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The longue durée perspective, which was largely missing from the 2012 Organizations, Artefacts and Practices Workshop (OAP), was themed for 2013 by the conceptual blending of “time and history”. However, the analysis of organizations post-1945 suggests at least two distinct communities of practitioners. One community anchored mainly in the United States and the Netherlands espouses the organizational agenda initiated by March and Simon (1958) which places history in a special container. That agenda soon addressed homogenous spectrums of time and the role of artefacts in shaping practice. The other agenda is anchored in France where distinct interpretations of the trade of history are evident (e.g., Nora, 1989). Hence, the oeuvre of Crozier (1957–1970s), which was contemporary to March and Simon, illustrates how mixing a historical explanation of national time regimes expresses the disconnected state of time reckoning and history in organization studies.
“… we see potential in the exploration of long-term dynamics”
— Mitev and de Vaujany, OAP workshops 2012 & 2013
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Clark, P. (2014). Epilogue: Strategic Coordination Information Technologies and Europe-USA’s Organizations: Time-and-History Regimes in Refolding Long-Term Elective Affinities. In: de Vaujany, FX., Mitev, N., Laniray, P., Vaast, E. (eds) Materiality and Time. Technology, Work and Globalization. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137432124_13
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