Historicity in Organization Studies

François-Xavier de Vaujany is Professor of Organization Studies at Université Paris Dauphine-PSL (DRM), France. His research focuses on the societal and political dimensions of work organization and its management from the 1930s to the present, in particular in the US and the French contexts. Kätlin Pulk is an Associate Professor of Organization Theory at Estonian Business School, Estonia. Her research focuses on time and temporality in organizations and in organizing, organizational change, outsourcing, backsourcing, innovation, commitment, continuity and an event-based view of time. Pierre Labardin is a Professor at La Rochelle University, France. He specializes in accounting and management control history. He is a founding member and, from 2021 to 2023, President of AHMO, the French Business History Association.

• Chapter 1: Introduction Historicity in Organization Studies Describing events and actuality at the borders of our present.- Chapter 2: Eventalizing the Kaali Meteorite SocioOrganizational Reality as Dynamic Configuration of Events.- Chapter 3: Towards Negative Ontologies of Time The Inclusion of Non-events in Organizational Historiography.- Chapter 4: A Foucauldian Perspective on Ethics and Subjectivation in the Making of History.- Chapter 5: Time Space and the Becoming of Chance in Platform Capitalism.- Chapter 6: History of a digital institution in the making Observing more than 14 years of eCODEX the European eJustice system.- Chapter 7: A Critical Genealogy of Time Control Devices in France.- Chapter 8: Building the Myth of the Entrepreneur The Case of Steve Jobs.- Chapter 9: Changing Narrative Through Theatre The Case of Bergamo ER Theatre Covid Play.- Chapter 10: Commemoration as Discourses of Dark Industrial Pasts Saunters through Popular Company and Factory Museums.- Chapter 11: Spreading global leadership and democracy Harvard Business School at the Edge of Time 1908 to 2024.- Chapter 12: Historiography and Historical Organization Studies Synthesizing the Historic Turns Legacy.- Chapter 13: Between Ordinary and Extraordinary Events Reconceptualizing Historical Events and Historicity in OS.