D. Kirsch, S. Decker, Adam Nix, Shubhangkar Girish Jain, Santhilatha Kuppili Venkata
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Abstract
ABSTRACT Historians of business and management increasingly conduct research in digital archives. This article reviews some of the challenges and opportunities associated with the use of born-digital archives. As an example, we focus on scholarly use of large-scale organizational e-mail collections. In addition to allowing researchers to answer traditional questions about innovation, strategy and organizational development, e-mail also permits more granular investigation of new questions, such as those relating to the timing and flow of information inside organizational networks. Knowledge discovery in e-mail requires new search tools. We describe EMCODIST, a prototype tool that we have developed to support search and discovery in e-mail. Scholars interested in learning more are directed to a grant-funded website where versions of the EMCODIST tool support different types of searches.
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Management & Organizational History (M&OH) is a quarterly, peer-reviewed journal that aims to publish high quality, original, academic research concerning historical approaches to the study of management, organizations and organizing. The journal addresses issues from all areas of management, organization studies, and related fields. The unifying theme of M&OH is its historical orientation. The journal is both empirical and theoretical. It seeks to advance innovative historical methods. It facilitates interdisciplinary dialogue, especially between business and management history and organization theory. The ethos of M&OH is reflective, ethical, imaginative, critical, inter-disciplinary, and international, as well as historical in orientation.
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