Dear Colleagues,
Elena Giovannoni, Christina Lubinski, and I warmly invite you to Sub-theme 41: Tracing the Past: Historical Methods for Studying Entrepreneurship, Imagination, and Innovation, taking place at next year's EGOS Colloquium in Athens.
This sub-theme provides a space for scholars from different disciplinary perspectives and methodological traditions interested in combining themes of entrepreneurship, imagination, and innovation with historical approaches (both broadly defined). We welcome theoretical, empirical, and methodological studies addressing questions including but not limited to:
- What are the challenges and opportunities for nuanced historical research in organization studies? How can we enrich our use of sources through cross-disciplinary approaches?
- What sources can we draw upon to research the history of creative thought, ideas, movements, disruptive or revolutionary innovations, and emerging practices? How do historical approaches help us rethink creativity and imagination but also moral and ethical quests that underpin these innovations?
- What are the sensory, spatial, material, and visual properties of sources? How are they crafted and how do they relate to the phenomena that they trace?
- How can we connect and combine different types of historical sources and draw on their relations and texture? How can the different nature and features of historical sources help us innovate conventional methodological approaches?
- How can we study the lived and felt experiences of phenomena, including their ambiguity and gaps, through historical research?
- What can the past tell us about the dark side of innovation and creativity and the relationship such phenomena have with wrongdoing in an organizational or entrepreneurial context?
- What can 'unusual' historical sources – such as digital records and/or those artefacts not typically captured by traditional archival processes and institutions – bring to our understanding of entrepreneurship, imagination, and innovation?
For information on short paper requirements, click here.
Short paper deadline: Tuesday, January 7, 2025, 23:59:59 CET.
If you have any questions, please do contact one of us for further information.
Best wishes,
Elena Giovannoni
e.giovannoni@bham.ac.uk
Christina Lubinski
cl.bhl@cbs.dk
Adam Nix
a.nix@bham.ac.uk
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Adam Nix
Associate Professor
University of Birmingham
BIRMINGHAM
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