History Of Organization Research Articles

School Culture Typology and Leadership in Ateneo De Iloilo

This descriptive study aims to determine the school culture typology and school leadership category of a Jesuit school, Ateneo de Iloilo. Using stratified random sampling, 76 teachers were asked to fill out two standardized instruments of the ASCD, namely: (a) School Culture Typology (SCT) worksheet and (b) School Culture Survey (SCS) sheet. Analysis of data was done using central tendencies and standard deviation. The SCT survey showed that the most dominant typology in Ateneo is the “collaborative” type of school culture. However, it also has a secondary blend of “contrived collegiality” and “comfortable collaboration.” “Collaborative” culture is found to be prevailing in the following areas: “decision making,” “openness,” “communication,” “socialization,” and “organizational history.” But results also showed that the school needs to further improve on areas of “trust” among teachers and “parent relations.” Meanwhile, the SCS survey revealed that the teachers “strongly agree” in the high level of “professional development” and “unity of purpose” in school. However, it was also found that teachers still need to develop more their “trust to each other” and to be more “open in discussing disagreements over instructional practices.” The administration must also be more aggressive in structurally giving space, reward, and recognition to curricular innovators. It is hereby recommended that the results of this study must cascade down to the teachers through school summits, institutional meetings, and PLCs for affirmation, dialogue, and reflection. Similar study may also be made with the other stakeholders of the school for triangulation.

History of organization of the specialized surgical aid to patients, suffering gastro–intestinal hemorrhage in the City of Dnipro

History of organization of the specialized surgical aid to patients, suffering gastro–intestinal hemorrhage in the City of Dnipro

Новые материалы к биографии Б. Н. Засыпкина

This article continues the author’s series of publications on the history of organization and participants of the studies in Eastern culture in the Crimea in the mid-1920s. A page of the expeditionary activities of the team of the Central State Restoration Workshops in the Crimea is revealed. This work was a part of large-scale archaeological and ethnographic expedition for the study of the Crimean Tatar monuments. It was commissioned and funded by the Crimean ASSR and carried out by researchers from the academic centres of the USSR. The article has analysed the participation of Boris Nikolaevich Zasypkin (1891–1955), a well-known restorer and the organizer of the archaeological monument protection in different regions of the USSR, in the study of the Crimean cultural heritage. It has introduced into the scholarship previously not known documents from the collections of the Central State Restoration Workshops now residing in the Moscow Central State Archives. These materials shed light on new aspects of the architect-restorer B. N. Zasypkin’s works in the Crimea in 1926 and 1927. The texts of Zasypkin’s reports on his works on the peninsula in 1926 are supplied. Informative but little-known letters of P. I. Chepurina, the head of Yevpatoria Archaeological and Ethnographic Museum, and K. E. Grinevich, the director of the State Museum of Tauric Chersonese, to B. N. Zasypkin uncover tough personal communications of the researchers of the Crimea and Zasypkin’s role in the said process. Zasypkin’s activities for the preservation of the museum in Yevpatoria has been demonstrated. He arranged the intercession of the museum existence and preservation of its storage from the Head of the Museum section of the Glavnauka (Supreme Administration of Scientific, Scientific-Artistic, and Museum Establishments) at the People’s Commissariat for Education of the RSFSR N. I. Sedova, the Head of the Glavnauka F. N. Petrov, and the Chair of the State Academy for the History of Material Culture N. Ia. Marr. The Central State Restoration Workshops’ expedition under the supervision of I. E. Grabar to the peninsula has been reconstructed. It included the head of the Commission for the Preservation and Discovery of Ancient Paintings in Russia and the art historian A. I. Anisimov, the restorer G. O. Chirikov, and the photographer A. V. Liadov. The 1927 expedition was aimed at the inspection of architectural monuments where paintings survived and the development of necessary measures to protect and maintain these architectural sites. Zasypkin’s work for the recording of Chersonese monuments has been shown.

