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Publication date: 11 November 2019

In search of continuity: Theoretical and methodological insights from a case study of a Polish centennial company

Tomasz Olejniczak, Anna Pikos and Toshio Goto

This study aims to represent an early attempt to define the notion of continuity and empirically illustrate its explanatory potential and methodological challenges.

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Purpose

This study aims to represent an early attempt to define the notion of continuity and empirically illustrate its explanatory potential and methodological challenges.

Design/methodology/approach

This study combines historical and qualitative research techniques to conduct a qualitative analysis of continuity in the Jablkowski Brothers Department Store, a Polish centennial company. The paper highlights the potential synergies between historical and qualitative methods when applied to the analysis of long periods of time.

Findings

The authors find that using a theoretical framework of continuity provides novel ontological and epistemological insights into the nature of long-lived companies. Based on the findings, the authors present continuity in the context of existing theories and argue that it is a unique concept that deserves more scientific attention and rigorous empirical study.

Originality/value

This study contributes to the existing literature in three ways. First, it provides a brief, interdisciplinary overview of the concept of continuity. Second, it provides an empirical illustration of continuity analysis in a Polish centennial company with extremely discontinuous history. Finally, it positions continuity within the wider context of existing theories and shows how, through continuity, history can contribute to both the practice and theory of management.

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Journal of Management History, vol. 25 no. 4
Type: Research Article
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1108/JMH-01-2018-0008
ISSN: 1751-1348

Keywords

  • Continuity
  • Research methods
  • Longevity
  • Business history

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Publication date: 11 November 2019

Nurturing the historic turn: “history as theory” versus “history as method”

Wim Van Lent and Gabrielle Durepos

This paper aims to explore the turn in management and organization studies (MOS) and reflect on “history as theory” versus “history as method”.

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This paper aims to explore the turn in management and organization studies (MOS) and reflect on “history as theory” versus “history as method”.

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Looking at previous research and the evolution of MOS, this paper situates the special issue papers in the current climate of this area of research.

Findings

The special issue papers included here each make a theoretical contribution to methodology in historical organization studies.

Originality/value

The eight articles featured in the special issue offer examples of innovative and historically sensitive methodology that, according to the authors, increase the management historian toolkit and ultimately enhance the methodological pluralism of historical organization studies as a field.

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Journal of Management History, vol. 25 no. 4
Type: Research Article
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1108/JMH-03-2019-0017
ISSN: 1751-1348

Keywords

  • Historic turn
  • History as theory
  • History as method
  • Historiography

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