Journal of Management History: Volume 27 Issue 1

Guest editorial

Jean Helms Mills, Albert J. Mills

The historic (wrong) turn in management and organizational studies

Bradley Bowden

Management history has in the past 15 years witnessed growing enthusiasm for “critical” research methodologies associated with the so-called “historic turn”. This paper aims to…

It’s about time: theorizing amodern time in historical organization studies

Gabrielle Durepos, Terrance Weatherbee, Albert J. Mills

This paper features a critique of the treatment of time in modern and postmodern historical organization studies. The authors reply to the critique by drawing on Lefebvre’s notion…

Where eagles dare: a discussion on the debates about management history

Jeff Muldoon

The purpose of this paper is to contribute to the debate initiated by the “historic turn.” This debate has seen several rebuttals of the methodologies and conceptual frameworks…

Taking an eventful historic turn down the cultural memory lane

Nicholous M. Deal, Milorad M. Novicevic, Albert J. Mills, Caleb W. Lugar, Foster Roberts

This paper aims to find common ground between the supposed incompatible meta-historical positioning of positivism and post-positivism through a turn to mnemohistory in management…

Management and business history – a reflexive research agenda for the 2020s

Kevin Daniel Tennent

The purpose of this paper is to reflect back over his career as a management and business historian so far as to consider opportunities for the future of management and business…

Accounting, Foucault and debates about management and organizations

Bradley Bowden, Peta Stevenson-Clarke

Postmodernist ideas – most particularly those of Foucault but also those of Latour, Derrida and Barthes – have had a much longer presence in accounting research than in other…

False binaries in management history, and the scope for a postcolonial project

Nidhi Srinivas

This study aims to offer a postcolonial approach that goes past current management history controversies.

Mute, mutation, and mutiny: on the work of feminist epistemology

Marta B. Calás, Linda Smircich

This paper aims to bring to the fore the importance of feminist epistemologies in the history of the organization of management studies since the 1980s by following various…