Historicity in Organization Studies -

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Résumé :
As soon as we go beyond the borders of our present and begin to explore remote pasts and futures, management and organization scholars are exposed to two dangers. The first is the exaggeration of continuities and anachronism about the past. The second is the projection of present ordinariness into the future. So how can we describe long-term processes of entrepreneurship, accounting, marketing, finance, information systems or innovation? This edited volume gathers a team of leading interdisciplinary scholars inspired by process philosophy, phenomenologies, and critical schools. After presenting issues, debates, and perspectives likely to inspire and guide historical description, several examples of historical work in entrepreneurship, accounting, and organization studies are used to show situations in which researchers have had to tackle this resonance between ontology and methodology in their historiography. It will be of great interest to scholars and students of management and organization studies....

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Chapter 1: Introduction Historicity in Organization Studies Describing events and actuality at the borders of our present.- Chapter 2: Eventalizing the Kaali Meteorite SocioOrganizational Reality as Dynamic Configuration of Events.- Chapter 3: Towards Negative Ontologies of Time The Inclusion of Non-events in Organizational Historiography.- Chapter 4: A Foucauldian Perspective on Ethics and Subjectivation in the Making of History.- Chapter 5: Time Space and the Becoming of Chance in Platform Capitalism.- Chapter 6: History of a digital institution in the making Observing more than 14 years of eCODEX the European eJustice system.- Chapter 7: A Critical Genealogy of Time Control Devices in France.- Chapter 8: Building the Myth of the Entrepreneur The Case of Steve Jobs.- Chapter 9: Changing Narrative Through Theatre The Case of Bergamo ER Theatre Covid Play.- Chapter 10: Commemoration as Discourses of Dark Industrial Pasts Saunters through Popular Company and Factory Museums.- Chapter 11: Spreading global leadership and democracy Harvard Business School at the Edge of Time 1908 to 2024.- Chapter 12: Historiography and Historical Organization Studies Synthesizing the Historic Turns Legacy.- Chapter 13: Between Ordinary and Extraordinary Events Reconceptualizing Historical Events and Historicity in OS.