Time—whether objective (“clock”) time or the subjective experience of time—is an essential
concept for understanding how individuals, teams, and organizations evolve, grow, learn …

Despite the rapid growth of research on organizational sensemaking and an
acknowledgment of the critical role of language in the sensemaking process, the literature …

The promise of a closer union between organizational and historical research has long been
recognized. However, its potential remains unfulfilled: the authenticity of theory development …

Abstract Research Summary This paper examines how strategy‐makers attempt to reconcile
change initiatives with organizational values and principles laid out long before, still …

This introductory chapter seeks to familiarize you with some of the major trends of recent
times that pervade the context of contemporary managing and organizations. Some of these …

History has long been recognised as a strategic and organisational resource. However, until
recently, the advantage conferred by history was attributed to a firm's ability to accumulate …

We advance a novel idea-centric perspective to study power-laden aspects of institutional
life in fields. Our study includes data from the field of impact investing in Europe from 2006 …

A growing body of research on how organizations engage with their histories has shown that
organizational members revisit history in the light of present-day concerns to inspire or …

Rhetorical history has emerged as a useful theoretical construct that bridges the long
recognized gap between historical and organizational scholarship. Despite its growing …

As a synthesis of organization theory and historiography, the field of organizational history is
mature enough to contribute to wider theoretical and historiographical debates and is …