Official documents

Isabela da Silva Pontes

Chapter 115 in Elgar Encyclopedia of Historical Organisation Studies, 2026, pp 408-411 from Edward Elgar Publishing

Abstract: This entry presents an official document definition, incorporating a broader vision while addressing specific issues related to state-produced official records. It highlights that such documents reflect state ideologies and function as material representations of the relationship between the state and its population. Accordingly, it is essential to recognise official documents as socially constructed artefacts embedded within and constitutive of broader sociopolitical systems. Furthermore, this discussion emphasises the particular significance of official documents in historical organisation studies, where scholars have increasingly utilised them in analytical processes. Thus, this entry presents examples of how this topic has increasingly become an object of study within the field.

Keywords: Official documents; Government documents; Public documents; Documents (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2026
ISBN: 9781035332922
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