New Directions in Organizational and Management History

This book provides a valuable review of the disciplines of organizational and management history, illuminating the interconnectedness of these disciplines, identifying gaps in the literature, and sketching a model for a unified field of research and study. This co-authored study is a long-awaited theoretical re-evaluation of organizational and management history. The authors explore the disciplinary advantages of a joint approach to these related fields, noting opportunities for future scholarship, from the wider range of industries and case types to the richer theoretical toolbox. Within this framework, the book investigates interdisciplinary methodologies and surveys and analyzes the most promising of the newest theoretical lenses and empirical approaches in the field. The authors address complex issues from a metacritical perspective, from the emergent theorization of time in the context of organizational identity to the conundrum of case selection for empirical studies. Clear and thorough, the volume creates a compelling theoretical framework for future studies. New Directions in Organizational and Management History inaugurates, and sets the stage for, the new series De Gruyter Studies in Organizational and Management History.

Professor Sonia Coman, Curatorial Fellow, Freer and Sackler, Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC, USA.
Sonia Coman’s research focuses on cross-cultural exchanges in the long 19th century, the history of ceramics, and the history of collecting. Sonia received a B.A. from Harvard (Phi Beta Kappa, Magna cum laude) and a Ph.D. in Art History from Columbia (supervisor Prof. A. Higonnet), where she wrote her dissertation on a set of Japanese aesthetic principles that spurred a reinvention of French and Japanese ceramics in the late 19th century. At Columbia, she designed and taught an undergraduate seminar on the soft power of ceramic arts across world cultures. She is also an avid reader and writer of Japanese verse. Her poetry has been awarded and published internationally.

Professsor Andrea Casey, George Washington University, Washington DC, USA.
Andrea Casey is Associate Professor, Human & Organizational Learning at George Washington University. Dr. Casey’s teaching and research interests include organizational cognition in areas such as collective memory and organizational identity and learning. She is an active member of the Academy of Management (AOM) and has served as Division Chair for the Managerial and Organizational Cognition (MOC) Division and recently completed a three-year term on the Board of Governors. She has reviewed papers and proposals for multiple divisions of AOM including MOC, Research Methods, Organization and Management Theory, and Management Consulting and also reviews for the Eastern Academy of Management, the Academy of HRD, and the Organizational Learning, Knowledge and Capabilities International Conference. In addition she has reviewed for journals such as AOM Review, Organization Science, Management Learning, and Human Relations. Dr. Casey is on the Editorial Board of Management and Organizational History and was a member of the editorial board for the Journal of Management. She has more than 15 years’ experience as an external HRD consultant to state government and private non-profit organizations throughout the USA. In her HRD work, she is primarily involved in leadership development, strategic planning and organizational change initiatives. She is author of Organizational identity and memory: A multidisciplinary approach published by Routledge in 2018.