All Outputs (12)

Cyber resiliency for digital enterprises: A strategic leadership perspective (2020)
Journal Article
Loonam, J., Zwiegelaar, J., Kumar, V., & Booth, C. (2022). Cyber resiliency for digital enterprises: A strategic leadership perspective. IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management, 69(6), 3757-3770. https://doi.org/10.1109/TEM.2020.2996175

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
of failure. Management and Organizational History, 8(1), 23-42

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
Booth, C., & Casbeard, R. (2012). Post-modernity and the exceptionalism of the present in dark tourism

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)
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Rowlinson, M., Booth, C., Clark, P., Delahaye, A., & Procter, S. (2010). Social remembering and organizational memory. Organization Studies, 31(1), 69-87. https://doi.org/10.1177/0170840609347056

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)
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Booth, C., Rowlinson, M., Clark, P., Delahaye, A., & Procter, S. (2009). Scenarios and counterfactuals as modal narratives. Futures, 41(2), 87-95. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.futures.2008.07.037

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)
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Delahaye, A., Booth, C., Clark, P., Procter, S., & Rowlinson, M. (2009). The genre of corporate history. Journal of Organizational Change Management, 22(1), 27-48. https://doi.org/10.1108/09534810910933898

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.

The genre of corporate history (2009)
Journal Article
Delahaye, A., Booth, C., Clark, P., Procter, S., & Rowlinson, M. (2009). The genre of corporate history. Journal of Organizational Change Management, 22(1), 27-48. https://doi.org/10.1108/09534810910933898

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.

Counterfactual history, management and organizations: Reflections and new directions (2008)
Journal Article
Maielli, G., & Booth, C. (2008). Counterfactual history, management and organizations: Reflections and new directions. Management and Organizational History, 3(1), 49-61. https://doi.org/10.1177/1744935908090997

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)
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Booth, C., Clark, P., Delahaye, A., Procter, S., & Rowlinson, M. (2007). Accounting for the dark side of corporate history: Organizational culture perspectives and the Bertelsmann case. Critical Perspectives On Accounting, 18(6), 625-644. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cpa.2007.03.012

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
Clark, P., Booth, C., Rowlinson, M., Procter, S., & Delahaye, A. (2007). Project hindsight: Exploring necessity and possibility in cycles of structuration and co-evolution. Technology Analysis and Strategic Management, 19(1), 83-97. https://doi.org/10.1080/09537320601065365

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)
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Booth, C., & Rowlinson, M. (2006). Management and organizational history: Prospects. Management and Organizational History, 1(1), 5-30. https://doi.org/10.1177/1744935906060627

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)
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Booth, C. (2003). Does history matter in strategy? The possibilities and problems of counterfactual analysis. Management Decision, 41(1), 96-104. https://doi.org/10.1108/00251740310445545

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.