Organizations and Society: Historicising the theory and practice of organization analysis

管理与组织历史（MOH）是一个新兴的研究领域，它从组织的历史演变和嵌入性的角度来发展理解组织在社会中的作用的新方法。虽然自20世纪90年代以来，组织研究已经讨论了一个历史性的转折（Clark & Rowlinson, 2004; Kieser, 1994; McDonald, 1996），但直到最近几年，对现有的理解组织性质和目的的方法的幻想破灭，才导致社会科学家更深入地研究人文学科，特别是历史学的见解（Durepos & Mills, 2012; Suddaby et al., 2010）。然而，在更广泛的利益集团、思想和权力结构的背景下处理时间、过程和展开决策，往往是在组织研究中通过高度机械和非历史的模型提出的，这些模型反映了社会科学和人文科学之间长期存在的理论和方法差异。只是在过去的十年中，来自历史和组织研究的各种学者才试图通过扩展社会学理论（制度理论、行动者网络理论和后结构主义方法）的最新发展的理论见解或编纂历史方法论（由于后现代的挑战，在过去的几十年里发生了重大变化）来弥合跨学科的差距。这一跨学科项目正开始以卫生部的名义得到巩固，2004年创办了一本同名的新期刊，大大促进了这一项目的发展。最近有一些出版物（McLaren et al，即将出版；Bucheli & Wadwhani, 2014）对该领域的早期研究进行了新的综合。其中最重要的是由调查小组撰写的一篇文章（Rowlinson, Hassard, Decker，即将出版），该文章已在管理研究的主要理论期刊《管理评论学院》（影响因子7.8）上发表，这篇文章可能会改变该领域在英语世界及其他地区的商业和管理学院中的地位。因此，我们认为是时候审查构成卫生部的各种研究流了。这些研讨会将首次汇集来自北美（Mills、Suddaby）、英国（Cook、Gabriel、Harvey、Hassard、Holt、McKinlay、Rowlinson）和欧洲大陆（Hansen、Mordhorst）的顶尖学者。这些活动将是巩固和系统化现有工作的核心，并将促进探索进一步调查和方法发展的途径，这将使联合王国处于一个越来越有影响力的研究领域的中心。研讨会将集中于三个相互交叉的主题，每个主题都由一名研究人员领导：-存档的理论与实践（斯蒂芬妮·德克尔）-组织记忆（迈克尔·罗林森）-组织分析的新选择（约翰·哈萨德）六个研讨会将在不同的大学举办，为期两年，将分别探索这些主题并相互作用。特别是前两个主题将大量吸引非学术用户，因为它试图参与英国遗产的组织档案的未来。此外，该系列研讨会将通过将一些英语研究与丹麦、瑞典、荷兰、德国和意大利等拥有卫生部研究集群的其他国家的研究辩论联系起来，促进与欧洲大陆学术界和非学术界伙伴的交流。因此，哥伦比亚广播公司的参与是创建一个研究人员和实践者网络的关键因素，该网络可以探索获得欧洲资助以支持未来研究的途径。

Management and Organizational History (MOH) is an emerging research area that is developing new ways of understanding the role of organizations in society from a perspective of their historical evolution and embeddedness. While a historic turn has been discussed in organization studies since the 1990s (Clark & Rowlinson, 2004; Kieser, 1994; McDonald, 1996) it has only been in recent years that disillusionment with existing approaches to understanding the nature and purpose of organisations has led social scientists to engage more deeply with the insights from the humanities and specifically history (Durepos & Mills, 2012; Suddaby et al., 2010). However, the treatment of time, process and the unfolding of decision-making within the wider context of interest groups, ideas and power structures is often presented in organization studies through highly mechanistic and a-historical models which reflect long-standing theoretical and methodological differences between the social sciences and humanities. It is only in the last decade that a variety of scholars from history as well as organization studies have sought to bridge the interdisciplinary gap by either extending theoretical insights from recent developments in sociological theory (institutional theory, actor-network theory, and post-structuralist approaches) or codifying historical methodology (which has changed significantly in the past decades as a result of the post-modern challenge). This interdisciplinary project is beginning to consolidate under the name of MOH, and its evolution was significantly furthered by the creation of a new journal in 2004 by the same name. Recently there have been a number of publications (McLaren et al, forthcoming; Bucheli & Wadwhani, 2014) that are providing a new synthesis of the early research in the area. Most significantly among these is an article written by the team of investigators (Rowlinson, Hassard, Decker, forthcoming) that has been published by the major theory journal in management studies, Academy of Management Review (impact factor 7.8), which is likely to change the status of the field within business and management schools in the English-speaking world and beyond. Hence we believe that the time has come to review the various research streams that make up MOH. These seminars will bring together for the first time the leading academics from North America (Mills, Suddaby), the UK (Cook, Gabriel, Harvey, Hassard, Holt, McKinlay, Rowlinson) and continental Europe (Hansen, Mordhorst). These events will be central in consolidating and systematizing existing work and will facilitate the exploration of avenues for further investigation and methodological developments that will put the UK at the centre of an increasingly influential area of research.The seminars will focus on three intersecting themes, each under the leadership of one of the investigators:- Theory and practice of archiving (Stephanie Decker)- Organizational remembering (Michael Rowlinson)- New alternatives to organizational analysis (John Hassard)Six seminars will be hosted at different universities over a period of two years which will explore these themes separately and in interaction. Particularly the first two themes will engage non-academic users heavily, as it seeks to engage with the future of organizational archives for the UK's heritage. Moreover the seminar series will facilitate exchange with academics and non-academic partners in continental Europe by connecting some of the English-language research with research debates in other countries that have clusters of MOH research, such as Denmark, Sweden, the Netherlands, Germany and Italy. The participation of CBS is thus a crucial factor for creating a network of researchers and practitioners that can explore avenues to gain European funding to support future research.