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Business History
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Business History

by John F. Wilson, Ian G. Jones, Steven Toms, Anna Tilba, Emily Buchnea, Nicholas Wong
January 2022
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
148 pages
4h 41m
English
Routledge
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3 Business history and the ‘historic turn’

DOI: 10.4324/9780429449536-3

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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