Table of contents - Special Issue: Historical approaches in organizational research
Guest Editors: Peter van Baalen, Irma Bogenrieder
Using history in organizations: How managers make purposeful reference to history in strategy processes
Olof BrunningeThis paper aims to explore how organizational actors make reference to history and how they use historical reference purposefully in order to affect strategy‐making.
The genre of corporate history
Agnès Delahaye, Charles Booth, Peter Clark, Stephen Procter, Michael RowlinsonThis paper seeks to identify and define the genre of corporate history within the pervasive historical discourse produced by and about organizations which tells the past of an…
Path dependence, initial conditions, and routines in organizations: The Toyota production system re‐examined
Hugo van Driel, Wilfred DolfsmaThe purpose of this paper is to disentangle and elaborate on the constitutive elements of the concept of path dependence (initial conditions and lock‐in) for a concerted and…
Leadership style and entrepreneurial change: The Centurion operation at Philips Electronics
Luchien Karsten, Sjoerd Keulen, Ronald Kroeze, Rik PetersThis paper aims to look at the role of the top and middle management of the Philips organization during the transition from one type of organizational change to another in the…
The nature of the changing role of first‐tier managers: a long‐cycle approach
Lola‐Peach MartinsThe primary intention of this research paper is to systemically identify and discuss the longitudinal embedding of the nature of the changing role of first‐tier managers (FTMs) …
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