LOCAL HISTORY ORGANIZATIONS IN STAVROPOL IN THE 1920S: ON THE 100TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE PATRIOTIC LOCAL HISTORY MOVEMENT

The article studies the history of local history of Stavropol Territory and the North Caucasus in the 1920s, the period of formation of local history in the country. The purpose of the study is to restore the history of the first local history organizations and institutions in the Stavropol Territory based on documents from central and regional archives, museum collections, to identify their role in national history, culture, the development of scientific knowledge, and the preservation of historical and cultural heritage. For the first time, based on documentary heritage the role of the Stavropol Ethnological and Archaeological Commission in the development of the local history movement not only in Stavropol, but also in the North Caucasus is shown. The main activities of the ethnological and archaeological commission for the ethnographic study of the Stavropol province, the Kalmyks, the Nogais, the Turkmens, Russian settlers, German colonists living in it are analyzed; archaeological research of the region in order to identify, fix and register ancient monuments; cultural and protective activities; educational work with the population; archaeographic and archival research. The role of the Stavropol Ethnological and Archaeological Commission in coordinating local lore forces in the study of the North Caucasus region, establishing close scientific contacts with local historians of Krasnodar, Vladikavkaz, Rostov-on-Don, Nalchik, Pyatigorsk is shown. The article introduces the sources related to the activities of G.N. Prozritelev, one of the founders of the Stavropol Museum-Reserve of Local Lore, a well-known public figure and Caucasian scholar of the late 19th - early 20th centuries. The study shows how the system of local history organizations took shape in the North Caucasus, the role played by the Central Bureau of Local History (CBLH) formed in 1922, which contributed to the beginning of the ―golden decade‖ in the history of local history.

Remembering and Forgetting by Means of Subject Headings: A Contribution to the History of Knowledge Organization

In the last 30 years, historical research has intensively focused on early modern practice of note-taking and the compilation of commonplace-books. In this respect, headings choice is a still poorly investigated theme. This choice is crucial for the organization of access to information when knowledge is stored in external repositories. In this paper, I would like to show that early modern learned men addressed this technical problem and tried somehow to tackle it. By means of sources mostly from the 17th century, I show that scholars formulated both theoretical and practical rules to create a working indexing system as a tool to discriminate between remembering and forgetting. My hypothesis, in this respect, is that the novelty in the choice of subject headings for early modern commonplace-books and filing cabinets lies in the fact that subject headings became a choice. This paved the way to an epoch-making transition from a universal topics to a universal index upon all authors.

The prevalence of communication. A case study in the communication history of the International Labour Organisation (ILO)

Organisations are – as communication studies know – constituted through communication. Against this theoretical background, the International Labour Organisation (ILO), which was founded in 1919 after the end of the First World War as a sub-organisation of the League of Nations, is examined here. It came into being in the course of the Versailles peace negotiations with the aim of harmonising the rules and standards of labour internationally and creating common standards for this purpose. The primary function of the ILO was to collect and disseminate information and communication on labour conditions in the world in order to adopt conventions and make recommendations on the basis of this information (e.g., on daily working hours, night work, women’s and children’s work, etc.). The external constitution and the internal structure of the organisation were designed for this. The prevalence of the ILO’s communication is also confirmed by the considerable communication costs and the wide range of communication instruments it used. Methodologically, this is a hermeneutic examination of the sources produced by the ILO in the process of its foundation and establishment. The organisation documented and archived its activities extensively from the beginning.

Ego-documents in management and organizational history

ABSTRACT The vibrant exchange between history and organization studies has triggered major debates on engaging historiography and theorizing with history. By comparison, studies of historical methods have received less attention. We argue that one missing debate concerns different typologies of sources, which facilitate systematic comparative analysis and interpretation. Specifically, we introduce the category ‘ego-documents’, which we define as ‘sources that reveal the historical self as a thinking and feeling being in the world (agency in structure) or unveil the impact of social norms and relationships on the historical self (structure in agency).’ We review the history of the term ego-documents and debate the virtues and challenges of using it in management and organizational history. We then distinguish four uses of ego-documents and explicate their sources and purposes based on articles published in Management and Organizational History.

