Rhetorical history has emerged as a useful theoretical construct that bridges the long
recognized gap between historical and organizational scholarship. Despite its growing …

Research on the “uses of the past” in organizations and organizing is flourishing. This
introduction reviews this approach to integrating history into organization studies and …

Rhetoric is the art of persuasion through speech or text. However, it should not be reduced
to a mere form of representation because it often includes processes of dividing, ordering …

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 …

In this paper, we review and synthesize the growing sociology-informed literature on
organizational memory studies, which focuses on collective memory as a social construction …

Abstract Information systems (IS) strategizing is particularly challenging for established
organizations because of their historical conditions. The question of how established …

Despite growing interest in time, history, and memory, we lack an understanding of the multi‐
temporal reality of organizations–how past, present, and future intersect to inform …

How do we know what we know about an organization's history? What methodologies do
historians use? I explain and adapt the historical method of source criticism for …

Studies have shown how organisations create and use historical narratives to
'outpast'competing narratives, in attempts to claim authenticity through antiquity. We extend …

Use-of-the-past research has advanced our understanding of how top managers
instrumentalize past knowledge, events and rhetorical constructions to advance their …