Organization Theory in Business and Management History: Present Status and Future Prospects

Maclean, M; Harvey, C; Clegg, SR

Organization Theory in Business and Management History: Present Status and Future Prospects

Maclean, M Harvey, C Clegg, SR

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Publication Type:: Journal Article
Citation:: Business History Review, 2017, 91 (3), pp. 457 - 481
Issue Date:: 2017-01-01

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dc.contributor.author	Maclean, M	en_US
dc.contributor.author	Harvey, C	en_US
dc.contributor.author	Clegg, SR https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6083-4283	en_US
dc.date.issued	2017-01-01	en_US
dc.identifier.citation	Business History Review, 2017, 91 (3), pp. 457 - 481	en_US
dc.identifier.issn	0007-6805	en_US
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10453/111749
dc.description.abstract	Copyright © The President and Fellows of Harvard College 2017. A common lament is that business history has been marginalized within mainstream business and management research. We propose that the remedy lies in part with more extensive engagement with organization theory. We illustrate our argument by exploring the potentialities for business history of three cognitive frameworks: institutional entrepreneurship, evolutionary theory, and Bourdieusian social theory. Exhibiting a higher level of theoretical fluency might enable business historians to accrue scholarly capital within the business and management field by producing theoretically informed historical discourse, demonstrating the potential of business history to extend theory, generate constructs, and elucidate complexities in unfolding relationships, situations, and events.	en_US
dc.relation.ispartof	Business History Review	en_US
dc.relation.isbasedon	10.1017/S0007680517001027	en_US
dc.subject.classification	History of Social Sciences	en_US
dc.title	Organization Theory in Business and Management History: Present Status and Future Prospects	en_US
dc.type	Journal Article
utslib.citation.volume	3	en_US
utslib.citation.volume	91	en_US
utslib.for	1503 Business and Management	en_US
utslib.for	2202 History and Philosophy of Specific Fields	en_US
utslib.for	1402 Applied Economics	en_US
pubs.embargo.period	Not known	en_US
pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney
pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney/Faculty of Business
pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney/Faculty of Business/Management Discipline
utslib.copyright.status	open_access
pubs.issue	3	en_US
pubs.publication-status	Published	en_US
pubs.volume	91	en_US

Abstract:

Copyright © The President and Fellows of Harvard College 2017. A common lament is that business history has been marginalized within mainstream business and management research. We propose that the remedy lies in part with more extensive engagement with organization theory. We illustrate our argument by exploring the potentialities for business history of three cognitive frameworks: institutional entrepreneurship, evolutionary theory, and Bourdieusian social theory. Exhibiting a higher level of theoretical fluency might enable business historians to accrue scholarly capital within the business and management field by producing theoretically informed historical discourse, demonstrating the potential of business history to extend theory, generate constructs, and elucidate complexities in unfolding relationships, situations, and events.

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