We are proud to report our latest published research, which appears in a forthcoming Special Issue on the topic of 'Micro History' in the journal Management & Organizational History.
Using a scrapbook collated by FIFA football administrator Helmut Kaser, we explore an interesting adventure in his working life and add something on the literature of research methods.
Here is the abstract for the paper, the full article can be found here
Archival ethnography using microhistorical approaches has considerable untapped potential as a research approach in management and business history. We use a scrapbook compiled by the mid-twentieth century football administrator Dr Helmut Käser on a business trip to Northern Ireland and London in 1967 to illustrate the ethnographic potential of the emic perspective for narrating microhistorical cases. The scrapbook demonstrates Käser’s interaction with several contexts which have been understood very separately by historians on his journey and we illustrate how this rare window into business travel in the 1960s helps us to understand how they coexisted and were experienced by actors themselves embedded in global organizations. We can therefore ethnographically experience the world of the past through collections of documents and abstracts which at first might appear ephemeral. We conclude that archival ethnography based on microhistorical approaches has the potential to be a fruitful new avenue of research for management and business historians.
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| Helmut Kaser: FIFA Administrator |
