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A narrative of the historic turn in organization studies
No full textThe status of historical narratives in management studies is a key issue for the historic turn. While literary and management scholars are concerned with narrative analysis, historians focus on narrative composition. But the degree of narrativity differs in historical research, and recent developments in management and organization history have tended towards a greater analytical focus. The chapter presents these developments as a narrative, distinguishing between ‘the story’ (key publications in the historic turn) and ‘the plot’ (the reception of historical research in management studies). The ‘emplotment’ is ironic, because in recent years the focus on narrative has become conflated with the strategic use of historical narratives by organizations. Curiously, the historic turn has been most influential where it turns both history and narrative into the objects of research, rather than ways of doing research
Introduction:Why historical methods in management?
No full textThe historic turn instigated a substantial change in the study of management and organizations. New ideas and concepts have been introduced and this has led to new theoretical approaches for the study of the past in management and organizations. Nevertheless, the methods to study and test these new approaches have not kept pace. We argue that a missing aspect of the development of the field since the historic turn has been the interrogation of old methods and the introduction of new approaches, particularly through inclusive and cross-disciplinary perspectives. The historic turn has helped shift our ontological and epistemological positions regarding the past. As a consequence, we need to revisit our methods to explore what the past means, how it is understood, what counts as relevant data or sources, and why it is important for the study of new and different forms of organization and management
Special Issue Introduction:Historical Research on Institutional Change
Full text linkBoth business historians and organisation studies scholars study institutional change to understand the interactions between business and society. However, research approaches differ fundamentally, with organisational research focusing on theory-driven explanations, whereas historical research is rather theory-informed. The consequence of such disciplinary orientation is that interdisciplinary conversations rarely occur. For this special issue, we invited submissions that address how historical research can contribute to our understanding of institutional change while demonstrating ‘dual integrity’ in terms of being significant pieces of historical research that provide us with new insights into historiography and at the same time addressing important theoretical concerns
Archival research in the digital era
No full textHistorical research relies on archival sources, which are increasingly kept in digital formats. This chapter discusses the digital sources available to management researchers and where to find them. A key difference when working with digital sources is whether they were originally created digitally. Digitized sources are generally images of physical documents with basic text recognition. Born-digital sources have always existed digitally and often need to be searched computationally. We highlight the need for critical source analysis in the digital era, meaning that researchers should question why some sources are available digitally. Second, the nature of digital sources means that they can be analysed differently and that the degree of technology involved in interpreting them may vary significantly. Ultimately, while new collections and tools make digital collections more accessible, historical research approaches can build on a strong methodological tradition of identifying bias and silences through critical source analysis
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Full text link“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Full text linkWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Full text linkWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
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