Rhetorical History as Institutional Work

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dc.contributor.authorSuddaby, Roy
dc.contributor.authorIsraelsen, Trevor
dc.contributor.authorBastien, Francois
dc.contributor.authorSaylors, Rohny
dc.contributor.authorCoraiola, Diego
dc.date.accessioned2023-04-29T18:07:29Z
dc.date.available2023-04-29T18:07:29Z
dc.date.copyright2023en_US
dc.date.issued2023
dc.description.abstractRhetorical history has emerged as a useful theoretical construct that bridges the long recognized gap between historical and organizational scholarship. Despite its growing popularity, the precise nature of rhetorical history as a construct, its scope conditions, and its utility in resolving critical issues in historical organizational analysis remains unclear. This paper addresses these issues. We define rhetorical history and contextualize the construct by elaborating its relationship to associated concepts like collective memory, rhetoric, and narrative. We ground the construct by reviewing literature that has applied rhetorical history in both theory and empirical research. Our inductive review identifies four recurring themes in which rhetorical history is used to construct perceptions of; (a) continuity and discontinuity, (b) similarity and difference, (c) winners and losers, and (d) morality and immorality. We conclude with a discussion of how rhetorical history is an essential mechanism of institutional work.en_US
dc.description.reviewstatusUnrevieweden_US
dc.description.scholarlevelFacultyen_US
dc.identifier.citationSuddaby, R., et. al. (2023). Rhetorical History as Institutional Work, Journal of Management Studies, 60(1), 242-27. https://doi.org/10.1111/joms.12860.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://doi.org/10.1111/joms.12860
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1828/15067
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherJournal of Management Studiesen_US
dc.subjectrhetorical historyen_US
dc.subjectcollective memoryen_US
dc.subjectinstitutional worken_US
dc.subjectsocial-symbolic resourcesen_US
dc.subjecthistoryen_US
dc.subject.departmentPeter B. Gustavson School of Business
dc.titleRhetorical History as Institutional Worken_US
dc.typePreprinten_US

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