Author: Kroeze Ronald Keulen Sjoerd
Publisher: Routledge Ltd
ISSN: 0007-6791
Source: Business History, Vol.55, Iss.8, 2013-11, pp. : 1265-1287
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Abstract
This article states that the distinctiveness of business history and its convincingness can be improved by the concept of invented tradition and narrative. After a theoretical overview it suggests that the narrative approach explains the way leaders operate in practice. It argues that with a narrative approach one sees that history is used by business leaders in four different ways: as a source to create traditions and symbols as means of communication, as a way to understand and strengthen the identity of the organisation, as means to create corporate memory and as a tool to connect past, present and future. The examples are taken from a Dutch oral history project on management behaviour at multinationals.
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