Zwrot historyczny w teorii organizacji: splatając ważne wątki w badaniach nad praktykami pamięci organizacyjnej
The Historic Turn in Organization Studies: Weaving Together the Important Threads in Organizational Memory Studies

Summary/Abstract: This article presents the historic turn in organization theory—a new research stream which has emerged at the interface of organization studies, memory studies, and history. The first part of the article aims to show the sources for this increased interest in history and memory in management and organization studies. The historic turn would not be possible without a number of other breakthroughs in the humanities, most notably the narrative turn. In organization studies, the historic turn is a consequence of disappointment with both organizational culture and previous ways of conceptualizing history in management theory. The second part of the article presents key themes in the emergent body of research. Even though the community of scholars associated with the historic turn is dispersed and their methods and theoretical approaches vary, it is possible to find common focal points involving practices of remembering in organizations: organizational identity and its performances for internal and external publicities, history and memory as an instrument of organizational power (management of memory), and mechanisms of coping with social change. The historic turn touches upon issues that are central to sociological inquiries into organizations.

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