The historic (wrong) turn in management and organizational studies

What is it about?

Widely hailed, this article argues that the so-called “historic turn” in management and organizational studies is in fact an historic wrong turn, a turn marked by mislabeling, misrepresentation, confusion and a strange reluctance to even acknowledge – let alone defend – underlying theoretical positions. Such confusions lead, in turn, to misunderstandings relating to “facts” (i.e. things that exist independently of our fancy), “evidence” (i.e. the medium through which I ascertain knowledge of a fact, be it a full or partial knowledge) and “interpretation” (i.e. the ways in which I connect evidence to explain an historical outcome).

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