Elaine Black Yoneda: Jewish Immigration, Labor Activism, and Japanese Exclusion and Incarceration by Rachel Schreiber (review)

Reviewed by: Elaine Black Yoneda: Jewish Immigration, Labor Activism, and Japanese Exclusion and Incarceration by Rachel Schreiber Paul C. Mishler (bio) Elaine Black Yoneda: Jewish Immigration, Labor Activism, and Japanese Exclusion and Incarceration. By Rachel Schreiber. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2022. xi + 215 pp. This biography of Elaine Black Yoneda joins many other studies of radical activists that have explored individual lives rather than organizational histories or studies of radical ideologies. The author, Rachel Schreiber, is a dean at the Parsons School of Design in New York, and her earlier work was in art history, especially printmaking in the radical movement in the United States. She "discovered" Elaine Black Yoneda when she was asked to curate a historical exhibition on Jewish life in California. In her introduction Schreiber details the multiple tendencies in the writing of history that she draws on to produce this portrait of a remarkable woman. She names the "new biography" as a way to flesh out the lived experiences of individuals who may figure in organizational or social histories, but only as types. Then she talks about the contributions of women's history and the ways it has offered us a historical perspective that highlights both gender inequality and oppression and can bring to life the experiences of women who have been neglected previously. Finally, she draws on the multi-ethnic history of California and details her subject's position at the intersection of these three narrative traditions. It is a marvelous book not only because it brings to a larger audience the life of Elaine Black Yoneda and grounds it in clear writing and broad knowledge of the kinds of historical explorations that have informed her research. Importantly, it can also be read by someone who knows little about the scholarly literature on, for example, left-wing Jewish immigrants and their families. Similarly, Schreiber's discussions of class and ethnicity in California during the first half of the twentieth century; issues around anti-Japanese war-time incarceration; and complicated debates within the Japanese and Japanese American community are all done so well that any reader will understand the multiple strands of history that informed Elaine Black Yoneda's life. It is both supremely well-researched and scholarly and accessible. Elaine Black Yoneda was a significant figure in the Communist Party in California. She was born in 1906 to immigrant Jewish radicals in New York City. Her father became quite successful as the owner of dry-goods store in Boyle Heights, Los Angeles, where she grew up. While her parents were Communists themselves, their daughter initially showed little interest in radical politics. She was, by her own account, more interested in expensive dresses and fancy restaurants, an early iteration of what has become known as a "valley girl." Elaine Black's life changed when she was arrested by accident at a workers' demonstration and was outraged by the police brutality she [End Page 416] witnessed. As a result, she attended the March 6, 1930, demonstration that had been organized by the Community Party, in response to the crisis caused by the onset of the Great Depression. She became an activist for the International Labor Defense (ILD), the CPUSA legal defense organization, quickly becoming a leader of the ILD in California. It was in this capacity that Elaine Black met Karl Yoneda, a Japanese American Communist. She was delivering bail money after Karl and others had been arrested at a workers' demonstration. It was "love at first sight" for both of them. The high point of this period in her life is when she became the only woman on the Executive Committee of the 1934 San Francisco General Strike representing the ILD. The second period of Elaine's life was after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor in December of 1941. As the United States moved toward war with Japan, Japanese and Japanese Americans were told to leave the West Coast because they were all deemed security risks. They were forced from their homes and jobs and resettled in barren camps away from the West Coast. Karl was sent to Manzanar War Relocation Camp in eastern California near the Nevada border. Elaine decided that she, along with...

The Soviet Writers' Union and Its Leaders: Identity and Authority under Stalin by Carol Any

