Outputs (14)

Cyber resiliency for digital enterprises: A strategic leadership perspective (2020)
Journal Article

As organizations increasingly view information as one of their most valuable assets, which supports the creation and distribution of their products and services, information security will be an integral part of the design and operation of organizatio... Read More about Cyber resiliency for digital enterprises: A strategic leadership perspective.

Термен не мрет: A fractional biography of failure (2013)
Journal Article

Peter Hitchcock has described the subject of this paper as ‘the story of the twentieth
century’. Lev Termen (commonly anglicized as Leon Theremin) was a musician,
inventor, entrepreneur and espionage agent who developed the Theremin, an early
elec... Read More about Термен не мрет: A fractional biography of failure.

Post-modernity and the exceptionalism of the present in dark tourism (2012)
Journal Article

The paper is a polemical essay concerning approaches to the historical other; a critique of the exceptionalism of the present displayed in some of the contemporary dark tourism literature. We review claims in this literature that dark tourism is both... Read More about Post-modernity and the exceptionalism of the present in dark tourism.

Social remembering and organizational memory (2010)
Journal Article

Organizational Memory Studies (OMS) is limited by its managerialist, presentist preoccupation with the utility of memory for knowledge management. The dominant model of memory in OMS is that of a storage bin. But this model has been rejected by psych... Read More about Social remembering and organizational memory.

Scenarios and counterfactuals as modal narratives (2009)
Journal Article

Scenarios and counterfactuals are two types of modal narrative. Modal narratives concern themselves with contingency and determinism: with questions of possibility and necessity. While scenarios are future-oriented, focused on what might yet be, coun... Read More about Scenarios and counterfactuals as modal narratives.

The genre of corporate history (2009)
Journal Article

Purpose - This paper seeks to identify and define the genre of corporate history within the pervasive historical discourse produced by and about organizations which tells the past of an organization across a multiplicity of texts: published works - c... Read More about The genre of corporate history.

Modal narratives, possible worlds and strategic foresight (2009)
Book Chapter

The genre of corporate history (2009)
Journal Article

Purpose – This paper seeks to identify and define the genre of corporate history within the pervasive historical discourse produced by and about organizations which tells the past of an organization across a multiplicity of texts: published works – c... Read More about The genre of corporate history.

Critical management and organizational history (2009)
Book Chapter

Counterfactual history, management and organizations: Reflections and new directions (2008)
Journal Article

This article reflects on the papers published in the Symposium on 'Counterfactual History in Management and Organizations'. After describing the background to the symposium we review some important themes in the multidisciplinary domain of counterfac... Read More about Counterfactual history, management and organizations: Reflections and new directions.

Accounting for the dark side of corporate history: Organizational culture perspectives and the Bertelsmann case (2007)
Journal Article

Organizations are increasingly being called to account for their history. In particular, German and non-German companies have been called to account for their relations with the Nazi regime between 1933 and 1945. Organizations are not only accountabl... Read More about Accounting for the dark side of corporate history: Organizational culture perspectives and the Bertelsmann case.

Project hindsight: Exploring necessity and possibility in cycles of structuration and co-evolution (2007)
Journal Article

The successful management of strategic change requires an understanding of which moves are possible in specific contexts, and thus of how specific contexts variously require, forbid, or permit certain organizational or policy actions. Appreciation of... Read More about Project hindsight: Exploring necessity and possibility in cycles of structuration and co-evolution.

Management and organizational history: Prospects (2006)
Journal Article

We outline the prospects for Management and Organizational History in the form of a 10-point agenda identifying issues that we envisage being addressed in the journal. 1.The ‘Historic Turn’ in Organization Theory – calls for a more historical orienta... Read More about Management and organizational history: Prospects.

Does history matter in strategy? The possibilities and problems of counterfactual analysis (2003)
Journal Article

Does history matter in strategy? The lack of attention given to historical perspectives in the mainstream literature suggests that it does not. Recently, however, authors have argued that historical forces do affect the strategic management of organi... Read More about Does history matter in strategy? The possibilities and problems of counterfactual analysis.