What is it about?
The paper reconstructs the history of the Academy of Management using an ANTi-History approach. This involves examining the actor networks through which knowledge of the past is produced
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Why is it important?
The paper reveals the problem of history-making and its privileging of certain actors and events over others. It peeks behind the scenes of the Academy of Management to reveal history as a kind of Wizard of OZ actor, viz a small man with a large megaphone!
Perspectives
This paper introduces the method of ANTi-History and the difficulty and challenges of applying it. It does this through analysis of histories of the Academy of Management.
Professor Albert James Mills
Saint Mary's University
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This page is a summary of: History-making and the Academy of Management: an ANTi-History perspective, Management & Organizational History, November 2013, Taylor & Francis,
DOI: 10.1080/17449359.2013.821662.
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