Oral history

Dorota Marsh and Martyna Śliwa

Chapter 116 in Elgar Encyclopedia of Historical Organisation Studies, 2026, pp 412-414 from Edward Elgar Publishing

Abstract: Oral history, a method of collecting and interpreting personal commentaries, serves as a valuable tool in historical organisation studies (HOS). Traditionally used to preserve individual testimonies, oral history research in HOS is conducted through extended in-depth interviews underpinned by a participant-centric approach. It can be applied to create publicly available historical sources (via non-anonymised interviews) or to generate research data (via anonymised interviews) for specific projects. While offering emancipatory potential, oral history demands ethical sensitivity to the interviewer-interviewee power dynamics and to the risk of reinforcing hegemonic ideologies. Studies such as Haynes (2010), Śliwa and Taylor (2011), Peticca-Harris et al. (2020) and Giacomin and Jones (2022) exemplify its application and highlight its capacity to enrich organisational research.

Keywords: Ethical sensitivity; In-depth life history interviews; Marginalised voices; Participant-centric approach (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2026
ISBN: 9781035332922
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