Reviewed by: The Soviet Writers' Union and Its Leaders: Identity and Authority under Stalin by Carol Any Polly Jones Any, Carol. The Soviet Writers' Union and Its Leaders: Identity and Authority under Stalin. Studies in Russian Literature and Theory. Northwestern University Press, Evanston, IL, 2020. xiv + 318 pp. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $120.00; $39.95. The Soviet Writers' Union was the main institution of Soviet literature from the early 1930s to the regime's collapse. Membership granted considerable privileges and imposed heavy obligations; it was one of the main determinants of Soviet-era writers' economic and political status. Despite its central role in twentieth-century literary history, however, the union has received scant scholarly attention in its own right. It is well-known that Writers' Union decision-making had decisive impacts on many authors' lives, and there now exist substantial collections of union archive documents, but analyses of the union's institutional history remain thin on the ground. John and Carol Garrard's classic study, which could draw on only limited Russian sources and focused more on writers' experiences than the union's organizational history, has until recently been the standard work in English. A handful of studies have [End Page 753] also appeared more recently in Russian, including excellent research on the litfond and union-run writers' accommodation. Carol Any's thorough history of the union, based on a huge amount of Soviet archive material, therefore represents a major step forward in our understanding of the institutional and political history of Soviet literature. Firstly, it offers by far the most detailed and nuanced account of the emergence of Stalinist literary culture to date (its final chapter offers a briefer overview of post-Stalinist developments). Much of the first half of the book is devoted to a detailed reconstruction of the union's emergence from the gruppovshchina of the 1920s and its institutionalization and organization in the 1930s. Any proves more conclusively than previous studies that the union was initially and widely preferred to proletarian literary organizations, because writers and leaders considered it more tolerant and less politicized. However, hopes for an inclusive, diverse Soviet literature were soon scuppered by the clear (though not always clearly articulated) desire of the party elite to control writers: aesthetically, politically, and in almost every other aspect of their lives. Particularly interesting is the rich account of Maksim Gor´kii's disillusionment with this direction of travel in the early 1930s, even as he still appeared to wield substantial influence over Soviet literature, Socialist Realism and the union itself. Despite their collaboration on creating the union and the state aesthetic doctrine, Gor´kii and Stalin were at odds almost from the start, and it was Stalin's (and the Politburo's) vision of literary controls that won out early on. This desire for control would continue to shape all key decisions on union personnel and policy, which are shown here as even more top-down than previously thought. Alongside this persuasive recasting of Gor´kii's role, the book also devotes unprecedented attention to other leading figures in the organization who have been strangely (or perhaps not so strangely) overlooked: Ivan Gronskii, Aleksandr Shcherbakov, Vladimir Ermilov and Vladimir Stavskii. Comparing them with the better-known union leader Aleksandr Fadeev, and drawing on a wide range of little-known personal and institutional sources, Any explores their intrigues and in-fighting as they led the union through Stalinist Terror, war and recurrent ideological campaigns. While these stories of union politics are richly fascinating, the conclusions drawn from them seem more familiar. Stalinist literary politics appears as a 'force-field' of top-down political pressures where even (or especially) union heads had 'limited agency'. At the same time, these bosses had to manoeuvre constantly to stay in the good graces of the party leadership and within the 'honour group' of the Soviet literary world. The overwhelming need to profess political loyalty entailed repeated betrayals of previously (and often sincerely) held positions on writers and their works, and literary policy. While these contradictory stances were illogical, the [End Page 754] literary system possessed and reproduced a distinct behavioural logic. As Any contends, such behaviour proved morally and...

Dreamscapes of World Health: The History of the World Health Organization

Dreamscapes of World Health: The History of the World Health Organization

The Evolution of Management Thought: reflections on narrative structure

PurposeThis paper aims to problematize the dominant narrative forms of disciplinary histories of management thought. Specifically, the authors explore the narrative mode of emplotment used in Wren’s (and later Wren and Bedeian’s) 50-year encyclical on the history of management thought, namely, The Evolution of Management Thought (EMT).Design/methodology/approachThe authors propose that management histories operate as powerful narratives that shape our understanding of management thought and, consequently, our disciplinary futures. This paper explores the textual narrative of EMT. Additional data are drawn from other scholars’ observations of this text. This paper is positioned in the debates of management history.FindingsWhile acknowledging the wealth of historical facts in EMT, the authors argue that the umbrella narrative orders events of the past in such a manner that the historical knowledge follows a form of Darwinian evolutionism. Thus, the narrative leads to problematic representations suffering from progressivism, presentism and universalism.Research limitations/implicationsDisciplinary scholars in management and organization studies need to carefully reflect on how we construct our representations of the past and histories. This will allow us to better craft transparent and reflexive histories.Originality/valueTo the best of the authors’ knowledge, this paper is the first to propose a remedy, albeit a partial remedy, which we believe is needed to avoid adverse epistemological consequences associated with the use of problematic narratives in management and organizational histories.

From Individualized Interactions to Standardized Schedules: A History of Time Organization in U.S. Outpatient Medicine.

