Doing critical history differently: two decades of management and organizational history and the Halifax School
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Abstract
This year marks two decades of Management & Organizational History (M&OH). The journal has played a key role in consolidating the historic turn in organization studies. In this paper, we highlight an important contribution to consolidation: the development of the Halifax School. This school is a collective of organization scholars based primarily in Eastern Canada and is best known for advancing ANTi-History, archival reflexivity, and feminist historiography. We argue that this was made possible by M&OH’s longstanding affinity for interdisciplinarity and experimentation with critical methods in the field. Our work in this article illustrates the instrumental role M&OH played in incubating ‘The Halifax School’ and how the journal, since its inception, has provided a platform for the School. We explain how this symbiotic relationship helped position M&OH as the leading venue for historiographical innovation while nurturing new generations of history-conscientious scholars. We conclude with some discussion on the opportunities before both the journal and the Halifax School, especially where they might go in the future.
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Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
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| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.004 | 0.000 |
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Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
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