The Development of Business Archives in the United States: An Overview and a Personal Perspective

Adkins, Elizabeth

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“…Coraiola (2012) emphasizes that it was only after 1960 that the preservation of company documents for historical ends began to occur in Brazil, unlike in European companies who established the practice at the beginning of the 20 th century, and the United States of America (USA), France and England, who began to do so after the Second World War. As Adkins (1997) notes, in the USA, company archives gained ground rapidly in the 1970s, then lost momentum following the wave of business process reengineering in the 1990s, one of whose mottos was the reduction of organizational costs.…”

Section: Archives and The "Archive": Dialogue And An Agenda Of Researmentioning

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“…For Adkins (1997), the legitimacy of maintaining company archives was strongly supported by research into Business History by economists. Further, the author stresses that, while initial efforts were directed at organizing material that could tell the company's story from a positive point of view and as a public relations exercise, over time archives began to be seen as an instrument for the company's memory.…”

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Archives and the “Archive”: dialogue and an agenda of research in organization studies

Barros

2016

Organ. Soc.

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T his text considers the "Archive" as a concept and a transitional space and to bring together discussions from history and organizations in relation to theoretical and methodological concerns involving the use of archives. It sets out from the supposition that broadening our understanding of these terms may support historical research in Management to advance new questions about of a range of objects, including documents and archives. During this process we focus on the changes brought about by advances in information technology, particularly the internet, and put forward certain considerations concerning Organization Studies that rely on archives. The conclusion indicates that archives and the Archive are constituent elements of practices and structures, and that the field would benefit from a research agenda that took into consideration: 1) greater methodological awareness about the implications of the use of documents and archives; 2) discussions about organizations that archive and how archives shape practices within these organizations; 3) studies of already available documents, including those online; 4) an interrogation of knowledge in Management in relation to Archives.Key Words: Organization Studies and History. Archives. Documents.os Arquivos e o "Arquivo": diálogos com e umA AgendA de pesquisA em estudos orgAnizAcionAis Resumo E ste texto pretende discutir o "Arquivo" enquanto conceito e enquanto espaço (em transição) e tem como objetivo aproximar as discussões em história e organizações das preocupações teóricas e metodológicas que envolvem o uso de arquivos. Parte-se do pressuposto que aprofundar o entendimento desses termos pode contribuir para que a pesquisa histórica em Administração avance como novos questionamentos sobre diversos objetos, inclusive os documentos e os arquivos. No percurso foi dado foco às mudanças trazidas pelo avanço das tecnologias de informação, especialmente da internet, e foram realizadas algumas ponderações sobre os Estudos Organizacionais que se valem de arquivos. A conclusão aponta que os arquivos e o Arquivo são elementos constituintes de práticas e de estruturas e que o campo se beneficiaria de uma agenda de pesquisa que considerasse 1) maior consciência metodológica sobre as implicações do uso de documentos e arquivos; 2) discutir as organizações que arquivam e como os arquivos impactam em práticas de atores na organização; 3) pesquisas sobre documentos já disponibilizados, inclusive online; 4) interrogar os conhecimentos da Administração em sua relação com Arquivos. Palavras-chave:Estudos Organizacionais e História, Arquivos, Documentos.

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Section: Archives and The "Archive": Dialogue And An Agenda Of Researmentioning

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Section: Archives and The "Archive": Dialogue And An Agenda Of Researmentioning

confidence: 99%

Archives and the “Archive”: dialogue and an agenda of research in organization studies

Barros

2016

Organ. Soc.

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“…And documentation is even more scarce for corporate R&D than for industry as a whole. 12 So industry presents a new set of problems for us, and our current documentation research project is designed to help create a framework for identifying and preserving the records of physicists in industry on an ongoing basis.…”

Section: Journal Of Archival Organizationmentioning

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Difficult to Document: The History of Physics and Allied Fields in Industrial and Government Labs

Anderson¹

2005

Journal of Archival Organization

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Approximately thirty years ago archivists began formulating new models to guide archival collecting, creating a literature that continues to grow. In the mid-1980s, the introduction of the documentation strategy collection model put new emphasis on cooperation between repositories and among stakeholders. The model initially focused on the history of science, which has traditionally been poorly documented. Today, the documentation strategy model remains an essential tool in preserving the history of physics, astronomy, geophysics, and allied fields. The Center for History of Physics is using it to move beyond the records of academic science to develop strategies to preserve sources in the especially hard-to-document realms of government and corporate research.

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“…If we look at the development and professionalisation of corporate archive-keeping, as described by Adkins (1997) for instance, we see that organisations tend to use archival resources "to assist companies in meeting their current business needs". She adds that these are "far from the business historians who wanted access to records in order to write scholarly articles and books" (Adkins 1997).…”

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“…She adds that these are "far from the business historians who wanted access to records in order to write scholarly articles and books" (Adkins 1997).…”

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Compiled Hindsight? Publishers’ Archives in South Africa

Roux

2013

Restaurator. International Journal for the Preservation of Library and Archival Material

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Abstract:Publishing is an important cultural industry, and its products form part of the record of our social and cultural history. Yet what of the records of the publishers themselves -the voluminous correspondence, financial information, manuscripts, policies, review reports, and so on -and what is preserved of such records? In this paper, I propose to discuss the ways in which South African publishers keep -and do not keep -archives. If we are to write a full publishing history in this country, then it is imperative that there should be archives, records, sources of information. Yet publishers, while concerned with record-keeping for corporate purposes, turn out to be not particularly good at keeping records for posterity, for examination, or for independent study. A key problem is access to source material for further study, as often it has not been retained, or certain corporate archives are closed to outsiders and considered confidential. This problem is the result of a tension between why such archives may have been compiled for 'management information', precedent, or compliance and what users such as historians or other researchers may seek in them. There is a core difference in what each party regards as valuable. In other words, we may view publishers and their products as part of a cultural industry, but they largely view themselves as business entities. Another problem with sources results from the repressive legislation of the past, which banned books, suppressed authors and constrained publishers. The effect was to create gaps, omissions and even excisions in the archives that survive. This paper aims to examine which kinds of traces survive, and under what circumstances, in the archives of South African publishers, using a case study approach. As part of a larger, ongoing project, this would be of use to researchers who are seeking to write publisher histories, as well as to publishing houses with haphazard policies for sorting and retaining records for archival purposes.

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The Development of Business Archives in the United States: An Overview and a Personal Perspective

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Archives and the “Archive”: dialogue and an agenda of research in organization studies

Archives and the “Archive”: dialogue and an agenda of research in organization studies

Difficult to Document: The History of Physics and Allied Fields in Industrial and Government Labs

Compiled Hindsight? Publishers’ Archives in South Africa

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