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Enterprise and Society Advance Access originally published online on September 25, 2009
Enterprise and Society 2009 10(4):791-807; doi:10.1093/es/khp031
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© The Author 2009. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the Business History Conference. All rights reserved. For permissions, please e-mail: journals.permissions@oxfordjournals.org.

History, a Useful "Science" for Management? From Polemics to Controversies1

Eric Godelier

ERIC GODELIER is Professor of Business History and Management Sciences and Dean of the Humanities and Social Sciences Department at École Polytechnique

Contact information: École Polytechnique, Route de Saclay, 91128 Palaiseau cedex, France. E-mail: eric.godelier{at}polytechnique.edu.

The aim of this essay is to analyze the way management sciences and practices use history or at least the kind of research which they define as history. This reflection will lead to discussing the possibility and the opportunity that an historical approach might have in creating management knowledge, especially "workable" know-how. A quick look at present-day exchanges between the two communities could lead us to the conclusion that there were tensions in the past that have not entirely evaporated. Might they explain the relative modesty of the dialogue, at least in France?

He is on the editorial committee of Entreprises et Histoire. The books he authored include Usinor-Arcelor. Du local au Global and La culture d’entreprise. He has launched a five-year chair on multicultural management sponsored by the French car company Renault.

The author thanks Mrs. Geraldine Raymond for her help on this text.


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