Historical Research in Management: a Proposal for Research Practices
Since the last decade, the use of History has been consolidating as a legitimate perspective in research in the field of Administration in general and in Organizational Studies in a more specific way. However, in spite of the maturation, this type of research still needs to be explained more about c...
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Published in | Administração (São Paulo) Vol. 20; no. 1 |
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Main Authors | , |
Format | Journal Article |
Language | Portuguese |
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Associacao Nacional dos Cursos de Graduacao em Administracao - ANGRAD
01.01.2019
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Summary: | Since the last decade, the use of History has been consolidating as a legitimate perspective in research in the field of Administration in general and in Organizational Studies in a more specific way. However, in spite of the maturation, this type of research still needs to be explained more about concepts and procedures that allow the operationalization of Historical research within the field of Administration. In this sense, this article aims to discuss the paths of Historical Research in Administration as a research method, aiming to elucidate the concept of historical research and historical method. In order to reach this goal, we seek to revisit the historical research in administration and then discuss three main guiding concepts of historical research: historical fact, sources and historical documents and historical operation, inserted within a path and methodological operationalization considering the different stages of historical research and its particularities. With this discussion, we intend to open the way for researchers in the area of administration to assume a critical and reflexive action capable of breaking with traditional thinking that perceives organizations as static structures, regular and constituted from causal relationships whose universal laws and standards seek to explain and predict, historically, what happens in the social world. KEYWORDS: Historical research; research method; qualitative research; historical method; historical source. Desde a ultima decada, o uso da Historia vem se consolidando como uma perspectiva legitima nas pesquisas no campo da Administracao, de forma geral, e nos Estudos Organizacionais de forma mais especifica. Entretanto, apesar do amadurecimento, esse tipo de pesquisa ainda carece de maiores explicacoes a respeito de conceitos e procedimentos que possibilitem a operacionalizacao da pesquisa historica dentro do campo da Administracao. Nesse sentido, este artigo tem como objetivo discutir os caminhos da Pesquisa Historica em Administracao como metodo de pesquisa. Para atingir esse objetivo, procuramos revisitar a retomada da pesquisa historica em Administracao para, em seguida, discutir tres dos principais conceitos norteadores da pesquisa historica: fato historico, fontes e documentos historicos e a operacao historica, inseridos em um percurso e operacionalizacao metodologica, considerando as diferentes etapas da pesquisa historica e suas particularidades. Pretendemos, com essa discussao, abrir caminhos para que pesquisadores da area de Administracao possam assumir uma atuacao critica e reflexiva capaz de romper com o pensamento tradicional que percebe as organizacoes como estruturas estaticas, regulares e constituidas a partir de relacionamentos causais cujos padroes e leis universais buscam explicar e predizer, historicamente, o que acontece no mundo social. PALAVRAS-CHAVE: Pesquisa historica; metodo de pesquisa; pesquisa qualitativa; metodo historico; fonte historica. |
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ISSN: | 2177-6083 2358-0917 |
DOI: | 10.13058/raep.2019.v20n1.1104 |