Doing critical history differently: two decades of management and organizational history and the Halifax School
Bibliographic record
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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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.008 | 0.009 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.003 | 0.003 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.026 | 0.052 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.019 | 0.010 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.005 |
| Research integrity | 0.003 | 0.006 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.004 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".