Advancing New Understandings of History in the Management Field.

Scholars in the management field have been increasingly interested in how historical factors and processes affect current organizational behaviors and have called for a fuller integration of a historical perspective into organization and management theory. This symposium brings together a diverse set of papers that explore different ways through which history affects the present and provide implications for future research and practice. Specifically, the first paper extends path dependence theory by proposing a model of path-breaking organizational change and elaborating how paths can change. The second paper illustrates how the institutional logics perspective can help better integrate history into organizational research via historical contextualization, recognition of the constitutive power of history and histories, and a focus on how history-making is itself historically situated. The third paper develops the concept of moral cover in network research and applies history-based research methods to issues of strategy and organization. The fourth article reviews and reconceptualizes adaptation as a typical way to leverage history. The last article builds a more systematic understanding of how history matters by developing a typology that includes two types of historical formation conditions and three types of subsequent evolutionary processes. As a set, the papers offer new insights into how organization and management theories are affected by historical processes and shed new light on management history research. Breaking a Path by Creating a New One'Insights from a Healthcare Setting Presenter: Joerg Sydow; Freie U. Berlin Presenter: Florian Stache; Freie U. Berlin The Logics of History, and the Historicity of Logics Presenter: Christopher W. J. Steele; U. of Alberta Presenter: Milo Shaoqing Wang; U. of Alberta Friends in the Right Places: The Influence of Slave-Trading Quakers on Network Partners (1750-1807) Presenter: Paul Ingram; Columbia U. Presenter: Brian Silverman; U. of Toronto Reset: Stock-Taking and Rethinking Organizational Adaptation as Congruence Presenter: Rodolphe Durand; HEC Paris Presenter: Andrew Sarta; Ivey Business School Presenter: Jean-philippe Vergne; Ivey Business School How History Matters Presenter: Christopher Marquis; Cornell U. Presenter: Kunyuan Qiao; Cornell U. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]