Archival Study Research Articles

Consumers and other audiences often penalize products that combine unrelated elements. In this paper, we document the consequences of that penalty for the evaluation of the elements being combined. Building on the idea that audiences cannot fully disentangle the quality of “fit” between elements from the quality of the elements individually, we argue that audiences are likely to direct their dislike of a misfit product to the individual elements being combined. Using an archival study of the music industry and an online experiment with photographic galleries, we find that evaluations of individual elements (songs, photographs) are influenced by product-level fit (albums, galleries). Elements of misfit products are evaluated less favorably than they would have been otherwise. Moreover, this bias is exacerbated when the evaluation of the whole product is emphasized. We discuss the implications of this “misfit bias” for the innovation, entrepreneurship, and categories literatures. Supplemental Material: The online appendix is available at https://doi.org/10.1287/orsc.2023.17462 .

In the last decade, several studies have been made in Latvia (Klotiņš 2018; Konstante 2017; Ķencis 2019), the focus of which has been the art of totalitarianism, or the so-called Stalin period, as well as the folklore sector in political, ideological and institutional discourse, leaving the personality in the background. The article focuses on an individual personality because the work and life of the poet Jānis Sudrabkalns (1894–1975) offer an opportunity to study his motivation for choosing behavioural strategies when he finds himself in a totalitarian regime and where they lead him. The purpose of the article is 1) to reveal the motivation that determined the behavioural strategy chosen by Sudrabkalns during the first year of Soviet occupation (June 17, 1940 – June 29, 1941); 2) to show that becoming a collaborator/ collaborationist was a process characterised by a fluctuation between collaboration and collaborationism during this period; 3) with examples of poetry and journalism, to reveal how collaboration and collaborationism are manifested in his creative work. The sources of the research are two collections of poems from the interwar period of Sudrabkalns, articles and poems published in periodicals during the first Soviet period; additional material is also provided by the collection of Sudrabkalns and Arturs Baumanis in the Museum of Literature and Music. The biographical method, close reading of the text, and archival studies were important in the research, as well as the concepts “collaboration” and “collaborationism”, which allow a more nuanced understanding of the path to collaborationism. An evaluation of certain events in Sudrabkalns’s life and an insight into his creative work during the interwar period and the first year of Soviet rule serve as the basis for reconstructing his motivations. This allows for the hypothetical conclusion that the poet’s collaboration and collaborationism were significantly influenced by the international situation at the beginning of the Second World War and the German-USSR war, but as well as his personality traits and personal motives, it also allowed us to outline the further consequences of his personality and creative work in the totalitarian regime.

The Latvian exile literature features various topics – from the depiction of the past, experiences of the transitional period, the impressions of the new places of residence, from Latvia’s countryside and Riga to the displaced persons camps in war-torn Germany and the depiction of far-away lands. Around the end of the 1950s, this range of topics was supplemented by descriptions of Soviet Latvia (among the authors providing them were Anšlavs Eglītis, Aīda Niedra, Pāvils Klāns, Alfreds Dziļums), but at that time this was more of a construction of the soviet environment; an authentic experience was missing from it. The present article concentrates on the time and experience when the Latvian writers in exile found an opportunity to return to Soviet Latvia or visit it. They arrived there as guests or tourists. This experience was transformed into impulses for the creation of new texts. They feature a multitude of personal observations and impressions, displaying apparent discord between the past (recollections) and present, and also acute issues of belonging or identity are strongly present. The aim of the article is, on the basis of the novel “To the Gate – and Beyond?” (Līdz vārtiem – un tālāk?, 1988) by writer Aina Zemdega and using close reading, a biographical approach and archival studies, to look at how the text reveals Soviet reality and what shapes it. Although the novel cannot be perceived as autobiographical, the literary work was built on experiences from several visits to Latvia by the author Zemdega. On one hand, the novel is shaped as a personalised message; on the other, it reaches beyond the limits of a single personal story and attains the shape of a generalised view and impressions by a Latvian, a tourist from Canada, arriving in Soviet Latvia. The chosen text is emphasised by the attachment to a location – Riga, where the narrator Maija arrives, crossing several foreign, even hostile borders. The text marks the trip to Soviet Latvia, emotions, observations in Latvia, mostly Riga, and the departure. When arriving in Soviet Latvia, a broad emotional spectrum is opened, with clear-cut dissonance – between one’s own (place, environment, and landscape recorded in one’s memory) and the alien or alienated, transformed place, the linguistic environment, and dullness of the surroundings seen in reality. As a literary text, the novel by Zemdega includes a strong context of the age, a sketch of the environment, it possesses some documentality of sorts, and signs of the historical time, with points of the writer’s biography interwoven into it, thus making the literary text approach quite an authentic depiction of the Soviet reality. A study of a single novel in the crossing points of the age and a writer’s biography proves that also such literary texts may include substantial issues of the XX century Latvia, helping to form an understanding of the dramatic character of human fate in the period, even if it is an outsider’s view of Soviet reality.

