Purpose

The purpose of this paper is to reflect back over his career as a management and business historian so far as to consider opportunities for the future of management and business history as a disciplinary area.

Design/methodology/approach

The paper consists of two segments – the first half is an auto-ethnographic personal reflection looking at the author’s research journey and how the discipline as experienced by the author has evolved over that time. The second half is a prescriptive look forward to consider how we should leverage the strengths as historians to progress the discipline forward.

Findings

The paper demonstrates opportunities for management and business history to encompass new agendas including the expansion of the topic into teaching, the possibility for the advancement of empirical contributions and opportunities for findings in new research areas, including the global south and public and project management history.

Originality/value

The paper demonstrates that historians should be more confident in the disciplinary capabilities, particularly their understandings of historic context, continuity, change and chronologies when making empirical and theoretical contributions.

中文翻译：

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管理和商业历史– 2020年代反思性研究议程

目的

本文的目的是回顾他作为管理和商业历史学家的职业生涯，并考虑将管理和商业历史的未来作为学科领域的机会。

设计/方法/方法

该论文分为两个部分–上半部分是对民族志的自我反思，着眼于作者的研究历程以及作者所经历的学科在这段时间里是如何发展的。下半年是一种规范性的期望，考虑要如何利用历史学家的优势来推动学科的发展。

发现

本文展示了管理和商业历史的机会，其中包括新的议程，包括将该主题扩展到教学，提高经验贡献的可能性以及在新的研究领域（包括全球南方和公共及项目管理历史）中寻找发现的机会。

创意/价值

本文表明，历史学家在做出经验和理论贡献时，应该对学科的能力更有信心，尤其是他们对历史背景，连续性，变化和时间顺序的理解。