Historical perspective in management: new objects, new problems, new approaches

Abstract

This article attempts to contribute to a better understanding of administrative ideas through the analysis of the use of historical perspective in management studies. Although this relationship is not recent, it has not progressed substantially in order to promote all their ontological, epistemological and methodological potential. In order to deepen this discussion, we classify three management approaches relating them to the paradigmatic discussion of history: business history, management history and organizational history. This framework allows us to consider that the reorientationist position of the historical perspective enable us to: a) reflect on the social praxis of researchers, b) consider new objects, new problems and new research approaches, and c) realize that new questions displaces the focus of analysis of the exogenous to the local, which may contribute to the development of more critical analysis of current administrative ideologies.