and extend a new spirit of partnership. We show that the interwar management movement was characterized by organized cooperation and methodological openness. Our main contribution is to demonstrate that interpretations themselves can become entrenched and prone to inertia, inviting us to revisit these periodically and, if appropriate, recast them. | en_GB |
dc.description.sponsorship | Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) | en_GB |
dc.format.extent | 805-832 | |
dc.identifier.citation | Vol. 96(4), pp. 805-832 | en_GB |
dc.identifier.doi | https://doi.org/10.1017/s0007680522000721 | |
dc.identifier.grantnumber | ES/N009797/1 | en_GB |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10871/132839 | |
dc.identifier | ORCID: 0000-0002-7135-2105 (Shaw, Gareth) | |
dc.identifier | ScopusID: 7401773749 (Shaw, Gareth) | |
dc.language.iso | en | en_GB |
dc.publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) | en_GB |
dc.rights | © 2023 The President and Fellows of Harvard College. This is an Open Access article, distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution licence (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. | en_GB |
dc.subject | British interwar management movement | en_GB |
dc.subject | business history | en_GB |
dc.subject | digital archives | en_GB |
dc.subject | methodology | en_GB |
dc.subject | Rowntree business lectures | en_GB |
dc.title | Methodological Openness in Business History Research: Looking Afresh at the British Interwar Management Movement | en_GB |
dc.type | Article | en_GB |
dc.date.available | 2023-04-04T12:39:33Z | |
dc.identifier.issn | 0007-6805 | |
dc.description | This is the final version. Available on open access from Cambridge University Press via the DOI in this record | en_GB |
dc.identifier.eissn | 2044-768X | |
dc.identifier.journal | Business History Review | en_GB |
dc.relation.ispartof | The Business History Review, 96(4) | |
dc.rights.uri | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ | en_GB |
rioxxterms.version | VoR | en_GB |
rioxxterms.licenseref.startdate | 2023-02-08 | |
rioxxterms.type | Journal Article/Review | en_GB |
refterms.dateFCD | 2023-04-04T12:35:44Z | |
refterms.versionFCD | VoR | |
refterms.dateFOA | 2023-04-04T12:39:34Z | |
refterms.panel | C | en_GB |
refterms.dateFirstOnline | 2023-02-08 |
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