The history of organization studies is embedded in its times and the ways those times affect
different regions differently. In particular, significant features of the field were molded by the …

One of the forefathers of sociology and organization theory, Max Weber, was as much a
historian as a sociologist. He was convinced that in order to understand contemporary …

Why does history matter to our understanding of management, organizations, and markets?
What theoretical insights can it offer into organizational processes? How can scholars use …

This article argues that contemporary organization theory owes its existence to social and
technological changes that occurred during the last half of the nineteenth century and the …

We are now entering a new phase in the establishment of historical organization studies as
a distinctive methodological paradigm within the broad field of organization studies. This …

Organizations in the twentieth century have cerned with three broad themes: First, the rise of
become the most powerful force in industrialized organizations-that is, how did we come to …

Since the Second World War, the field of organizations studies has grown substantially in
the number of researchers, number of publications, and amount of research produced. It has …

Long a fruitful area of scrutiny for students of organizations, the study of institutions is
undergoing a renaissance in contemporary social science. This volume offers, for the first …

This chapter examines how the relationship between history and what is now known as
“organization studies” has unfolded over the past 100 years, beginning well before the latter …

There have been various calls in the literature more recently for engaging with history in the
study of organisations and their management. 1 They have been joined by a number of …