Purpose This paper aims to develop a methodology for designing job roles with a core set of knowledge requirements, skill sets and activities adaptable to different contexts, contributing to job role clarity as a dimension of supply chain visibility. Design/methodology/approach The study undertook a multi-method approach, including an archival study of over a thousand job adverts, published professional recruitment documents and qualitative analysis of expert focus groups. Detailed data coding was followed by applying Bloom’s taxonomy to establish strategic, tactical and operational knowledge and skills requirements for indicative job roles. Findings The developed methodology created a framework relating specified job role characteristics, detailing knowledge and activity requirements and training needs. With a core set of evolving identifiers, the job role enabled local adaptation to be accessible at various levels of local, national and international markets. Research limitations/implications The methodology was focused on the work of expert teams and would benefit from the addition of a data-driven component based on machine learning technologies. Practical implications The five-step methodological approach leads to a framework for determining job role requirements, applicable in different contexts and situations across a supply chain, using a standard template to enhance visibility to all participants. The framework reduces job ambiguity while contributing to supply chain visibility by clarifying job roles, and identifying requirements and training needs for each defined job role. Originality/value The value gained from using the developed methodology is that SCM managers and departments can work closely with HR departments to understand the primary skills, knowledge gaps and training necessities. The benefit is gained by the individual, the organisation and the specific sector with comparable job roles to provide consistency for recruitment requirements, pay scales and remuneration and training and education requirements across and between supply chains.

The article is devoted to the scientific development of national standardization in archival work in the context of the functioning of international standardization. Particular attention is paid to the thematic analysis of research in scientific professional publications in the specialty 029 "Information, library, and archival studies". The scientometric analysis is used to trace the publication activity of research on the development of standardization in the archival sector of Ukraine. The thematic focus of the research was determined and it was stated that the largest number of publications is related to the study of international regulatory documents on archival matters and the possibility of their implementation in Ukraine. The core of the most active researchers was established. It was concluded that providing the archival industry with regulatory documents is of partial and permanent scientific interest. The priority areas of study for the researchers were strengthening the domestic base of standards with international standards on archival matters, updating the archival terminology system taking into account international experience and technological progress.

Expressions of gratitude are associated with many benefits in the context of social relationships. Indeed, Algoe’s (2012) find-remind-and-bind theory of gratitude proposes that expressions of gratitude serve the innately relational function of finding and drawing people closer to responsive relationship partners. Despite this prior work demonstrating the importance of gratitude to relationships, no prior research or theory has considered how a partner’s expressions of gratitude may influence the self. Based on sociometer theory (Leary, 1999, 2021), we hypothesized that partner expressions of gratitude signal relational value, thereby predicting enhanced self-esteem for the target of gratitude expressions. To test this novel proposition, we drew upon two archival studies. Study 1 used 11 years of longitudinal data in which 4,990 individuals ( k = 33,846) in committed relationships reported on their partner’s expression of gratitude and their self-esteem at yearly intervals. In Study 2, undergraduate students ( N = 119 people and k = 891) completed a 10-day diary survey in which they reported on a romantic partner or close other’s gratitude expression, their self-esteem, and their feelings of relational value. In both studies, greater partner expressions of gratitude were associated with greater self-esteem at the within- and between-person levels, even controlling for prior wave levels of self-esteem. Moreover, in Study 2, greater perceived relational value mediated the association between greater daily partner expressions of gratitude and greater daily self-esteem. These results provide initial evidence that gratitude expressions not only function to guide people to more meaningful relationships, but are also associated with enhanced relational value, and therefore greater self-esteem.

