História, Memória E Passado Em Estudos Organizacionais E De Gestão

Abstract

Our goals for this editorial are threefold. First, we contextualize the growing interest of management and organization scholars in matters of history, memory, and the past. Despite the increasing number of historical organization studies, functionalism and functional-interpretivism remain the dominant approaches in management and organization studies (MOS). Moreover, because European and North American scholars are overrepresented in the literature, analysis of the historical impact of global trade and multinational organizations on the relationship between the global North and South is limited. Second, we map the literature that connects history, memory, and the past to organizations and organizing. We provide an overview of MOS scholars' initial efforts to develop humanist approaches to organization studies and discuss the role history plays in informing epistemological, theoretical, methodological, and empirical conversations in the field. Third, we highlight specifically how the articles in this special issue contribute to the body of historical organization literature.

Herbert Simon’s Epistemological Itinerary on the Limits of Rationality

“…The particular exercise of the history of administrative science becomes crucial if we consider that the main relationship between the history of science and studies of administration and organizations is demonstrated in the broad circulation of texts on the history of management thought, the history of management, and the uses of historical research with a relativistic approach to the whole (Coraiola, Barros, Maclean, & Foster, 2021). In contrast, the actual history of scientific development in the area-in which not deviating from historical objectivity and realism is an essential aspect and one that we embrace in this study-does not seem to have gained the same audience, despite its prominent place alongside, more generally, the sociology of science (Serva, 2016).…”

A critical organizational history of city margins in the Global South

“…Noting the points on the agenda, in particular the third item: “Philosophy of History and Historical Theorists”, the authors highlight the work of several philosophers of history, whose approaches could be linked to themes of interest to management scholars. In this context, it appears that discussions of the relationship between philosophy and historical organization studies have sought ways to expand new epistemes in different themes in management studies (Coraiola et al ., 2021; De Cock et al. , 2013; Brunninge, 2009; Suddaby et al ., 2011; Srinivas, 2013).…”

“…Considering different historical contexts, these issues relating to the displacement of migrants have been addressed in numerous studies indicating impacts that can last for many generations (Hardy and Phillips, 1999; Phillips and Hardy, 1997). Thus historical organization studies are well equipped to clarify such complex issues that span multiple generations across time and space (Clark and Rowlinson, 2004; Coraiola et al ., 2021).…”

O Itinerário Epistemológico de Herbert Simon aos Limites da Racionalidade

“…O exercício particular de história da ciência administrativa passa a ser fundamental se considerarmos que a principal relação entre história da ciência e estudos em administração e organizações mostra-se na maior difusão dos materiais sobre a história do pensamento gerencial, história da gestão e usos da pesquisa histórica em tendência de talhe relativista no conjunto (Coraiola, Barros, Maclean, & Foster, 2021). Diferentemente, a história propriamente do desenvolvimento científico na área, em que é um aspecto decisivo não desviar da objetividade e do realismo históricos, aos quais aderimos nesta pesquisa, não parece ter obtido a mesma audiência, apesar do seu lugar de destaque ao lado, em geral, da sociologia da ciência (Serva, 2016).…”