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