In vivo therapeutic coaching of parent-child interactions is the primary mechanism of change in behavioral parent training programs such as parent-child interaction therapy (PCIT), yet relatively little research has examined the coaching process. The primary aim of this study was to explore the bidirectional interaction between therapist-parent dyads to better understand how therapists influence parent behavior and vice versa. Observational data from two research projects were analyzed separately and together using lag sequential analysis (LSA). Results demonstrate that therapist responsive coaching (e.g., praising parent behavior) led parents to use more child-centered skills. Responsive coaching techniques led to immediate increases in parents' use of the targeted positive parenting skill (10%-25% re-use). Responsive strategies followed targeted parent verbalizations more often than directive strategies, suggesting that therapists reinforce positive parenting skills as soon as parents use them. When directive coaching techniques were used, there was a 18% to 32% chance that parents followed through with a child-centered skill as coached. This study is the first to explore the influence of in vivo coaching on parent skill acquisition on a micro-level and has implications for the therapist training.

The purpose of the article is to bring into scientific circulation and publish hitherto unknown historical sources from Polish archival repositories (Krakow) relating to the events in the Right-Bank Hetmanate on the eve of the Polish-Turkish war of 1672–1676. Methodology. The study uses biographical and historical and logical methods of studying historical sources with the involvement of special methods of archaeology, source studies, documentary studies, archival studies and paleography. The scientific novelty of the article lies in the fact that it is the first to analyze and publish a number of documents of 1671–1672: the so-called letters of news and “news” (avis, information, etc.), which at that time played the role of newspapers. This article examines the letters of news (news, avis, information, relays, etc.) relating to the first year of the Polish-Turkish war of 1672–1676. These documents played the role of a kind of newspaper at the time and outnumbered printed ones in terms of their number and efficiency. They allow us to recreate quite accurately the picture of the first year of the war, the first half of 1672 (before the fall of Kamianets-Podilskyi), and the preparations for it, in which the Ottoman Empire’s vassals – the Crimean Khanate, Moldova, and Wallachia – took part, the difficult situation in the Right-Bank Hetmanate, which was forced to fight the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, the Moscow State, the Ottoman Empire, and the Crimean Khanate, which led to the emergence of various political groups and internecine struggles that deepened the so-called Ruin. The so-called Ruin. Additional light is shed on the military-political situation, especially in Podillia, and unknown facts about Hetmans Petro Doroshenko, Mykhailo Khanenko, and colonels (Ivan Sirko, Lysytsia, Kyiashko, etc.) are presented. It should be noted that, despite the undoubted positive aspects, the letters have certain drawbacks, which affected the degree of their reliability. First of all, this is the use of unreliable rumours, unverified second-hand information, although it was not always possible to verify the information received. Type of article: review and archaeographic.

The purpose of the study is to analyze the historical development of volleyball in the city of Khabarovsk, identifying key stages and factors that contribute to the popularization of this sport in the region. Research methods and organization include archival studies, analysis of publications in local newspapers and magazines, scientific literature, and information from Internet resources, as well as conversations with prominent representatives of the volleyball community in Khabarovsk. Special attention is given to the historical and social aspects that have influenced the development of volleyball in the region. Research results. Volleyball began to develop in Khabarovsk in the 1920s, and during this period, a stable system for training athletes was established in the city. Key stages of development have been identified, such as the creation of the first volleyball sections and clubs in the city. Thanks to the efforts of Khabarovsk volleyball players, technical elements of the game were established, and professional clubs emerged, contributing to the strengthening of sports traditions and the popularization of volleyball in the region. Conclusions. The study confirmed that volleyball in Khabarovsk is developing at a sufficiently high level, possessing a rich history and stable sports traditions. Volleyball has become an integral part of the city's sports culture, forming a significant community of participants and fans. Established traditions and achievements of Khabarovsk teams emphasize the importance of volleyball for the local population and contribute to the further development of volleyball traditions, as well as strengthening the sports image of the region. The necessity of preserving and popularizing volleyball traditions has also been noted, which will contribute to the harmonious development of sports in Khabarovsk.

