4 Evidence
Identifying History in Top Management Journals
Introduction
The growing calls for “more history” in management and organization studies were based on the implicit assumption that history—however defined—had a very negligible presence within the extant literature. While a cursory reading of that literature probably confirmed such an impression, a more systematic, quantitative examination would allow to obtain some indication of the degree to which history has actually found a place in management and organizational research and in what ways—as well as gaining some sense of whether or not these calls had any effect so far. Such an effort was made first by Rowlinson and Hassard (2013) and then by Leblebici (2014)—though both studies ...
