Handbook of Historical Methods for Management

Edited by Stephanie Decker, Professor of Strategy, University of Birmingham Business School, UK, and Professor of African Business History, University of Gothenburg, Sweden, William M. Foster, Professor of Management, University of Alberta, Canada and Elena Giovannoni, University of Birmingham Business School, UK and University of Siena, Italy

‘This Handbook is a great addition to the wealth of studies showing the importance of historical approaches to management and organization studies. The editors and authors of this volume make it clear that studying organizations means history. They mark a turning point in understanding how organization and historical studies are interlocked. The volume offers a few keys to open a beautiful Pandora’s box.’

• Contents:1 Introduction: why historical methods in management? 1Stephanie Decker, William M. Foster and Elena GiovannoniPART I PERSPECTIVES ON HISTORICAL METHODS:THEORETICAL DISCUSSIONS ABOUT HISTORICALMETHODS FROM DIFFERENT PERSPECTIVES2 Historical organization studies 17Charles Harvey and Mairi Maclean3 Rhetorical history: giving meaning to the past in past and present 34Christina Lubinski4 ANTi-History: let’s get critical … critical, I want to get critical! 45Gabrielle Durepos5 A narrative of the historic turn in organization studies 63Michael Rowlinson, Stephanie Decker and John Hassard6 Researching with records in management and organisation studies:archives, data corpus, and reflexivity 79Amon Barros7 On terms: a key to methodological issues in the construction of history 93Albert J. Mills and Jean Helms MillsPART II HISTORICAL DATA AND SOURCES: ONTOLOGICAL,EPISTEMOLOGICAL AND PRACTICAL WAYS OFCONDUCTING HISTORICAL RESEARCH8 How to research in an archive 103Kevin D. Tennent and Alex G. Gillett9 Perspectives on oral history for historical research 120Valeria Giacomin10 Using accounting records as historical data sources 139Christopher J. Napier11 Archival research in the digital era 155Adam Nix, Stephanie Decker, David A. Kirsch and Santhilata Kuppili Venkata12 Multisensory approaches to researching the past: insights from historyand archaeology 172Hannah Platts13 Process-tracing historical research methods in management 187Andrew Smith14 Historical case studies: richness, rigour and ‘contextualised explanation’ 199Emily BuchneaPART III HISTORICAL PRACTICES OF ANALYSING DATA AND SOURCES15 Critical hermeneutics: deriving meaning from historical sources 216R. Daniel Wadhwani16 Critical realism in historical research 230Alistair Mutch17 Prosopography and microhistory: illuminating historical actors 243Garry D. Carnegie and Karen M. McBride18 Insightful empirical knowledge in grounded theory and historicalorganization studies 262Trevor Israelsen and J. Robert Mitchell19 Foucauldian approaches to researching management histories critically 279Stephen Cummings and Todd BridgmanPART IV HISTORICAL RESEARCH FOR ORGANIZATION ANDSOCIETY: EMPIRICAL EXAMPLES OF HISTORICALMETHODS TO INVESTIGATE SPECIFIC THEORETICALCONSTRUCTS20 A call for postnational historiography: notes on writing “history from above” 301Arun Kumar21 Researching past occurrences: discovering the past throughconversational inquiry 312François Bastien and Diego M. Coraiola22 The City of London: genealogy of a contemporary heterotopia 326Nelarine Cornelius and Eric Pezet23 Exploring organisational identity through historical research methods 342Elena Giovannoni and Pasquale Ruggiero24 The past as corporate social responsibility 359Robert Phillips, Judith Schrempf-Stirling and Christian Stutz25 Embodied microhistories on the move: materializing microhistoriesthrough walking to include the affective memories of everyday life 371Jeanne Mengis, Fabio James Petani and Claudia Scholz26 Narrating rhetorical history to present an appearance of organizationalauthenticity 393Kai Lamertz27 The interview and researching collective memory 409Jukka Rintamäki, Sébastien Mena, William M Foster and Mike Zundel28 Taming the ‘mythical beast’: revisiting the myths of historical researchin international business scholarship 422Emmanuella Plakoyiannaki, Eriikka Paavilainen-Mäntymäki and BareerahHafeez HooraniIndex