3 Business history and the ‘historic turn’
3.1 Introduction
Interest in the use of historical methods and sources has increased dramatically since the ‘historic turn’ that influenced the discipline of organization studies after Clark and Rowlinson (2004) produced their watershed article. Of course, there had been many earlier suggestions that social scientists ought to pay more attention to longitudinal matters (Zald, 1993; Kieser, 1994) but only after 2004 did this debate begin to embrace business historians. Crucially, though, it is worth examining exactly what kind of ‘historic turn’ had occurred and whether the ‘history’ that is argued as being of potential value to organization studies is the same as the ...
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