PurposeThis study explores whether and how archival records can address the social oppression faced by Chinese immigrants through community engagement, with the aim of fostering transformative change within marginalized communities.Design/methodology/approachGuided by Paulo Freire’s concepts of generative themes and dialogue, this community-based qualitative case study engaged seven participants in a workshop that used archival materials about Chinese immigration history. Participants interacted with three groups of materials and had collective discussions. They reflected on their perceptions of the history and stories documented in the archival materials and further shared insights on the fairness of current immigration systems, as well as potential changes necessary for a more equitable immigration system.FindingsThe archival records activated dialogues in which participants expressed disappointment with historical and ongoing exclusion by the government. They critiqued social beliefs such as the expectation that Asians must conform to white normativity to be accepted in the United States. Participants explored the challenges facing the community, reflected on how their experiences resonate with the archival stories and identified the “cyclical oppression” of the Chinese immigrant community. I propose this process as “dialogue-based archives,” which engages marginalized community members in conversations through archival records, fostering mutual respect, active listening, sharing of lived experiences and critical reflection on oppression.Originality/valueDialogue-based archives effectively engage marginalized communities. It also constitutes rigorous scholarship, contributing to the field of Library and Information Science (LIS) by challenging the dominant white-elitist and Euro-Anglo-centric discourse within the field and highlighting the value of archival engagement work in addressing the needs of marginalized communities. It also specifically contributes to critical archival studies by providing grassroots insights into collection building and description.

Archival research narratives often described in terms of “serendipity” might be appropriately recast in terms of “schadenfreude” insofar as they direct researchers to focus on more privileged historical and archival subjects. How can feminist rhetoricians work against archival contingencies that make some stories easier to find and tell than others? Collaborations with archivists offer one means of crafting more multifaceted histories. This article articulates the promise of two methods from Critical Archival Studies: reading along the grain and expanding notions of provenance.

Since Tirana became Albania’s capital, its urban transformation has reflected the ambitions and ideologies of successive governing regimes. This study examines the city’s architectural and morphological evolution, analyzing how political, social, and economic shifts have influenced its urban fabric from the 1920s to the present. The research employs a historical and morphological analysis of Tirana’s urban form, integrating insights from urban theorists such as Whitehand, Oliveira, and Dovey. It reconstructs the city’s development by categorizing architectural typologies across five key historical periods. Archival research, spatial mapping, and case study analysis of representative buildings and planning policies form the core of the study’s methodological approach. The study reveals that Tirana’s urban transformation is marked by phases of expansion, socialist central planning, and post-communist redevelopment. Each governing regime has imposed distinct planning strategies, ranging from rigid, state-controlled designs to contemporary neoliberal densification policies. Recent urban planning documents advocate for extensive demolition and reconstruction, often at the expense of traditional urban structures, raising concerns about heritage preservation and socio-spatial justice. This research provides a critical reassessment of Tirana’s urban development by integrating historical and contemporary urban planning perspectives. It highlights the city’s transition from a fragmented town to a contested urban landscape shaped by ideological shifts, offering new insights into how political narratives manifest in architectural and planning practices. The study underscores the need for a balanced approach that preserves historical identity while accommodating future urban growth.

Nonhuman life is increasingly analyzed and acted upon through big data and AI tools. Birds in particular are among the most datafied wild beings. However, avian—like human—data sets present challenges of bias, misclassification, and harmful collection methods. For example, avian data includes bias along lines of sex and sexuality, female, queer, and intersex birds are significantly understudied. These missing birds not only represent consequences for biodiversity loss but also “naturalize” assumptions about sex and sexuality for all species, including humans. In this article, we interrogate avian datafication practices and introduce Salvaging Birds, a multimodal project proposing “queer data surrogacy” as a method for generating “queer ecological data,” that is data resisting normative environmental frameworks. Here queer data surrogates were produced by creatively subverting AI toward generating speculative missing birds. Bridging critical data and archival studies with queer ecology, we argue that data logics demand examination at nonhuman sites and scales.

ABSTRACTIn this study, data rescue and analysis of available station archives from the late 19th and the early 20th century were carried out to re‐investigate Ireland's maximum air temperature record of 33.3°C at Kilkenny Castle on 26 June 1887. In addition to analysing this data in detail, we also conducted a comprehensive investigation of newspaper archives and meteorological documents published at the time of the record. The year 1887—and the month of June in particular—was exceptional in Ireland, with unprecedented drought and heat conditions across the island. Many places saw high temperatures during this period, with several stations recording temperatures in excess of 30°C. We also investigated inspectors' reports and station metadata for Kilkenny Castle, which lend support to the record temperature. A thorough analysis of the rescued data showed that for some measures (such as the temperature spread across the island on the day of the record), the data support the record temperature; but for some other measures (such as the monthly mean of maximum temperatures), the difference between Kilkenny and the neighbouring stations appears to be anomalous. Following a careful consideration of all of the evidence from both the metadata and the data analysis, our recommendation is that the long‐standing record maximum air temperature value of 33.3°C for Kilkenny Castle on 26 June 1887 should continue to stand, but with some reservations noted.

