Historical Organization Studies by Mairi Maclean, Stewart R. ... - 9780367471217

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Historical Organization StudiesTheory and Applications\nAuthor(s): Mairi Maclean, Stewart R. Clegg, Roy Suddaby, Charles Harvey\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9780367471217, 978-0367471217\nSynopsis\nWe 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 book serves both as a landmark in the development of the field and as a key reference tool for researchers and students.\n\nFor two decades, organization theorists have emphasized the need for more and better research recognizing the importance of the past in shaping the present and future. By historicizing organizational research, the contexts and forces bearing upon organizations will be more fully recognized, and analyses of organizational dynamics improved. But how, precisely, might a traditionally empirically oriented discipline such a.