Albert J. Mills is Professor of Management at Saint Mary’s University (Canada) and Professor of Innovation Management at the University of Eastern Finland. He is also the co-editor of the journal Qualitative Research in Organizations and Management. Milorad M. Novicevic (PhD, University of Oklahoma) is a former Chair of the Academy of Management – History Division and an Associate Professor at the University of Mississippi.
This excellent publication addresses central topics on the making of Management and Organizational History as no book before. This well written and thought provoking work is a must read for all interested on the topic specifically and those interested on management and organizations in general. Rafael Alcadipani Reflecting deeply on recent historical approaches to management and organization studies the authors have provided a uniquely reflexive account of the different histories, conceptions of histories and authors involved in recent scholarship that has sought to bring history back into focus in a largely ahistorical and instrumental field. The book will be a significant guide for those researchers seeking to disentangle the different approaches to histories involved in recent research, alerting them to the grounds and assumptions underlying various contributions. Stewart Clegg| D.Phil (Umea) D.Litt,(UTS) Ph.D (Bradford) BSc.Hons (Aston).Distinguished Professor History needs to be taken seriously in management and organization research, and Mills and Novicevic do just that. The books offers a thought-provoking critical analysis of the reasons and consequences of the ahistorical orientation in management and organization research. By so doing, this book adds to the recent historical turn and helps us to go deeper and further than what we typically think organization or management history is all about. Eero Vaara, Professor,Aalto University School of Business Albert and Milorad have captured the essence of work in the burgeoning field of `Management and Organizational History', spanning through the wide spectrum of underlying aspects of history-making - ranging from `the historic turn', amodernist perspective of historic turn, paradigmatic 10-point agenda on organizational history by Booth and Rowlinson (2006) till postmodernism influence on development of management and organizational history as relevant area of research. The book provides deep insights on positivist and postmodernist historiography. This book demonstrates the past role of historians, giving way to present day historians to owe the authorship of history production in management and organization Dr Gagan Deep Sharma,University School of Management Studies,Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University