Organization Theory in Business and Management History: Present Status and Future Prospects
本文指出商业史在主流商业与管理研究中被边缘化，提出通过更广泛地运用组织理论（如制度创业、演化理论和布迪厄社会理论）来改善这一状况，帮助商业史学者在管理领域积累学术资本。
A common lament is that business history has been marginalized within mainstream business and management research. We propose that the remedy lies in part with more extensive engagement with organization theory. We illustrate our argument by exploring the potentialities for business history of three cognitive frameworks: institutional entrepreneurship, evolutionary theory, and Bourdieusian social theory. Exhibiting a higher level of theoretical fluency might enable business historians to accrue scholarly capital within the business and management field by producing theoretically informed historical discourse, demonstrating the potential of business history to extend theory, generate constructs, and elucidate complexities in unfolding relationships, situations, and events.