TY - JOUR
T1 - Using Born-Digital Archives for Business History
T2 - EMCODIST and the Case of E-Mail
AU - Kirsch, David
AU - Decker, Stephanie
AU - Nix, Adam
AU - Kuppili Venkata, Santhilata
PY - 2023/2/26
Y1 - 2023/2/26
N2 - Historians of business and management increasingly conduct research in digital archives. This article reviews some of the challenges and opportunities associated with the use of born-digital archives. As an example, we focus on scholarly use of large-scale organizational e-mail collections. In addition to allowing researchers to answer traditional questions about innovation, strategy and organizational development, e-mail also permits more granular investigation of new questions, such as those relating to the timing and flow of information inside organizational networks. Knowledge discovery in e-mail requires new search tools. We describe EMCODIST, a prototype tool that we have developed to support search and discovery in e-mail. Scholars interested in learning more are directed to a grant-funded website where versions of the EMCODIST tool support different types of searches.
AB - Historians of business and management increasingly conduct research in digital archives. This article reviews some of the challenges and opportunities associated with the use of born-digital archives. As an example, we focus on scholarly use of large-scale organizational e-mail collections. In addition to allowing researchers to answer traditional questions about innovation, strategy and organizational development, e-mail also permits more granular investigation of new questions, such as those relating to the timing and flow of information inside organizational networks. Knowledge discovery in e-mail requires new search tools. We describe EMCODIST, a prototype tool that we have developed to support search and discovery in e-mail. Scholars interested in learning more are directed to a grant-funded website where versions of the EMCODIST tool support different types of searches.
UR - https://www.tandfonline.com/journals/RMOR
U2 - 10.1080/17449359.2023.2183220
DO - 10.1080/17449359.2023.2183220
M3 - Article
SN - 1744-9359
JO - Management & Organizational History
JF - Management & Organizational History
ER -