Many outpatient physicians and patients feel that current scheduling systems do not afford enough time for direct patient-physician interaction, leaving patients feeling unheard and physicians feeling demoralized. This dissatisfaction degrades patients' trust in the health care system and contributes to workforce moral injury and burnout. In the hopes of understanding the roots of this time stress and helping to guide future decisions about how to organize physicians' time, this article describes changes in the organization of U.S. outpatient physicians' time, starting from care at home in the late 19th century. It discusses the origins of the appointment system, which was invented to be highly personalized, with assistants adjusting appointment durations to accommodate clinical activities, specific patient needs, and individual physician proclivities. The article then describes how centralization of appointment scheduling became more common as U.S. medicine became increasingly consolidated into larger and larger groups and health systems. This distanced schedulers from the people and care they were organizing and necessitated standardized appointment durations, which did not accommodate individual patient and physician needs. With the rise of managerialism, schedulers became increasingly accountable to administrators rather than patients and physicians. Whereas early appointment systems depended on personal connection between schedulers and the physicians and patients they supported, today's schedulers have few such interactions. The widespread shift to centralized scheduling and standardized time slots has contributed to misalignment among time allocation, patient care, and health care workforce well-being and is likely exacerbating ongoing tensions among patients, physicians, and administrators.

Rethinking Research in the Chemical Industry: Organizational History of Centre de Recherches d’Aubervilliers (1953‒2020)

Solvay’s Centre de Recherches d’Aubervilliers (CRA) is one of the oldest active private-sector research centers in industrial chemistry in France. During the seventy years of its existence it collaborated with some of the most significant French and European chemical companies. Established in 1953, the center’s research and development organization around huge discipline-oriented laboratories proved itself remarkably resilient. Not merely reflecting the R&D policy of the company that owned it at a given moment, the evolution of the center’s research organization followed its own particular path. The research priorities in any given moment were always a place of encounter between top-down requirements of the company’s directorship, and bottom-up thematic trajectories. The CRA’s organizational history gives us unique insights into broader tendencies in chemical research in the second half of the 20th century, such as specialization of laboratories, introduction of market-driven research as well as decentralization and multiplication of hierarchies. The case study can be of interest to historians of science, due to the fact that the history of private research centers remains largely understudied, and to science policy scholars who want to understand the interconnectedness of factors that influence the organization of R&D structures in an institution.

Beyond Hoover. Rewriting the History of the Commission for Relief in Belgium (CRB) through Female Involvement

The Commission for Relief in Belgium (CRB) was among the largest and most prominent humanitarian undertakings of the First World War. From October 1914 to mid-1919, the American-led organization provided one billion dollars’ worth of food aid (unadjusted) to Belgium and Northern France, saving about nine million civilians from slow starvation. Though fairly well-known, the history of this remarkable organization and the relief of Belgium more generally is usually told from a near exclusively male and American perspective, focusing on the CRB’s director and later U.S. president, Herbert Hoover, and a small group of American volunteers. This article challenges this conventional narrative by exploring the involvement of women in the CRB’s vast humanitarian operations. It highlights their essential roles as symbolic victims, fundraisers and relief workers. In so doing, it exposes a very different side of the relief of Belgium, raising broader questions about why female involvement was omitted or forgotten in the first place, and about who is assigned the noble epithet of ‘humanitarian’. As the history of humanitarianism—a buzzing field of late—matures, it seems especially important to ponder these issues.

SOME ASPECTS OF THE ACTIVITIES OF THE KYIV SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF FORENSIC EXPERTISE’S EMPLOYEES IN VARIOUS POLITICAL AND SOCIAL CONDITIONS (1913-2022)

The article deals with some aspects of the history of the existence and development of the Kyiv Scientific Research Institute of Forensic Expertise, the historical personalities of its employees, their dedication, and heroic work. The history is multifaceted. It always directly combines the history of the State itself with the history of organizations, institutions, enterprises, and other institutions that contribute to its functioning, and, in general, to prosperity. In turn, the fruitful work of the employees, and their achievements in science and practice are a contribution to history that cannot be forgotten. Life goes on and there are always fields for achievement. Key words: forensic examination, history of the Kyiv Scientific Research Insti tute of Forensic Expertise, historical employees of the Kyiv Scientific Research Institute of Forensic Expertise.