The complex relationship between archival records and institutions, power, and history making is a shared concern of both archival and feminist research and praxis. This paper reports key findings of a critical literature review that examines the presence and prevalence of critical feminist theories, practices, and approaches employed in archival studies research between 1973-2024. Our key findings highlight how feminist approaches not only serve archival studies research that aims to promote visibility, credibility, control, and care to communities whose voices have been systematically excluded from mainstream archives but also encourages an array of archival functions and practices embedded in critical intersectional feminist values, methods, and ethics.

In a world where five stars have become the standard for evaluating many transactions and consumers turn to the crowd for guidance when making a wide variety of choices, organizations cannot dismiss online reviews as inconsequential. And whereas we know a lot about how organizations respond to reviews online, there has been a lack of systematic evidence showing how organizations behave in response to online feedback once their screens are turned off. This paper leverages a novel combination of insights from a lab-in-the-field experiment, an archival study, and two rounds of qualitative interviews in the French restaurant industry to examine online and offline responses to reviewer feedback. We identify characteristics of the review, the restaurant, and the respondent that influenced when restaurants in our sample were more likely to align their actions online and offline and when they were more likely to decouple them—that is, posting an online response promising to take corrective action while having no intention to change how the restaurant operates “in real life.” We conclude by speculating on potential mechanisms behind our respondents’ reactions and discussing our contribution to the literature on producer reactivity and the symbolic management of change. Funding: This work was supported by Università Bocconi, Labex Ecodec, and Fondation HEC. Supplemental Material: The online appendix is available at https://doi.org/10.1287/orsc.2020.14091 .

Rewriting the Quantum "Revolution".

The historic events of 1917 marked a turning point in all areas of human activity. The beginning of the revolution in Russia gradually pushed religion into the background. The Soviet government quickly began anti-religious propaganda among the Muslim Tatars. One of the tools used was art in all its forms. Concerts and theatrical performances were organised in theatres, membership clubs and factories, where lectures and discussions on anti-Muslim themes were held. Religious holidays began to take on a secular character. The article considers the work of the Soviet government in the transition from the religious consciousness of Tsarist Russia to the anti-religious educational system of Muslim society in all its complexity through art, which became an ideological tool of anti-religious propaganda. Art in all its diversity (theatrical, printed (newspapers, magazines), poster, ceremonial and festive forms) became a lever for changing the consciousness of Muslim Tatars. During the study of archival, historical and factual materials devoted to the mentioned topic, it was possible to reconstruct information about the work of the Soviet government in the context of the cultural policy of the Yenisei province in the 1920–1930s.

We investigate the role of values in motivating the dissolution of marriage. Drawing on comprehensive value frameworks, we study how cultural values explain cross-national variation in divorce, how personal values explain further variation within nations, and how the two value systems interact together. In three archival studies, including more than 100,000 participants from over 55 countries, we study attitudes toward divorce as well as actual divorce. We found that divorce was more justifiable and likely in nations emphasizing autonomy values, and among individuals ascribing importance to self-direction, stimulation, and hedonism values. Divorce was less justifiable and likely in nations emphasizing embeddedness values, and among individuals ascribing importance to tradition and conformity values. Overall, the impact of personal values was stronger the more the culture emphasizes autonomy (vs. embeddedness) values. Understanding the role of values in divorce may inform individuals as to the values they desire in their future spouses.

This article analyses the Brandmorphosis™ of Teh Botol Sosro, a packaged tea beverage product. The approach used is Brandmorphosis™ analysis, which focuses on the brand's journey, evolution, and metamorphotic narrative. The Brandmorphosis™ analysis emphasizes understanding the brand's journey through significant moments. Using archival and artefactual studies, the results of the analysis show that in Brandmorphosis™ Narrative Analysis (BNA), Brandmorphosis™ Transformative Analysis (BTA), and Brandmorphosis™ Retrospective Analysis (BRA), consistent values, product authenticity, and strategic positioning were identified as critical factors in Teh Botol Sosro's success. The lessons learned from this biographical lens of Teh Botol Sosro include the significance of maintaining consistent brand values, adapting to changing market demands, fostering social engagement, and leveraging historical moments for future growth and success.