Management and Organizational History by Albert J. Mills;Milorad M. Novicevic;

Author:Albert J. Mills;Milorad M. Novicevic;
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Taylor & Francis (CAM)
Published: 2020-02-25T16:00:00+00:00

Booth and Rowlinson (2006) move through critiques of business ethics (as an ahistorical sub-field of MOS), and the metanarratives of corporate capitalism that are imposed on studies of organization and mask the origins of management theory in a diverse range of debates. For example, in a later publication, Rowlinson goes on to claim that the notion of scientific management has its roots in President Teddy Roosevelt’s concerns with conservation and his attempt to associate this with the idea of scientific management professionals (Cummings et al., 2017).

Finally, Booth and Rowlinson (2006) go on to warn of the dangers of management history (by which they seem to mean factualist accounts) that serve to reinforce the various associations of capitalism with the values of management studies, rather than encouraging students to question management theory as the outcome of power and the socio-politics of knowledge production. In a similar vein, Booth and Rowlinson (2006) suggest that the increasing popularization of public history may be in danger of reinforcing the idea that history provides factual accounts of actual or real events in time. Here they see a glimmer of hope in the development of counter histories whereby the author takes a known historical event (e.g., the defeat of Hitler) and asks “what if” the opposite had happened (e.g., that Hitler had won the Second World War)? Booth and Rowlinson contend that such histories have been a reaction of conservative and liberal “challenge[s] to the historical determinism that Marxists allegedly adhere to” (p. 21). Nonetheless, they continue, this “could also temper the determinism that prevails in the predominant theories of organization, and counterfactuals might be one way to counter such determinism.”22

History in translation

Shortly before the founding of Management & Organization History (MOH) in 2006 Mick Rowlinson and colleagues invited a number of management and organizational historians to a “Symposium on Counterfactual History in Management and Organizations” at Warwick University in the UK, in December 2005. Many of the presentations subsequently found their way into the pages of the new MOH – see volumes 2 (issue 4), and 3 (issue 1) over 2007–2008. Two of the articles in Volume 3 (1) by Mads Mordhorst, and Gabrielle Durepos, Albert Mills and Jean Helms Mills were, respectively, earlier iterations of what has been called the Copenhagen School and the Halifax School (Bettin, Mills, & Helms Mills, 2016; Corrigan, 2015; Mills, Suddaby, Foster, & Durepos, 2016).

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