Is there a strategic organization in the behavioral theory of the firm? Looking back and looking forward

In the 20 years of Strategic Organization, how well has knowledge drawn from the behavioral theory of the firm contributed to the field of strategy? We see progress both in the pages of SO! and elsewhere in the field of strategy, but this progress has been held back by divisions between strategy and organization theory in what theories should predict, what mechanisms are preferable predictors, and what outcomes are of interest. Despite these divisions, the last few years have seen particularly rapid progress, turning the behavioral theory of the firm into one of multiple organization theory sources of strategy knowledge. It is time to reassess and consider the best future direction, and we propose a framework organized around how strategy is shaped by the (1) organizational structure, (2) organizational decision makers, (3) organizational history, and (4) organizational environment. This subdivision captures the decision-making units in the theory (1–2), the importance of experience (3), and the role of context (4). We outline fruitful research topics based on this framework.

The dynamics of Leveraging Organization History During Strategic Transformation

Reference to the organizational history is an essential part of how managers determine what actions an organization should take in the present and future. However, prior research does not explain how references to different periods of the organization’s past are associated with different types of strategic transformation initiatives. In our longitudinal study of Ericsson, we explore various ways in which an incumbent firm can leverage its past through history frames to facilitate strategic transformation and legitimize nascent strategies. Our framework illustrates how a combination of environmental and organizational contextual factors influence the interpretation of organizational decision-makers and how they can accordingly frame the organization’s recent and distant past in their communications. Our findings reveal mechanisms through which senior managers can shape stakeholders’ understanding of change to navigate the tension between continuity and change.

Birthmark Effect: Founder Status and Firm Survival in Revolutionary Russia, 1861-1914

Status research typically assumes that status hierarchy is legitimate and stable, but this assumption may not hold during social revolutions which destabilize political, economic, and social institutions. We predict that, during revolutionary times, businesses whose founders are linked to a declining “power elite” group have higher failure rates than businesses without such a “status birthmark.” Moreover, this status birthmark effect is stronger for larger businesses whose resources and salient identity could become their liability. We tested these hypotheses by examining business survival in late Imperial Russia (1861-1914), one of the major revolutionary times in world history. Results show that firms whose founders were from the declining “power elites” (nobles, government officials, and military officers) were more likely to fail during this period than other status groups (e.g., merchants), and this risk was stronger for larger firms. Our study highlights how a once coveted status symbol may become a liability for businesses during radical institutional changes. Keywords: Status; Founder; Social Revolution; Institutional Change; Organizational History

Viral Complexity.

Although traditionally viewed as streamlined and simple, discoveries over the last century have revealed that viruses can exhibit surprisingly complex physical structures, genomic organization, ecological interactions, and evolutionary histories. Viruses can have physical dimensions and genome lengths that exceed many cellular lineages, and their infection strategies can involve a remarkable level of physiological remodeling of their host cells. Virus–virus communication and widespread forms of hyperparasitism have been shown to be common in the virosphere, demonstrating that dynamic ecological interactions often shape their success. And the evolutionary histories of viruses are often fraught with complexities, with chimeric genomes including genes derived from numerous distinct sources or evolved de novo. Here we will discuss many aspects of this viral complexity, with particular emphasis on large DNA viruses, and provide an outlook for future research.

The Bidirectional Construction of Institution-Identification and the Formation of Local Christian Churches in China

Abstract The organizational history of Zhabei Church over its one hundred years is a tale of universal Christianity evolving its local form through the bidirectional construction of institution-identification in Chinese society. In this process, its core Biblical theological principles and basic modes of worship have maintained a high degree of stability, but its affiliation, organizational structure, and operational mode have undergone significant changes. Study of the sociology of the evolution of Zhabei Church reveals a bidirectional construction process of institution-identification, which is different from simple transplantation of the Western Christian model and not directly affected by conflict-adaptation logic. This kind of bidirectional construction has become the driving force for the development of Zhabei Church and has thus produced a new form of local church, which roots Chinese Christianity deeply in China’s local socio-cultural network and has transformed her “Christian capital” into a resource for social and cultural identification.