Purpose: This paper aims to outline the possibilities of intersectional history as a novel method for management history. Intersectional history combines intersectionality and the study of the past to examine discrimination in organizations over time. This paper explores the need for...

Purpose – Through a case study of Pan American World Airways (Pan Am), this paper sets out to explore the roots of twentieth century globalization and the postcolonial nature of the trading relations involved. Design/methodology/approach – Drawing on Foucault's broad notion of “the...

Purpose The aim of this article is to encourage critical scholars of international business (IB) to engage with scholarship that turns to practice and situates knowledges. The paper contends that such undertakings have the potential to constructively politicize research in the field of...

Purpose The editorial introduces the special issue entitled, “Voices at/from the margins: Articulating the consequences of international business”. Design/methodology/approach The editorial begins by briefly describing how the idea for the special issue was initiated and then provides an...

Purpose: This paper features a critique of the treatment of time in modern and postmodern historical organization studies. The authors reply to the critique by drawing on Lefebvre’s notion of rhythm to theorize time in an amodern condition. The purpose of this study is to call on historical...

Purpose: This paper aims to explore the turn in management and organization studies (MOS) and reflect on “history as theory” versus “history as method”. Design/methodology/approach: Looking at previous research and the evolution of MOS, this paper situates the special issue papers in...