Business history and the historiographical operation

Taylor, Scott; Bell, Emma and Cooke, Bill (2009). Business history and the historiographical operation. Management & Organizational History, 4(2) pp. 151–166.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/1744935909102906

Abstract

In this article we explore the implications of the epistemological position taken by writers of business history through a critical hermeneutic reading of recent key statements within this field. Using the theoretical lens provided by Ricoeur in Memory, History, Forgetting, we concentrate on the potentially reflexive nature of the historiographical operation that is involved in transforming memory into history. We argue that there is little sign of reflexive historiography within business history and suggest that this reluctance goes some way towards explaining the sub-discipline's relative isolation from the rest of organization and management studies.

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